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Gene Functional Networks and Protein Interactomics

Data-driven Science: SGI for Genomics Analysis

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SATELLITE DAY 1 - October 27th

Start Time End Time Session Type
9:00 PM 5:00 PM Latin American Student Council Symposium
Auditorium A3, Ground Floor, ICB
3:00 PM 6:00 PM Life Ion Torrent NGS Workshop
Dale Yuzuky, Ion Torrent
Genetics Department Auditorium, B2 Room 162, ICB
9:00 PM 5:00 PM PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center workshop featuring data and analysis tools for bacterial pathogens
Bioinformatics Department Auditorium, F2 room 254, ICB
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break, By Auditorium A3
12:00 PM  1:00 PM Lunch, By Auditorium A3
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break, By Auditorium A3

DAY 1 - October 28th
Start Time End Time Session Type
8:40 AM 9:00 AM Opening Welcome and Conference Overview (Burkhard Rost, Guilherme Oliveira)
CAD1 Auditorium
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Keynote: Insights from the sequencing of ancient genomes
Janet Kelso, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany (Burkhard Rost)
CAD1 Auditorium
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break
CAD 1 Atrium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Poster Flash Presentations: Functional Genomics + Pathogen informatics + Systems Biology and Networks (Lucia Peixoto)

-Modeling Senescence Onset: Application to Astrocyte Cells in Alzheimer´s Disease
José Carlos Mombach, UFSM, Brazil
-Functional Analysis of Alternative Isoform Expression Using Long Read Technologies
Ana Conesa, CIPF, Spain
-Evolutionary genomics of Staphylococcus aureus adaptation to human and animal hosts
Ross Fitzgerald, Univ. Edinburgh, UK
-Integrated omics analysis of leaf senescence in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
Paula Fernandez, INTA, Argentina
Reitoria Auditorium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Oral Presentations, BMC Genomics Track: 

-Novel therapeutics for coronary artery disease from genome-wide association study data
Mani Grover, Deakin Univ., Australia
-Analyse multiple disease subtypes and build associated gene networks using genome-wide expression profiles
Javier De Las Rivas, CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL, Spain
-Revisiting molecular serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Roney Coimbra, FIOCRUZ, Brazil
CAD1 Auditorium
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch Break
CAD 1 Atrium
1:00 PM 1:30 PM Industry Tech Talk: SGI
Data-driven Science: SGI for Genomics Analysis
James Reaney (Floriano Silva Jr. / André Gardinalli)
CAD1 Auditorium
1:30 PM 2:00 PM Industry Tech Talk: Thomson Reuters
Connecting the Dots: Information Management to Convert Big Data into Big Decisions
Antero Macedo (Alan Durham)
CAD1 Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM BSB Flash Presentations (Maria Emilia Machado Telles Walter)

-On the multichromosomal Hultman number
Pedro Feijão, Bielefeld Univ., Germany
-Dynamic Programming for Set Data Types
Peter Stadler, Univ. Leipzig, Germany
-Scaffolding of Ancient Contigs and Ancestral Reconstruction in a Phylogenetic Framework
Nina Luhmann, Bielefeld Univ., Germany
-Quality metrics for benchmarking sequences comparison tools
Erwan Drézen, INRIA/IRISA/Genscale, France
Reitoria Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM Oral Presentations, BMC Genomics Track

-Estimation of genetic diversity in viral populations from next generation sequencing data with extremely deep coverage
Fernando Antoneli, UNIFESP, Brazil
-SncSeq: an automated pipeline for analyzing small non-coding RNA high throughput sequencing data
Natasha Jorge, INCA, Brazil
-MaLe-PSI-BLAST, a tool for generating and inspecting clusters of putatively homologous proteins based on Machine Learning optimized PSI-BLAST
J Miguel Ortega, UFMG, Brazil
CAD1 Auditorium
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break
CAD 1 Atrium
4:00 PM 5:00 PM Keynote: Network-based strategies in functional follow-up studies of breast cancer GWAS
Mauro Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Sérgio Campos)
CAD1 Auditorium
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Reception
Reitoria Atrium

DAY 2 - October 29th
Start Time End Time Session Type
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Opening Welcome and Conference Overview (Sérgio Campos)
CAD1 Auditorium
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Keynote: Integrative computational approaches in cancer drug discovery
Bissan Al-Lakizani, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK (Fábio Passetti)
CAD1 Auditorium
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break
CAD1 Atrium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Poster Flash Presentations: Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution + Sequence Analysis (Daniel Almonacid)

-The druggable proteome: Identifying novel target families for cancer
Parisa Razaz, ICR, United Kingdom
-Exploring the membrane potential of a simple dual membrane system by using a constant electric field
Yerko Escalona, Fund. Ciencia & Vida, Chile
-Residue correlation analysis - state of the art and successful applications
Lucas Bleicher, UFMG, Brazil
-Identification of Highly Mutated Protein Superfamilies in Cancer Using Protein Similarity Networks
Daniel Almonacid, Univ. Andres Bello, Chile
Reitoria Auditorium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Oral Presentations, BMC Genomics Track

-The impact of quality filter for RNA-Seq based reference over differential gene expression for prokaryotes
Rommel Ramos, UFPA, Brazil
-ProCARs: Progressive Reconstruction of Ancestral Gene Orders
Amandine Perrin, INRIA Lille, Univ. Lille 1 - LIFL France
-New features and refined SVM improve snoRNA identification in snoReportJoão Victor Oliveira, UnB, Brazil CAD1 Auditorium
12:00 PM 1:30 PM Lunch Break
CAD1 Atrium
1:00 PM 2:00 PM ISCB Open Business Meeting
CAD1 Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM BSB Flash Presentations (Marcelo Brígido)

-FUNN-MG: A Metagenomic Systems Biology Computational Framework
Leandro Corrêa, UFPA, Brazil
-Length and Symmetry on the Sorting by Weighted Inversions Problem
Ulisses Dias, UNICAMP, Brazil
-FluxMED: An Adaptable and Extensible Electronic Health Record System
Lucas Hanke, UFMG, Brazil
-Influence of sequence length in promoter prediction performance
Sávio Carvalho, UFOP, Brazil
Reitoria Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM Oral Presentations, BMC Genomics Track

-Evolution of the Unspliced Transcriptome
Jan Engelhardt, University of Leipzig, Germany
-Experimental Study of Local Alignment Distributions in the Comparison of Large Genomic Sequences
Oswaldo Trelles, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
-Memory acquisition and retrieval impact different epigenetic processes that regulate gene expression.
Lucia Peixoto, University of Pennsylvania, USA
CAD1 Auditorium
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break
CAD1 Atrium
4:00 PM 5:00 PM Keynote: Challenges in integrating exome sequencing, mRNA-seq, and microRNA-seq to identify disease genes: case study in optic nerve degeneration (Priscila Grynberg)
Terry Gaasterland, Scripps Genome Center, UCSD, USA
CAD1 Auditorium
5:00 pm 7:00 pm Poster Viewing - Odd numbers
CAD1 Atrium
5:30 pm 7:30 pm SoIBio Open Meeting
Bioinformatics Department Auditorium, F2 room 254, ICB

DAY 3 - October 30th
Start Time End Time Session Type
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Opening Welcome and Conference Overview (Javier De Las Rivas)
CAD1 Auditorium
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Keynote: Big Data challenges in genomics and computational biology
Kimmen Sjolander, UC Berkeley (Guilherme Oliveira)
CAD1 Auditorium
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break
CAD1 Atrium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Poster Flash Presentations: Protein Structure and function Prediction and Analysis + Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment (Francisco Lobo)

-GATB: Toolbox for developing efficient NGS software
Dominique Lavenier, CNRS, France
-DNA sequences do have a mathematical structure, and ancient DNA sequence can be revealed by error-correcting codes
Marcelo Brandão, UNICAMP, Brazil
-MASSA (Multi-Agent System for Snp Annotation) uses at genomic population studies
Giordano Soares-Souza, UFMG, Brazil
-Geneplast: an R package for evolutionary rooting and plasticity inference based on orthologous groups distribution.
Rodrigo Dalmolin, UFRN, Brazil
Reitoria Auditorium
10:30 AM 12:00 PM Oral Presentations, BMC Genomics Track:

-Genomic Island Prediction Software
Siomar Soares, UFMG, Brazil
-Using conformational preferences of amino acid residues and meta-heuristics to predict 3-D protein structures
Marcio Dorn, UFRGS, Brazil
-Visual and interactive strategies to reveal patterns of protein-ligand interaction
Alexandre Fassio, UFMG, Brazil
CAD1 Auditorium
12:00 PM 1:30 PM Lunch Break
CAD1 Atrium
1:00 PM 2:00 PM AB3C Open Business Meeting
CAD1 Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM BSB Flash Presentations (Nalvo Almeida Jr.)

-A MultiObjective Evolutionary Algorithm for improving Multiple Sequence Alignments
Wilson Soto, Univ. Central, Colombia
-Evolution of genes neighborhood within reconciled phylogenies: an ensemble approach
João Zanetti, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
-Structural comparative analysis of secreted NTPDase models of Schistosoma mansoni and Homo sapiens
Priscila Capriles, UFJF, Brazil
-Storage policy for genomic data in federated clouds
Maristela Holanda, UnB, Brazil
Reitoria Auditorium
2:00 PM 3:30 PM Poster Flash Presentations: Others (Adhemar Zerlotini)

-Functional Comparison and Inference Assessment of Biological Networks by Counting Basic Building Blocks
Alberto Jesus Martin, Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Chile
-Comparative evolutionary analysis of genes related to longevity in bird species
Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, LNCC, Brazil
-Data mining framework to predict short ORFs in prokaryotes by means of a target-decoy database approach and machine learning techniques
Fabio Ribeiro Cerqueira, UFV, Brazil
KOMODO2 – Large-scale genomic inference
Francisco Pereira Lobo, EMBRAPA, Brazil
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break
CAD1 Atrium
4:00 PM 6:00 PM Poster Viewing - Even numbers
CAD1 Atrium
Satellite Day - Courses - October 31st
8:30 AM 5:30 PM Practical Bioinformatics MiniCourse on "Gene Functional Networks and Protein Interactomics"
Bioinformatics Computer Room, M1 Ground Floor, ICB
9:00 AM 5:45 PM EBI Industry Workshop
Genetics Department Auditorium, B2 room 162, ICB
1:00 PM 5:00 PM Coverage Analysis for NGS data experiments
Bioinformatics Department Auditorium, F2 room 254, ICB
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Coffee Break
ICB Atrium
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch
ICB Atrium
3:00 PM 3:30 PM Coffee Break
ICB Atrium

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