ISMB/ECCB 2017 - Distinguished Keynote Presentations




ISCB 2017 Innovator Award Keynote

Aviv Regev

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, United States

Presentation Title: Reconstructing Cellular Circuits: From Cells to Tissues
Time: Friday, July 21 — 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
Introduction by: Bonnie Berger, ISCB Vice President
Room: Forum



James Sharpe

EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Barcelona, Spain

Presentation Title: Dynamic computer modeling to span the scales: from molecular circuits to organogensis.
Time: Saturday, July 22 — 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Introduction by: Janet Thornton, ISMB/ECCB 2017 Conference Co-chair
Room: Forum




ISCB 2017 Overton Prize Award Keynote

Christoph Bock

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, Austria

Presentation Title: Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine: Looking Beyond the Ge-nome
Time: Sunday, July 23 — 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Introduction by: Thomas Lengauer, ISCB President Elect
Room: Forum


Zhiping Weng

Director, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, United States

Presentation Title: ENCODE Encyclopedia: Featuring a Registry of Candidate Regulatory Elements and the Visualization Tool SCREEN for Searching Them
Time: Monday, July 24 — 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Introduction by: Yves Moreau, ISMB/ECCB 2017 Conference Co-chair
Room: Forum




ISCB 2017 Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award Keynote

Pavel Pevzner

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, United States

Presentation Title Bioinformatics: a Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology?
Time: Tuesday, July 25 — 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Introduction by: Alfonso Valencia, ISCB President
Room: Forum