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KEY DATES


 

Open registration May 6th, 2019
Abstract submission opens May 6th, 2019
Abstract submission deadline July 7th, 2019
Early bird registration deadline September 15th, 2019
Registration deadline November 1st, 2019
AdvCompBio Conference November 28th - 29,th 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS JULY 7th, 2019

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CONTACT INFORMATION


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Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)

Nexus II Building c/Jordi Girona, 29 08034 Barcelona (Spain)        

Website: http://bioinfo4women.bsc.es/

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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

 

GOLD SPONSOR: 10.000 € (VAT included)


Benefits:

  • 4 full-attendee registrations to the conference 
  • Verbal acknowledge during the opening and closing ceremony
  • Display of the sponsor's logo:
    • AdvCompBio website, in the corresponding category, and linked to its corporate website
    • All documentation relating to the Conference and social events, in a preferential place
    • Promotional emailings of the Conference
    • Screen of the plenary room
    • Back cover of the official digital book of abstracts of the AdvCompBio
  • Advertising page inside the official digital book of abstracts of the Conference
  • Option to include up to three elements of the sponsor in attendees’ bags
  • Assignment of a space for promotion of products or information
  • Mentions to the sponsor in social networks
  • Opportunity to lead a table "Breakfast with…" at the Conference

 

SILVER SPONSOR: 5.000 € (VAT included)


Benefits:

  • 2 full-attendee registrations to the conference 
  • Verbal acknowledge during the opening and closing ceremony
  • Display of the sponsor's logo:
    • AdvCompBio website, in the corresponding category, and linked to its corporate website
    • All documentation relating to the Conference and social events, in a preferential place
    • Promotional emailings of the Conference
    • Back cover of the official digital book of abstracts of the AdvCompBio
  • Advertising page inside the official digital book of abstracts of the Conference
  • Option to include one element of the sponsor in attendees’ bags
  • Assignment of a space for promotion of products or information
  • Mentions to the sponsor in social networks

 

BRONZE SPONSOR: 2.000 € (VAT included)


Benefits:

  • 1 full-attendee registrations to the conference 
  • Verbal acknowledge during the opening and closing ceremony
  • Display of the sponsor's logo:
    • AdvCompBio website, in the corresponding category, and linked to its corporate website
    • All documentation relating to the Conference and social events, in a preferential place
    • Promotional emailings of the Conference
    • Back cover of the official digital book of abstracts of the AdvCompBio
  • Advertising page inside the official digital book of abstracts of the Conference
  • Mentions to the sponsor in social networks

 

CONFERENCE SESSION SPONSOR


1. Sponsorship of each of the three keynote speakers: 1.300 €  (VAT included). Includes: accommodation, travel, transfers and dinners. 

2. Sponsorship of each of the invited women to the “Coffee with…”: 700 €  (VAT included). Includes: travel, transfers and a guided visit to La Pedrera.

3. Sponsorship of each of the three coffee breaks: 1.000 € (VAT included)

4. Sponsorship of the poster panels: 700 € (VAT included). Includes: production, shipment and presidential table.

5. Sponsorship of the theatre performance (20 seats): 400 € (VAT included)

Benefits:

  • Verbal acknowledgement at the beginning of the activity or sponsored session
  • Inclusion of the sponsor's logo in the activity or sponsored session
  • Display of the company logo in all the documentation related to the activity or sponsored session
  • Link from the sponsors section of the AdvCompBio website to its corporate website

 

REGISTRATION WAIVER FELLOWSHIPS FOR STUDENTS


Sponsorship of registration waiver fellowships for students: 400 € VAT included

The organization plans to grant registration waiver fellowships for attendees who have been selected for posters and / or oral communications. The award of the fellowships will be resolved based on the reception of their CV and a letter of motivation.

The fellowship will allow the assistant awarded to receive a free registration to the AdvCompBio, regular entry.

Benefits:

  • The fellowship will have the name of the sponsor
  • Inclusion of the sponsor's logo on the fellowships section of the conference web
  • If the fellowship holder participates with a poster: she must include the sponsor's logo in her poster
  • If the fellowship holder presents an oral communication: the sponsor's logo must be included in the presentation slides, which will be included in the book of abstracts.

 

CONTACT and MORE INFORMATION 


Please, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss these and other sponsorship opportunities at the next AdvCompBio 2019

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LA PEDRERA - CASA MILÀ


Casa Milà (1906-1912), popularly known as La Pedrera, is a building designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi and commissioned by Pere Milà and Roser Segimon.

The name ‘Casa Milà’ comes from the fact that it was the new home of the Milà family. The couple occupied the main floor and rented out the other apartments. La Pedrera is Antoni Gaudi’s most iconic work of civic architecture due to both its constructional and functional innovations, as well as its ornamental and decorative solutions. It is a total work of art.

La Pedrera, declared a World Heritage Site in 1984 by UNESCO, was restored and opened to the public in 1996. Since January 2013, the building has been home to the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation and a major cultural centre that is renowned in Barcelona for the range of activities it organises and the various museum spaces and rooms for public use that it provides.

 

La Pedrera
Passeig de Gràcia, 92
08008 Barcelona
Spain
https://www.lapedrera.com/en

 

BARCELONA ACCOMMODATION


Hotel Catalonia La Pedrera
Hotel Nextto
Hotel Actual
H10 Casa Mimosa  
Casa Matilda Barcelona
Casa Diagonal
Casa Gràcia
Hostal In Passeig de Gràcia
The Loft Hostel Barcelona
Rodamón Hostel

 

 

TOURIST INFORMATION


  Information about Barcelona
  Tourist Barcelona: Transport
  Tourist Barcelona: Accommodation
  Tourist Barcelona: Restaurants
  Barcelona El Prat Airport
  Girona-Costa Brava Airport
  Information Train – Renfe

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS


 

Christine Orengo, PhD. University College London (UCL)

 
 
Christine Orengo is a computational biologist, whose core research has been the development of robust algorithms to capture relationships between protein structures, sequences and functions. She has built one of the most comprehensive protein classifications, CATH, used worldwide by tens of thousands of biologists, and central to many pioneering structural and evolutionary studies.
 

CATH structural and functional data for hundreds of millions of proteins has enabled studies that revealed essential universal proteins and their biological roles, and extended characterisation of biological systems implicated in disease e.g. in cell division, cancer and ageing. CATH functional sites have revealed protein residues implicated in enzyme efficiency and bacterial antibiotic resistance. This data also identified genetic variations likely to be driving human diseases and the drugs that can be repurposed to offset the pathogenic effects.

Christine is a Vice President of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Elected member of EMBO since 2014, and a Fellow of ISCB since 2016. She is a founder of ELIXIR 3DBioInfo.

 

Natasa Przulj, PhD. Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)

Prof. Dr. Natasa Przulj, PhD, MAE

Prof. Przulj is recognized for initiating extraction of biomedical knowledge from the wiring patterns (topology, structure) of large real-world molecular (omics) networks. She designs new algorithms for mining and integrating the wiring patterns of systems-level, heterogeneous omics networks.  She applies them to uncover new biological and medical information and gain deeper biomedical understanding.

She is an elected academician of The Academy of Europe, Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She is an ICREA Research Professor at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. She has been a Professor of Biomedical Data Science at University College London (UCL) Computer Science Department since 2016. She received two prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants, the ERC Consolidator grant titled “Integrated Connectedness for a New Representation of Biology” (2018-2023) and the ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant titled “Biological Network Topology Complements Genome as a Source of Biological Information” (2012-2017). She was awarded the British Computer Society Roger Needham Award in 2014 for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within ten years of their PhD.  She held a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for the project titled “Tools for Analyzing, Modeling, and Comparing Protein-Protein Interaction Networks” in 2007-2011 at University of California Irvine.

Prof. Przulj is a member of the Editorial Boards of Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals), Scientific Reports (NaturePublishing Group) and Frontiers in Genetics (Frontiers), an Associate Editor of the Journal of Complex Networks (Oxford Academic) and BMC Bioinformatics (BioMed Central), a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI / Braunschweig, Germany), and the Proceedings / Area Chair / COSI Lead of Protein Interactions, Molecular Networks and Network Biology tracks at the ISMB/ECCB 2015, ISMB 2016 and ISMB/ECCB 2017, ISMB 2018 and ISMB/ECCB 2019.

 

Marie-Christine Sawley, PhD. Intel

Marie-Christine Sawley

Marie-Christine joined Intel France in December 2010 as the Exascale Lab Director in Paris, and since then, of the collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

She completed a PhD in plasma physics at CRPP-EPFL in 1985 on analytical and numerical studies of the coupling phenomena between electromagnetic waves and magnetically confined plasmas. In 1997, she joined the “Mastering the Technology Enterprise” curriculum at IMD in Lausanne.

Active in HPC and scientific computing for the last two decades, Marie-Christine has been the director of CSCS, the Swiss national supercomputing centre for five years 2003 - 2008, before joining CMS Computing at CERN. Prior to this, she was one of the proponents and drivers for establishing the Vital-IT centre of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics in 2002 in partnership with HP and Intel.

Marie-Christine has also conducted a number of prominent activities in the area of scientific and technology, such as for the EPFL CRAY collaboration in 1994-95, EPFL Alinghi project in 2002-03, Swiss TX cluster at EPFL and promotion of ETH Zurich and Swiss industries in the building of the CMS detector at CERN in 2008.

 

 

CONFERENCE CHAIRS


Janet Kelso - Group leader, Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

Alison Kennedy - Director, STFC Hartree Center, UK.

Núria López Bigas - ICREA Research Professor and Group leader, Biomedical Genomics Research Group, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain.

 

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE  


 

LEARNING FROM BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES 

Ana Rojas - Group leader, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group at the Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology, CSIC, Spain.

Marta Melé - Group Leader, Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics LabBarcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain.

Cristina Marino-Buslje - Group Leader, Structural BioinformaticsFundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina.

Eva Novoa - Group Leader, Epitranscriptomics and RNA Dynamics, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain.

Anjali Gupta Hinch - Postdoctoral Researcher,  Prof Peter Donnelly's group, Oxford University, UK.

Marina Marcet-Houben - Postdoctoral Researcher, Comparative Genomics Lab, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain.

Cinta Pegueroles - Postdoctoral Researcher, Comparative Genomics Lab, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain.

 

MACHINES SPEEDING UP RESEARCH 

Fiona Reid - Data Scientist and HPC Expert, HPC Consultant.

Michele Weiland - Project Manager, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), University of Edinburgh, UK.

Dawn Geatches - Project Scientist, Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, UK.

Laura Schulz - Head of Strategic Development, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ), Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany.      

                                                                                                        

WHEN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MEETS MEDICINE 

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstein - Group Leader, Cancer Genomics and BioComputing lab (lab's website), Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Vera Pancaldi - Group Leader, Centre de Recherches de Cancerologie de Toulouse (CRCT), Inserm, France.

Laura Inés Furlong - Miguel Servet researcher and head of the Integrative Bioinformatics group, Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), IMIM-UPF, Spain.

Valentina Boeva - Group Leader Computational (Epi-) Genetics of Cancer group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) & Institut Cochin, Inserm, France.

Fatima Al-Shahrour - Head of Bioinformatics Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Spain.

Anaïs Baudot - Group Leader Networks and Systems Biology for Diseases group, CNRS Researcher, Marseille Medical Genetic Unit (MMG), Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, France.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Mar Albà - ICREA Research Professor and Head of Group, Evolutionary genomics group, Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (UPF/IMIM).

Eva Alloza - Training and Support Officer, Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

Rosa Maria Badia - Manager, Workflows and distributed computing group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

Nataly Buslón - Postdoctoral Researcher, Social link analytics life sciences group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

Osnat Hakimi. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Group (UPC).  

Alba Jené - Research Manager, Bioinformatics coordination unit, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

Eva Navarrete - Director Assistant, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

María José Rementería - Head of Unit, Social link analytics life sciences group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

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  TOPICS INCLUDED


  • Learning from biological sequences

Including population genomics, evolutionary genomics, systems biology, transcriptomics, sequence analysis.

  • When Computational Biology meets medicine

Including biomedical applications, mutational landscapes, clinical genomics.

  • Machines speeding up research

Including high performance computing, machine learning in the life sciences, imaging data analysis, dynamic simulations and algorithm development.

 

AWARDS


During the first Advanced in Computational Biology Conference, we are pleased to announce that a number of prizes will be awarded for the best oral and poster presentations. These awards are given to acknowledge the quality of these presentations and to encourage excellence in the dissemination of computational biology research. The awards will be presented after an assessment conducted by a panel of judges. Oral presentations will be scored by the session chairs, and posters evaluated by peer evaluation. Scores will be based on the following criteria: 

Oral Presentations

The best oral presentation in each of the thematic tracks will be awarded a laptop computer courtesy of HP Women in Technology.

Oral presentations are to be assessed both on the scientific merit of the research and on the ability of the presenter to convey the research to the audience.

  • The written abstract is part of the judging process, assigned 15 points. The abstract should be well written, with sufficient detail and a good representation of the work presented.
  • Content of the presentation is assigned 35 points. Factors considered include the quality and interest of the introduction, organization, clarity of aims and results and the scientific merit of the study.
  • Presentation style and delivery are assigned 30 points. This includes the pace, vocal clarity, language and grammar, poise and confidence, rapport and eye contact with the audience, quality, and relevance of the visuals.
  • Question period is assigned 15 points. Factors considered include the ability to directly answer the questions and engage in discussion with the audience.

 

HP

 

Poster Presentations

The best poster presentation in each of the thematic tracks will be awarded a signed and dedicated copy of the book “Analyzing Network Data in Biology and Medicine” by Prof. Nataša Pržulj courtesy of Cambridge University Press

Poster prizes will be awarded by popular vote using an online form, and each participant will be entitled to choose up to 3 posters in each of the two sessions. Suggested aspects to be taken into account include: scientific content of the poster, clarity and interest of the introduction, organization of the material presented, development of the concepts of the study, clarity of thought, suitability of references cited and the scientific merit of the study. Also, appearance of the poster, including readability and relevance of the visuals, and text/graphic balance.

Cambridge University Press 

 

TIMELINE


Abstract submission opens May 6th, 2019
Abstract submission deadline July 7th, 2019
Oral communication and poster acceptance notification September 1st, 2019

 

 

 

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