Agenda at a glance

Two days ISCB-LatinAmerica-2012 Practical Tutorials
Day 1: Saturday - March 17, 2012
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Tutorial Registration
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Morning Session)
	Analysis, Comparison and Classification of Protein Structures [Room Z06 FCBS]	Genome browsers with special emphasis in the ENSEMBL system [Room CE1]	Protein resources and tools: sequence, architecture and protein interactions [Room Z05 FCBS]	Algorithms and tools for transcriptomics and multiple gene profiling using the open source platforms R and Bioconductor [Room CC1D]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Afternoon Session)
	Analysis, Comparison and Classification of Protein Structures [Room Z06 FCBS]	Genome browsers with special emphasis in the ENSEMBL system [Room CE1]	Protein resources and tools: sequence, architecture and protein interactions [Room Z05 FCBS]	Algorithms and tools for transcriptomics and multiple gene profiling using the open source platforms R and Bioconductor [Room CC1D]
Day 2: Sunday - March 18, 2012
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Tutorial Registration
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Morning Session)
	Immunoinformatics [Room CC1D]	Next generation sequencing: an introduction for bioinformaticians [Room Z06 FCBS]	Functional Genomics [Room CE1]	Computer-Based Drug Design [Room Z05 FCBS]
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Afternoon Session)
	Immunoinformatics [Room CC1D]	Next generation sequencing: an introduction for bioinformaticians [Room Z06 FCBS]	Functional Genomics [Room CE1]	Computer-Based Drug Design [Room Z05 FCBS]
Three days ISCB-LatinAmerica-2012 Main Conference
Day 3: Monday - March 19, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM	Main Conference Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Welcome/Opening Main Conference
SESSION I. Comparative Genomics and Evolution. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM	Keynote Lecture I: "Function prediction at different spatial scales"
	Peer Bork. EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM	Oral Presentations MM1-MM3
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM	Keynote Lecture II: "Orphan Orfogenic ORFs in the genomes of African trypanosomes"
	Fernando Alvarez. Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM	Oral Presentations MM4-MM6
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Business Presentation with free Lunch Sponsored by Life Technologies (open to any interested people) [Loc. Sala Colorada (ground floor)]
SESSION II. Genomics, Proteomics, Metagenomics and Metabolomics. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM	Keynote Lecture III: "Challenges of Assembling Genomes from the Second Generation Sequencing data"
	Aleksey Zimin. University of Maryland, USA.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM	Oral Presentations MA1-MA3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM	Keynote Lecture IV: "SABIA: A new version for next generation sequencing platforms"
	Ana Teresa Ribeiro de Vasconcelos. National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM	Oral Presentations MA4-MA6
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Poster Session I (Odd numbers) [Loc. Central Square (ground floor)]
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Meeting of SoIBio and FreeBIT/CYTED: Societies and Networks promoting Bioinformatics for Life Sciences and Biomedicine in IberoAmerica. [Loc. Sala Colorada (ground floor)]
Day 4: Tuesday - March 20, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM	Main Conference Registration
SESSION III. Macromolecule Structure/Function Prediction. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM	Keynote Lecture V: "Amazing Protein Folds"
	Manfred Sippl. University of Salzburg, Austria.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM	Oral Presentations TM1-TM3
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM	Keynote Lecture VI: "Conformational diversity and the development of new tools in bioinformatics"
	Gustavo Parisi. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM	Oral Presentations TM4-TM6
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM	Business Presentation with free Lunch Sponsored by Roche (open to any interested people) [Loc. Sala Colorada (ground floor)]
SESSION IV. Computer Aided Drug Design and Docking/Molecular Dynamics Simulations. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM	Keynote Lecture VII: "Coarse-Grain methods for molecular dynamics simulations: Actually bridging the gap between simulations and biological scales"
	Sergio Pantano. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM	Oral Presentations TA1-TA3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM	Keynote Lecture VIII: "Molecular Simulation of Non-equilibrium Systems: The Dance of ions across the membrane"
	Danilo González. Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM	Oral Presentations TA4-TA6
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Poster Session II (Even numbers) [Loc. Central Square (ground floor)]
Day 5: Wednesday - March 21, 2012
SESSION V. Biomedicine and Immunoinformatics. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM	Keynote Lecture IX: "Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource Program: Proving Intuitive Access To Comprehensive Epitope Data And Tools"
	Alessandro Sette. La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM	Oral Presentations WM1-WM3
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM	Keynote Lecture X: "Using Genomics to Improve Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer"
	Anamaría Camargo. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM	Oral Presentations WM4-WM6
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	The ISCB Open Member Meeting (open to any interested people) [Loc. Sala Colorada (ground floor)]
SESSION VI. Functional Genomics and Systems Biology. [Loc. Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)]
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM	Keynote Lecture XI: "Using ‘omics’ data to study regulator-target interactions and organizational principles in networks"
	Yves van de Peer. University of Ghent, Belgium.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM	Oral Presentations WA1-WA3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM	Keynote Lecture XII: "On the evolution of PPI networks"
	Sandro José de Souza. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM	Oral Presentations WA4-WA6
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Awards Ceremony
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM	Closing Remarks
7:00 PM – 11:30 PM	Conference Banquet [Loc. Castillo Hidalgo, Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago SEE MAP HERE]
One day satellite Workshops and Round Tables
Day 6: Thursday - March 22, 2012
SESSION VII. WorkShops on Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and GRID Computing. [Loc. Auditorium Aula Magna Eleodoro Matte Ossa (second floor)]
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM	"Ion Torrent – Open, Accessible, and Enabling"
	Matt Dyer. Life Technologies, USA.
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM	"Introducing GS FLX+ System"
	Xuemin Liu. 454 Sequencing/Roche, USA.
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	"Optimization of bioinformatics applications to be executed on GRID platforms"
	Manuel A. Rodríguez-Pascual and Rafael Mayo-García (CIEMAT, Spain; SoIBio, CYTED and FreeBIT)
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM	Coffee Break
SESSION VIII. Round Tables on Bioinformatics Research, Training and Education in Iberoamerica. [Loc. Auditorium Aula Magna Eleodoro Matte Ossa (second floor)]
3:20 PM – 4:20 PM	"Bioinformatics Education in Iberoamerica"
	Alejandra Medina-Rivera and Juan Pablo Bustamante (SoIBio Student Council), Daniel ALmonacid and Priscila Grynberg (ISCB Student Council).
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM	Coffee Break
4:40 PM – 5:40 PM	"Bioinformatics Research and Training in Iberoamerica"
	Guilherme de Oliveira (Brazil), Fernán Aguero (Argentina), Javier de las Rivas (Spain), Julio Collado-Vides (México), Allan Orozco (Costa Rica) and Francisco Melo (Chile).