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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


William Stafford Noble 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


Christophe Dessimoz 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


Bonnie Berger 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