Birds of a Feather (BoF) - ISMB/ECCB 2015
Topic: Exploring and Refining Core Competencies for Bioinformatics (ISCB Curriculum Task Force)
Leader: Lonnie Welch
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Affililiation: Ohio University
Date:Sunday July 12, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2A
Description:
In this session we will explore the draft competencies and guidelines of the Curriculum Task Force of the ISCB Education Committee, learn how they are being used to shape training programs in different contexts, and work together to provide input into a refined and updated set of core competencies and guidelines.
Topic: Web Molecular Graphics
Leader: Andrea Schafferhans
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Affililiation: Department for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, TU München
Date: Sunday July 12, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Liffey Hall 2
Description:
The goal of the meeting is to identify and work on a common set of functionality for the various JavaScript-based molecular graphics initiatives. It should catalyse efforts to share a common code base in order to exploit synergies. We aim to exchange knowledge and discuss ways to move forward.
Topic: Co-designing ECCB2016’s science, tech & application track
Leader: Jeroen de Ridder
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Affiliation: Delft University of Technology / ECCB2016 organizing committee
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2A
Description:
ECCB2016 (Sept 3-7, The Hague) will tackle the gap between frontier computational life science and the frontier in enabling life science in clinical and industrial practice. \r\nThis session invites all interested from academia, clinical labs and industry in both ends of the spectrum to co-design the major ECCB2016 tracks dedicated to applied science, technology and services.
Topic: Residue Networks in Structural Biology
Leader: Mario Albrecht
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Affiliation: Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2B
Description:
This meeting on residue networks aims to exchange knowledge and identify common interests with regard to analysis and visualization methods, data formats, and software tools. The meeting should generate joint efforts to share methods, datasets and source code to create synergies and to discuss future network perspectives in structural biology.
Topic: Discrimination and Mobbing in Science
Leader: Mario Albrecht
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Affiliation: Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Date: Sunday July 12, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2B
Description:
Mobbing affects thousands of scientists worldwide and destroys careers and health. This meeting particularly addresses the extent of mobbing in science and its impact on research and academic life. It focuses on scientific and political settings of mobbing, hidden social mechanisms, support of mobbed colleagues and self-defense.
Topic: Building a Stronger Connection between Industry and Academics
Leader: Enoch Huang and Alfonso Valencia
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Affiliation: ISCB Industry Advisory Council
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2015 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: The Liffey A
Description:
Join us for this intimate session to discuss ways bioinformatic and biotech industry can become better engage with academics. This Birds of a Feather session hosted by the ISCB Industry Advisory Council is an open dialogue opportunity aimed to explore ways to nurture the transfer of ideas from academics to industry
Michael Levitt (KN01)
Stanford School of Medicine
Presentation Title: Fun With Large Structures and Masses of Sequence
Date/Time: Sunday, July 12th, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost, ISCB Past President
Abstract:
The development multiscale models for complex chemical systems began in 1967 with publications by Warshel and Levitt recently recognized by the 2013 Nobel Committee for Chemistry. The simplifications used then at the dawn of the age of computational structural biology were mandated by computers that were almost a billion times less cost-effective than those we use today. These same multiscale models have become increasingly popular in application that range from simulation of atomic protein motion, to protein folding and explanation of enzyme catalysis. In this talk I describe the origins computational structural biology and then go on to show some of the most exciting current and future applications.
Biography:
Born in South Africa in 1947, I visited London in 1963 and stayed for a BSc. After a year with Shneior Lifson and his PhD student Arieh Warshel at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, I joined the Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular in 1968.
I returned to Israel in 1972 collaborating with Warshel on multi-scale modeling: coarse-grained models that allowed folding simulation and hybrid models combined classical and quantum mechanics In 1974, I returned to LMB for three years, spent two years with Francis Crick at Salk and seven years at Weizmann, before moving to Structural Biology at Stanford from 1987.
My diverse interests include RNA & DNA modeling, protein folding, protein classification and geometry, x-ray refinement, antibody modeling, side-chain geometry, normal modes, solution molecular dynamics, aromatic hydrogen bonds and mass spectrometry.
My ambitions are to work single-mindedly as I did in the mid-1970’s on hard problems and help today’s young scientists gain the recognition and independence my generation enjoyed.
Keynote Presentations
* All talks are in the Auditorium
Michael Levitt (KN01)
2013 Nobel Laureate - Chemistry
Stanford University
California, United States
Presentation Title: Fun With Large Structures and Masses of Sequence
Date/Time: Sunday July 12th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost, ISCB Past President
ISCB Overton Prize Award Keynote
Curtis Huttenhower (KN02)
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston;
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Keynote's Website
Presentation Title: Understanding microbial community function and the human microbiome in health and disease
Date/Time: Sunday July 12th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Bonnie Berger
Eileen Furlong (KN03)
Genome Biology Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Heidelberg, Germany
Keynote's Website
Presentation Title: Genome regulation during embryonic development
Date/Time: Monday July 13th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Janet Kelso
Kenneth H Wolfe (KN04)
UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science
Conway Institute
University College Dublin, Ireland
Keynote's Website
Presentation Title: Reversible DNA rearrangement as a switch for cell type in yeasts
Date/Time: Monday July 13th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Des Higgins
Senior Scientist Award
Cyrus Chothia (KN05)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
United Kingdom
Keynote's Website
Presentation Title: How lucky I have been
Date/Time: Tuesday July 14th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Alex Bateman
This special award presentation for Cyrus Chothia will feature short presentations from Arthur Lesk, Steven Brenner and Julian Gough followed by a short Q&A with Cyrus Chothia
Award Presentation by: Alfonso Valencia
ISCB Fellows Keynote
Amos Bairoch KN06)
Professor and Director, Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva; and
Group leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Switzerland
Keynote's Website
Presentation Title: neXtProt 2015 highlights: SPARQL endpoint and biocuration efforts around the human protein variome
Date/Time: Tuesday July 14th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost
