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Monday - Day 1 - April 9, 2018
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08:30 09:00 Registration
09:00 09:15 Welcome by Alfonso Valencia, BSC, Barcelona, ES and ISCB past president
09:15 09:20 Opening Address by Núria López-Bigas, IRB, Barcelona, ES
09:20 10:05 Keynote 1: Francesca D. Ciccarelli, King's College London, UK
"Systems biology to rebuild cancer evolution and identify new cancer genes"
Session 1: 10:05 - 12:350: Cancer Genomics
(chair: Núria López-Bigas)
    OP1 - A 10.000 sample overview of cancer driver events”
Eduard Porta, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, ES
    OP2 - “Systematic pan-cancer analysis of somatic allele frequency”
Anelia Horvath, George Washington University, USA
10:45 11:15 Coffee Break
    OP3 – “Sweepstake evolution revealed by population-genetic analysis of copy-number alterations in single genomes of breast cancer”
Daniel A Vasco, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, LU
    OP4 – “Mutated Tumor Suppressors Follow Oncogenes Profile by the Gene Hypermethylation of Partners in the Protein Interaction Networks”
Somnath Tagore, Bar-Ilan University, IL
    OP5 – “Network-based smoothing of somatic mutations improves patient classification from sparse genetic data”
Rosalba Giugno, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, IT
    OP6 – “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Research: a Never-ending Battle”
Santiago Guerrero, Centro de Investigación Genética y Genómica, EC
12:35 14:00 Lunch and Poster Viewing
14:00 14:05 Introduction by Cedric Notredame, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES
14:05 14:450 Keynote 2: Nicholas Luscombe, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Session 2: 14:50 - 18:40: Genetics and Transcriptomics
(chair: Cedric Notredame)
    OP07 – “Predicting disease-causing variant combinations accurately”
Tom Lenaerts, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BE
    OP08 – “Comprehensive sequencing of the myocilin gene in a selected cohort of primary open-angle glaucoma patients”
Luke O'Gorman, University of Southampton, UK
    OP09 – “GenePy: a gene score for next generation sequencing data modelling”
Enrico Mossotto, University of Southampton, UK
    OP10 – “Phenotype-driven variant prioritization significantly improves over impact and prevalence scores in a large-scale analysis of 1,963 cases of Mendelian disease diagnostics by whole-genome sequencing”
Francisco De La Vega, Stanford University, USA
    OP11 – “Dumpster diving in RNA-sequencing to find the source of 1 trillion reads across diverse adult human tissues”
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
16:30 17:00 Coffee break
    OP12 – “Identification and validation of novel and annotated LncRNAs in canine B-cell lymphoma by RNA-Seq”
Rosalba Giugno, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, IT
    OP13 – “Towards novel signalling functions of mobile mRNAs”
Federico Apelt, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, DE
    OP14 – “Understanding regulation of alternative splicing through RNA binding proteins”
Dmitri Pervouchine, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, RU
    OP15 – “Stratified co-morbidity networks: Inferring patient-specific comorbidities from transcriptomic data”
Vera Pancaldi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, ES
    OP16 – “bigSCale: An Analytical Framework for Big-Scale Single-Cell Data”
Giovanni Icano, CRG-CNAG, Barcelona, ES
18:40   Networking and Poster Presentations
20:00   Conference Dinner. Xiroi Ca la Nuri. Address: Passeig Marítim de la Nova Icària, 38.


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Tuesday - Day 2 - April 10, 2018
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08:45 09:00 Morning Welcome and Introduction
9:00 9:05 Introduction by Alfonso Valencia, BSC, Barcelona, ES
09:05 09:50 Keynote 3: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, UK
"A sequencing singularity of infection disease?"
Session 3: 09:50 - 13:00: Transcriptomics (II) and Model Organisms
(chair: Alfonso Valencia)
    OP17 – “Reference-free reconstruction and error correction of transcriptomes from Nanopore long-read sequencing”
Eduardo Eyras, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, ES
    OP18 – “3D determinants of gene expression variability”
Vera Pancaldi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, Spain
10:30 11:00 Coffee Break
    OP19 – “Study of genome evolution among traditional bakery yeasts in relation to domestication”
Colin Tinsley, Inra, France
    OP20 – “Weighted correlation network analysis and transcriptome dynamics during early gonadal differentiation of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)”
Núria Sánchez-Baizán, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, ES
    OP21 – “NGS-based resequencing and reannotation of the Trypanosoma congolense genome and trancriptome”
Marcin Jąkalski, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdańsk, PL
    OP22 – “High quality genome of a Norwegian reindeer using 10X Genomics”
Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University,
Kiel, DE
    OP23 – “Genomic characterisation and vulnerabilities of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils”
Maximilian Stammnitz, University of Cambridge, UK
    OP24 – “Genome diversity and evolution in a transmissible cancer”
Adrian Baez-Ortega, Transmissible Cancer Group, University of Cambridge, UK
13:00 14:00 Lunch and Poster Viewing
Session 4: 14:00 - 16:40: Multi-Omics & Metagenomics
(chair: Francisco De La Vega)
    OP25 – “Single cell systems immunology of viral specific B cells and CD8+ T cells”
Simone Rizzetto, School of Medical Science, UNSW, AU
    OP26 – “Toward decoding complete human immunome. Assemble recombined T and B cell receptor sequences across 50,000 individuals”
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    OP27 – “Detection of radiation-Induced alterations in the transcriptome and Exome of human gingiva fibroblasts”
Neetika Nath, University Medicine Greifswald, DE
    OP28 – “Corrections for asymmetry in high-throughput sequencing datasets applied to a meta-transcriptome dataset”
Greg Gloor, U. Western Ontario, CA
    OP29 – “Fast and sensitive protein sequence search, clustering and assembly tools for the analysis of massive metagenomics datasets”
Martin Steinegger, Max-Planck-Institute, DE
15:40 16:00 Coffee Break
    OP30 – “Characterizing the microbiome in factory ingredient samples using metatranscriptome deep sequencing data”
Kristen Beck, IBM, USA
    OP31 – “The challenges of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines in the identification of Antimicrobial Resistance determinants using next generation sequencing technologies”
Alexandre Angers, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, IT
16:40 16:45 Introduction by Francisco De La Vega, Stanford University, USA
16:45 17:25 Keynote 3: Ami Bhatt, Stanfod University, USA
"Translating metagenomics"
17:25   Awards and closing remarks


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Wednesday - Day 3 - April 11, 2018
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Workshop: 09:00 - 16:00  Compositionally Appropriate Analysis of Transcriptome, Metagenome, and Microbiome Datasets
Instructors:  Greg Gloor, Jean Macklaim, and Ionas Erb
12:00 13:00 Lunch

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