ISMB/ECCB 2019 - Distinguished Keynote Presentations

Nikolaus Rajewsky

Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Berlin-Buch, Germany

Presentation Title: Principles of gene regulation in space and time by single-cell analyses.
Introduction by: Thomas Lengauer, ISCB President
Time: Sunday, July 21, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Room: San Francisco

ISCB Innovator Award Keynote

William Stafford Noble

Department of Genome Sciences; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Presentation Title: Traveling across spaces: the power of embedding genomic and proteomic data into a latent space
Introduction by: Ron Shamir, Chair, ISCB Awards Committee
Time: Monday, July 22, 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Room: San Francisco

Alexis Battle

Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science
John Hopkins University
Baltimore, United States

Presentation Title: Modeling the complex impact of common and rare genetic variation on gene expression
Introduction by: Nicola Mulder, ISMB/ECCB Conference Co-chair
Time: Tuesday, July 23, 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Room: San Francisco

ISCB Overton Prize Award Keynote

Christophe Dessimoz

SNSF Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Associate Professor, University College London, United Kingdom
Group leader, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics

Presentation Title: Challenges and rewards of benchmarking – how to cope with a biased, incomplete, or even entirely missing ground truth
Introduction by: Torsten Schwede, ISMB/ECCB Conference Co-chair
Time: Wednesday, July 24, 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Room: San Francisco

ISCB Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award Keynote

Bonnie Berger

Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States

Presentation Title: Biomedical Data Sharing and Analysis at Scale
Introduction by: Thomas Lengauer, ISCB President
Time: Thursday, July 25, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: San Francisco