WELCOME - Chair: Rosa M. Badia

• Janet Kelso, Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  
• Alison Kennedy, Director, STFC Hartree Centre
  
• Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor and Group leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona
• Carla Conejo,  Scientific Projects Leader, Area of Knowledge, Education and Research at Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera
• Àngels Chacón, Minister of Business and Knowledge, Government of Catalonia

KEYNOTE TALK - Chair: Janet Kelso

Christine Orengo (UCL): "CATH Functional families - insights into impacts of genetic variations" 

 PLENARY SESSION 1 - Chair: Janet Kelso

• Compute02: An RPCA (Robust Principal Component Analysis) based approach for protein-protein interaction hot-spot prediction, Divya Sitani
• BioMed03: Predicting synthetic lethal interactions using conserved patterns in protein interaction networks, Frances Pearl
• BioSeq01: Characterization of Selenoprotein Gene Expression across Tissues and Individuals, Aida Ripoll-Cladellas

PLENARY SESSION 2 - Chair: Alison Kennedy

• BioSeq06: Go low with ATLAS: a tool for maximizing insight from minimal sequencing depth, Vivian Link
• BioSeq02: Tools for transforming multiomics data into disease models, Ana Conesa
• BioSeq05: Genomic based drug repurposing screen for Rett syndrome, Irene Unterman
• Compute05: DLMF: Deep Logistic Matrix Factorization with multiple information integration for drug-target interaction prediction, Sarra Itidal Abbou

KEYNOTE TALK - Chair: Alison Kennedy

Marie-Christine Sawley (Intel): "Data centric large scale computing, a powerful scientific instrument for life and science"

PLENARY SESSION 3 - Chair: Rosa M. Badia

• BioSeq03: Widespread sexual dimorphism in genetic architecture in UK Biobank, Elena Bernabeu
• BioSeq04: Fine-mapping UK Biobank traits GWAS using bayesian algorithms and chromatin annotation data, Erola Pairo-Castineira
• Compute03: Automated extraction of color pattern and anatomical characteristics in dairy cows, Jessica Nye
• Compute04: The human heart seen by the eyes of a computer scientist, Marta Garcia-Gasulla

Group picture

Coffee break + Meeting with Women leaders (prior confirmed registration) + Poster session I

PLENARY SESSION 4 - Chair: Núria López-Bigas

• BioMed05: Insight into genetic predisposition to chronic lymphocytic leukemia from integrative epigenomics, Renée Beekman
• BioMed01: OncodriveCLUSTL: a sequence-based clustering method to identify cancer drivers, Claudia Arnedo-Pac
• BioMed02: Detecting aberrant integrations of viral DNA that promote major restructuring of cancer genome architecture, Eva G Alvarez
• Compute01: Discriminating Early- and Late-Stage Cancers Using Multiple Kernel Learning on Gene Sets, Arezou Rahimi
• BioMed04: Mechanistic approach for optimal model selection in cancer research, Inmaculada Álamo-Álvarez

KEYNOTE TALK - Chair: Núria López-Bigas

Natasa Przulj (BSC, ICREA): "Towards Data-Integrated Medicine"

PLENARY SESSION 5 - Chair: Mar Albà

• BioSeq26: Dynamic hyper editing underlines temperature adaptation in Drosophila, Ilana Buchumenski
• BioSeq29: Benchmarking coevolution methods, Rocío Rama Ballesteros
• BioMed21: Computational challenges associated to plasmid mediated AMR spread, Alice Ledda

PLENARY SESSION 6 - Chair: Marta Melé

• BioMed22: Cell-intrinsic core-regulatory circuits driving tumor-related phenotypes with the I3-OncoNet cycle, Julia Puig
• BioSeq28: Single-cell transcriptomics analysis reveals the dynamics of alternative polyadenylation during cell cycle progression, Mireya Plass
• Compute15: An atomistic molecular dynamics simulations approach to the study of h-LDHA inhibition, Antonia Vyrkou
• BioSeq27: Comparative epigenomics determines the enhancer sequence code of pluripotent embryonic stem cells and facilitates the creation of synthetic enhancers, Jennifer Mitchell

Closing remarks and Best Poster and Oral presentation awards - Chairs: Janet Kelso, Alison Kennedy and Núria Lopez-Bigas