ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013

Contacts

Conference Chairs

 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Institute de Pasteur, Tunis ("IPT"))

 Fouzia RADOUANI (Institute de Pasteur, Morocoo) 

Conference Steering Committee

    Alia BENKAHLA (Conference Chair)

    Fouzia RADOUANI (Conference Co-Chair & Local Organizing Committee Chair)

    Nicky MULDER (ASBCB President)

    Burkhard ROST (ISCB President)

    Janet KELSO (ISCB Conferences Committee Chair)

    Reinhard SCHNEIDER (ISCB Treasurer)

    BJ MORRISON MCKAY (ISCB Executive Officer)

    Diane KOVATS (ISCB Executive Director)

    Manuel CORPAS (Fundraising Chair)

    Dan MASIGA (Proceedings Chair)

     Kais GHEDIRA

     Mohamed ALIBI et YOSRA BOU YAKOUB 

Local Workshop Organizing Committee (Morocco)

Mekki ALAOUI, IPM Director

Fouzia RADOUANI, Conference Cochair

Hassan Ghazal, MBN Coordinator

Mohammed TIMINOUNI

Khalid GABI

Nouzha COHEN

Hamid BARAKAT

Fatima MAACHI

Nadia HARMANI

Moroccan Bioinformatics Network (MBN)

Local Conference  Organizing Committee (Morocco)

Fouzia RADOUANI, PhD. Conference Cochair

Mekki ALAOUI, IPM Director

Hassan Ghazal, MBN Coordinator

Moroccan Bioinformatics Network (in the webpage a popup will open and show all MBN members in alphabetic order as follows) :

Gaboun Fatima, INRA

Ghazal Hassan, UMP

Ibrahimi Azedine, FMPR

Moussa Ahmed, ENSAT

Raouf Alami, CNTS

Radouani Fouzia, IPM

Sadki Khalid, FSR

Seghrouchni Fouad, INH

Local Organizing Committee

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Welcome ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013

Conference on Bioinformatics!

The International Society for Computational Biology and the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are pleased to once again join together to host the ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics in Casablanca, Morocco, March 13-15, 2013. This meeting constitutes the third joint meeting of ISCB and ASBCB, and the fourth conference of the ASBCB on Bioinformatics of African pathogens, hosts and vectors.

The ISCB Africa ASBCB conferences feature a broad Bioinformatics scope that include a special focus on infectious diseases relevant to Africa. Please consider submitting your best research for presentation at the conference as a talk or poster. Samples of topics of interest include the following (although other topics are welcome as we ultimately seek the best, most interesting and novel presentations for this conference):

Bioinformatics of human genetics
Host/pathogen systems biology
Database and resource development
Molecular epidemiology and evolution
Search and design of vaccines and drugs
Functional, structural, and comparative genomics

Mark your calendar now to be sure to attend this meeting in March of 2013. The organizers look forward to welcoming you to Casablanca, Morocco!

ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013

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ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013

Poster Presentations

updated Sept 04, 2013

Links within this page:

• Bioinformatics of human genetics

• Database and resource development

• Functional structural and comparative genomics

• Host/pathogen systems biology

• Molecular epidemiology and evolution

• Search and design of vaccines and drugs

• Other

BIOINFORMATICS OF HUMAN GENETICS

P01
Adesola Ajayi
Virulence determinants of staphylococcus aureus associated with the normal and infectious diseases

P02
Imane Allali
Study of the association between the composition of the gut microbiota and the incidence of colon cancer in the Moroccan population using a metagenomic approach

P03
Ahmed Alzohairy
Gene-Tracer: Algorithm Tracing Genes Modification from Ancestors through Offsprings

P04
Chama Bensmail
Efficient Algorithms for Selecting the Best Proxy Ancestry in Recently Admixed Populationsl

P05
Mohamed Issa
Gene Tracer algorithm implementation on GPU

P06
Firdous Khan
Identification of MiRNAs as specific biomarkers in prostate cancer diagnostics : A combined in silico and molecular approach

P07
Lilia Romdhane
Computational analysis of genes underlying genodermatoses

P08
Catherine van Zyl
Transcriptional characterization of histologically heterogeneous tumours in colorectal cancer

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DATABASE AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

P09
Adewale Adebayo
Annotations of virulence factors for the development of SchistoVir DB

P10
Agostinho Antunes
An alignment-free approach for eukaryotic ITS2 annotation and phylogenetic inference

P11
Efejiro Ashano
Increasing the Representation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research of Biological Scientist from Developing African Countries

P12
Kais Ghedira
Web-portal for Trypanosomatidae related large-scale data analyses

P13
Sana Hsouna
MITOMEDPOP: Mitochondrial DNA database of Human Mediterranean Populations

P14
Jessica Kissinger
EuPathDB – An Integrated Omics Resource for Eukaryotic Pathogens

P15
Darlington Mapiye
Development of an Optimized Cross-platform Expression Array Integration Method and Its Application to Breast Cancer

P16
Oluwagbemi Olugbenga
BengaWolex: A Novel Cross-platform mobile application for storing and accessing fundamental knowledge in transcriptomics, proteomics, metagenomics and metabolomics

P17
Oussama Semlali
Development of a “Moroccan Database for Cancer Care” (MD2C)

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FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURAL AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS

P18
Marion Adebiyi
In-silico Study of the Complex Mechanisms of the Anopheles Gambiae Insecticide Resistance

P19
Gargi Datta
A Genomic and Bioinformatics Pipeline for Drug Resistance Mutation Identification and Functional Impact Inference

P20
Amel Ghouila
EuPathDomains: The divergent domain database for eukaryotic pathogens

P21
Souheila Guerbouj
Comparative bioinformatics analysis of promastigote surface antigen (PSA) genes: insights into evolution of a Leishmania specific gene family

P22
Wisdom Iyanda-Joel
Aloe barbadensis Miller Gel keeps Mitochondria Intact in the Absence of Oxidative Stress Triggering Agent

P23
John Juma
Gene Transcription, Expression profiles and fingerprinting of the various PfEMP1/var genes within Plasmodium falciparum

P24
O Kaissi
Software Tools and Methods Comparison ine Gene Selection Procedure for Microarrays Data Analysis

P25
Imane Sabaouni
The Whole Genome Expression Analysis using two Microarray Technologies to Identify Gene Networks That Mediate the Myocardial Phenotype of CD36 Deficiency

P26
Sondos Smandi
Computational characterisation of UnTranslated Regions (UTRs) regulatory motifs in Trypanosomatidae

P27
Zineb Tarhda
Homology modeling of fatty acids binding site of the human receptor CD36

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HOST/PATHOGEN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

P28
Nusrah Afolabi-Balogun
Molecular Characterization of Extended Spectrum-Lactamase Gene in E.Coli

P29
Yvonne Ajamma Obiekwe
Molecular characterisation of two Mansonia species in Suba and Baringo districts in Kenya

P30
Saibou Doumbia
Malariometric parameters evolution during the co-infection Schistosoma heamatobium and P. falciparum in Mali

P31
Gaston Mazandu
Using Host-Pathogen Functional interactions for Filtering Potential Drug Targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P32
Fiona Mumoki
Molecular Characterisation of Wolbachia in Honeybees Apis mellifera L., from Different Parts of Kenya

P33
Edwin Murungi
Trypanosoma brucei Interactome: Elucidation of Pathways, Functional Annotation and Mining of Drug Candidates

P34
Lawrence Okoror
Gene Analysis Of Newly Isolated Lassa Virus Strains: Comparative Analysis Of Their Protein Interactions

P35
Jelili Oyelade
Signalling pathways and RBCs invasion by the malaria parasite: A computational analysis

P36
Elisabetta Pizzi
Dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum developmental processes through reconstruction of parasite stage-specific interactomes

Additional Posters Presented:

P63
Mahmoud ElHefnawi
Metagenomics and the potential role of microbial communities in liver cancer

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MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

P37
Louis Fippo
A probabilistic model for the reconstruction of ancestral genomes

P38
Endalamaw Gadisa
Leishmania donovani complex (Kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae): Comparison of deoxyribonucleic acid based techniques for typing of isolates from Ethiopia

P39
Myriam Harrabi
The turnover of Leishmania major strains twenty years later in the center of Tunisia: inference from microsatellite data

P40
Myriam Harrabi
Genetic and population characterization of L.major from foci in the Center and the South East of Tunisia

P41
Myriam Harrabi
Evolutionary and geographical patterns of L.major from Old and new foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the center of Tunisia

P42
Tokumasa Horiike
Ortho-Gen: The ortholog dataset constructing tool for phylogenetic analysis

P43
Grace Olasehinde
Reduction in incidence of Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance (Pfcrt) and Multidrug Resistance (Pfmdr I) genes in Southwestern Nigeria

P44
Adegoke Oyedokun
Diversity in the genome of Ephestia cautella Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Strains from Southwestern Nigeria

P45
Mamadou Wele
Genotype: Resistance Index as a molecular tool in malaria drug resistance surveillance in Mali

P46
Fathiah Zakham
Phylogeny Analysis and Comparative Genomics for studying the evolution of mycobacterial strains

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SEARCH AND DESIGN OF VACCINES AND DRUGS

P47
Marion Adebiyi
In-silico Study of the Complex Mechanisms of the Anopheles Gambiae Insecticide Resistance

P48
Olukayode Aremu
Repository of Malaria Drugs and Insecticide Resistances

P49
Emmanuel Bakare
On the Optimal Strategies of the intra-host dynamics of Malaria and the immune system using chemoprophylaxis

P50
Nadia Hadiji
Structure prediction of HBsAg in wild and mutant form

P51
Debora Kajeguka
CD36 c.1264 T>G Null Mutation Impairs Acquisition of IgG Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum MSP1-19 Antigen and is Associated with Higher Malaria Incidences in Tanzanian Children

P52
Fouad Seghrouchni
New algorithm and software for reveres immunogegetic analysis predicting microbial T-cell epitops.

P53
Imogen Wright
Rapid sequence alignment on graphics processing units with application to HIV drug resistance testing

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OTHER

P54
Frederick Adzitey
Pekin ducks, a potential source of novel Listeria species

P55
Faouzia Ajili
Polymorphism of the toll like receptor 2 and response to bacillus Calmette-Guerin immunotherapy for superficial bladder cancer

P56
Hanen Chelbi Ben Amor
Toll-Like Receptor Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile Polymorphisms and childhood asthma in Tunisia: A Case-control study

P57
Narjis Es-Sette
First detection of Toscana Virus RNA from Sand flies in Phlebotomus perniciosus, naturally infected in Morocco

P58
Alexander Nwagwo
Asymptotic Stability Analysis of a Delayed Epidemic model with Constant Recruitment

P59
Odile Ouwe Missi Oukem-Boyer
First Steps in Building Capacity and Partnerships in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Niger

P60
Yassine Souilmi
Moroccan Clinical Avatar for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction in Moroccan Population

P61
Surafel Tilahun
Genetic Algorithm under Uncertainty

P62
Nick Weber
HPC Web: Democratizing High Performance Computing at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013

Key Dates

updated February 05, 2013

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

1st August 2012

• Paper/oral submission opens

16th November 2012

• Paper/oral submission deadline

21st December 2012

• Paper/oral acceptance notification

POSTER SUBMISSIONS

1st August 2012

• Poster submission opens

12th December 2012

• Poster submission deadline

2nd January 2013

• Poster acceptance notification

LATE POSTER SUBMISSIONS

9th January 2013

• Late poster submission opens

23rd January 2013

• Late poster submission deadline

30th January 2013

• Late poster acceptance notification

TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS

31st Octember 2012

• Travel fellowship application opens

12th December 2013

• Travel fellowship application deadline

23rd January 2013

• Travel fellowship acceptance notification

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

21st November 2012

• Early registration opens

13th February 2013

• Early registration closes

6th March 2013

• Online registration closes

11th - 15th March 2013

• Onsite registration is open at conference venue
  

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Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper or poster to the conference.  Submission is now closed. 

Registration is still available online through 6 March.

Paper and poster acceptance will be determined within one week of the conference.

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Paper and Poster deadline is 4 March 2013

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (PAPERS, POSTERS)

Papers and posters are intended to convey a scientific result that is original work, and are not advertisements for commercial software packages.

The conference organizers are currently negotiating with a publisher for publication of the ISCB Africa ASBCB Confernece Proceedings a special issue or supplement. News about this will be posted to this page as it becomes available.

Conference sessions will be organized within the topic areas listed below. Papers and posters may cover any area of computational biology, and any accepted papers covering an area other than those listed below will be woven into the agena at the most appropriate slots available:

• Host/pathogen systems biology
• Bioinformatics of human genetics
• Molecular epidemiology and evolution
• Functional, structural and comparative genomics
• Database and resource development
• Search and design of vaccines and drugs

All paper and poster abstracts must be a maximum of 250 words (to appear in the conference booklet) and should provide at the least the following information within them: background information, approach/methods, results and conclusions (actual headings within the abstract are not necessary).

For paper submissions, authors are required to submit an additional paragraph of up to 250 words stating the relevance of the work for the purpose of convincing reviewers of the scientific content/validity; these additional 250 words will not be published and are for reviewing purposes only.

ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013

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