Symposium Programme
Programme Schedule tentative and subject to change.
Programming time is Central Mexican Time.
| Wednesday – Day 1 – October 28, 2020 |
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| Go directly to: Thursday, Oct 29 | ||
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SESSION TYPE |
| 10:00 am | 10:05 am | Welcome, Overview of Meeting Schedule |
| 10:05 am | 10:35 am | Keynote: Updating the conceptual framework of the regulation of transcription initiation in bacteria (RegulonDB) Julio Collado Vides |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Computational Evolutionary Biology of Microorganisms Moderator: Ernesto Pérez Rueda Bacterial community composition of the Rimac river, the main water source for Lima, Peru Pedro Romero Agave lechuguilla and soil properties as sculptors of the rhizospheric bacterial community Guadalupe Medina Pangenome analysis of the genus Clavibacter suggests the origin of bacterial canker pathogenicity Nelly Sélem-Mojica |
| 10:50 am | 11:45 am | Stretch Break |
| 11:45 am | 12:15 pm | Keynote: Evolution of structural and functional features in intrinsically disordered proteins Lucia Chemes |
| 12:15 pm | 1:00 pm | Strategies in Cancer Genomics: From family to population studies Moderator: Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME: A META-ANALYSIS OF DRIVER GENES, CURRENT DIAGNOSIS, AND TUMOR HETEROGENEITY Katia Aviña-Padilla Highly-connected, non-redundant microRNAs functional control in breast cancer molecular subtypes Guillermo de Anda-Jáuregui |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Lunch Break (open networking, system will be open with opportunity to ask for a breakout room) |
| 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | Keynote: Exploring associations between cancer genes and pharmacological compounds: target-drug networks and GEDA Monica Arroyo |
| 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | Presentation Roundtable |
| 3:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Women in STEM Panel Moderator: Selene Fernandez-Valverde Sandrine Dudoit Rafaela Salgado Ferreira Alejandra Eugenia Medina Rivera Morgane Thomas-Chollier |
| Thursday – Day 2 – October 29, 2020 | ||
| Go directly to: Wednesday, Oct 28 | ||
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SESSION TYPE |
| 10:00 am | 10:05 am | Day 1 Review and Welcome to Day 2 |
| 10:05 am | 10:35 am | Keynote: Bioinformatics modern challanges: from genes to ecosystems Alicia Mastretta |
| 10:35 am | 11:30 am | Population dynamics and Evolution in Eukaryotes Moderator: Federico Sanchez Ancestry Packages: Merging uniparental and autosomal genetic histories Vladimir Bajić Integrated synteny- and similarity-based inference on the polyploidization-fractionation cycle David Sankoff Reading the book of life: the language of proteins Malay Basu Review of HLA frequencies by country allowed immunoinformatic prediction of SARS-CoV-2 candidate epitopes specific for South America Aldhair Medico Vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT) genes: origin, evolution and molecular signatures underpinning glutamate transport in animals Nicolas Zuniga |
| 11:30 am | 11:45 am | Stretch Break |
| 11:45 am | 12:15 pm | Keynote: Uncovering the Colombian microbial diversity through metagenomics Alejandro Reyes |
| 12:15 pm | 1:05 pm | Bioinformatic strategies and methods to unravel RNA Genomics Moderator: Alejandro Reyes Quiroz Logical modeling of dendritic cells in vitro differentiation from human monocytes unravels novel transcriptional regulatory interactions Karen Nuñez-Reza Comparative and systems analyses of Leishmania spp. non-coding RNAs through developmental stages J. Eduardo Martinez Automatic GO annotation of Long Non-coding RNAs Flavio Spetale Ribolog: a toolkit for unbiased analysis of ribosome profiling data Hosseinali Asgharian Automated generation of context-specific Gene Regulatory Networks with a weighted approach in D. melanogaster Alberto Jesus Martin Reverse regression increases power for detecting trans-eQTLs Franco Simonetti |
| 1:05 pm | 2:05 pm | Lunch Break (open networking, system will be open with opportunity to ask for a breakout room) |
| 2:05 pm | 2:30 pm | Keynote: Genomics in Cancer Claudia Carranza |
| 2:30 pm | 2:45 pm | Stretch Break |
| 2:45 pm | 3:55 pm | Methods and Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology Moderator: Benilton Carvalho Virtual screening of potential kinase inhibitors within the PI3K/AKT pathway of Leishmania Rodrigo Ochoa Alignments of Biomolecular Contact Maps Peter F. Stadler Design and evaluation of an intelligent bioinformatics platform through a Geospatial Information and Machine Learning System using data from the qPCR molecular Diagnostic Tests of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Costa Rica and Central America Allan Orozco A mathematical model of the metabolism and accumulation of PZA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rydberg Supo-Escalante MOLECULAR DOCKING OF SARS-COV-2 RNA POLYMERASE REVEALS POTENT INHIBITORS OF REPLICATION MACHINERY THAN THE CURRENT REPOSITIONED DRUGS Cleidy Mirela Osorio Mogollón Predicted CoronaViruses Self-Interactome Completeness Correlates Inversely with their Transmissibility Gabriel Del Rio Identification of co-binder partners of different transcription factors using non-negative matrix factorization Jaime Castro-Mondragon GSER: A pipeline for genome size estimation and quality assessment of sequenced genome libraries Gonzalo Riadi |
| 3:55 pm | 4:00 pm |
Closing Remarks and Thank You |
