Keynote Presentations

 

Michal Linial, PhD

Director of The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
Department of Biological Chemistry
Institute of Life Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

website: http://www.ls.huji.ac.il/michall/

Presentation Title: Good Things Come in Small Packages – Replicators and Innovators

Presentation Time: Sunday, July 13,  9:00 am - 10:00 am

Room: Ballroom A/B
Introduction by: Janet Kelso, Conference Co-chair

 

 

  2014 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award
Eugene (Gene) MyersGene Myers

Director and Tschira Chair of Systems Biology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden Germany

website: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/research/research-groups/gene-myers/group-leader.html

Presentation Title: DNA Assembly: Past, Present, and Future

Presentation Time: Sunday, July 13,  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Room: Ballroom A/B
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost, ISCB  President

 


Isaac (Zak) Kohane MD, PhDZac Kohane
Director, Children’s Hospital Informatics Program
Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston
Director, Countway Library of Medicine
Director, i2b2 National Center for Biomedical Computing
Co-Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
website:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/data_admin/Site113/mainpageS113P0.html

Presentation Title: Biomedical Quants of the World Unite! We only have our disease burden to lose.

Presentation Time: Monday, July 14,  9:00 am - 10:00 am
Room: Ballroom A/B

 Introduction by: Paul Horton, Conference Steering Committee

 

  2014 ISCB Overton Prize Award

Dana Pe'erDana Pe'er

Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
New York, United States
website: http://www.c2b2.columbia.edu/danapeerlab/html/

Presentation Title:  A multidimensional single cell approach TO understand cellular behavior

Presentation Time: Monday, July 14,  4:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Room: Ballroom A/B
Introduction by: Alfonso Valencia, ISCB, President Elect

 

 

 

Dr. Robert LangerRobert Langer

Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States

website: http://web.mit.edu/langerlab

Presentation Title: Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering

Presentation Time: Tuesday July 15, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Room: Ballroom A/B
Introduction by: Bonnie Berger, Conference Co-chair

 

 

2014 ISCB Fellows Keynote

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD

Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine and Computer Science

Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford University, United States

website: http://helix-web.stanford.edu/people/altman/

Presentation Title: Informatics for understanding drug response at all scales.

Presentation Time: Tuesday, July 15, 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Room: Ballroom A/B
Introduction by: Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer