Bioinformatics in Toruń 2017 — Programme

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BIT17 Programme

 
Venue Institute of Physics UMK, Grudziadzka 5 street, Toruń; COK Lecture Hall

Thursday, June 22th

12:00 - 12:25 Registration  
12:30 - 13:25 Lunch (included in registration fee)  
13:25 - 13:30 Conference opening / Welcome  
13:30 - 14:45

Session I

13:30 - 14:15 Opening lecture: Harel Weinstein, Cornell University, New York, USA "Formal representations and quantification of allostery in functional mechanisms of molecular machines"
14:15 - 14:45  Krzysztof Kuczera, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA Modeling of peptide permeation across biological membranes
14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break  
15:00 - 16:30

Session II

15:15 - 16:00 Wladek Minor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA  "Data mining in biomedical sciences - big data perspective"
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote speaker: Andrew Smith, ELIXIR Hub, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK ELIXIR Europe: progress so far and opportunities for engaging
16:35 - 16:40 Conference PHOTO at entrance to the Institute of Physics  
 16:40 - 17:30 Poster session & Coffee break
     
17:30 - 18:30

Session III

17:30 - 18:00 Dan Staines, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge, UK  "Ensembl data - going beyond the browser"
18:00 - 18:30 Bartosz Wilczynski, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland "Machine learning from genomic data: finding the needle in multiple haystacks"
18:45 - 19:45 PTBI Board of Directors meeting (for the Board only)  
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Pierogi Banquet/Get together in "Pierogarnia Stary Toruń" restaurant, Most Paulinski 2 street (food included)  
     

Friday, June 23th

     
9:15 - 10:30

Session IV

9:15 - 10:00 Keynote speaker: Weida Tong, The National Center for Toxicological Research and U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA "Make genomics reproducible again – understanding statistics underpinning reproducible genomics"
10:00 - 10:30 Sebastian Deorowicz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland "Flood of genomic (big) data"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30

Session V

11:15 - 11:30 Jarek Meller, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA "Harnessing advances in proteomics and data science to characterize biological states in cellular systems"
11:30 - 12:00 Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway "Efficient and cost-effective data-intensive computing on multi-clouds: introduction to the MELODIC project"
12:00 - 12:30 Zeynep Kurkcuoglu, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Integrative modelling of biomolecular complexes using HADDOCK
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch (included in registration fee)  Free sightseeing tour in English (1h 13:00-14:30)
15:00 - 16:00

Session VI

15:00 - 15:30 Jacek Błażewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland DNA sequencing - from SBH to Polish genome project
15:30 - 15:50 Michael R. Crusoe, University of California, Davis, USA Common workflow language
15:50 - 16:10 Karina Kubiak-Ossowska, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK "How to run not so big computer/data center: Management of tier-2 HPC: ARCHIE-WeST"
16:10 - 17:00

Poster session & Coffee break

     
17:00 - 18:45

Session VII

17:00 - 17:20 Maciej Antczak, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland New approaches for determination of RNA pseudoknot order
17:20 - 17:40 Marcin Radom, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Stochastic Petri model of a cholesterol metabolism and its analysis
17:40 - 17:55 Rafał Jakubowski, CENT, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland TBA
17.55 - 18:15 Francisco Carrascoza, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland "On the origins of life: theoretical studies of reactions catalyzed by montmorillonite on atmospheric-like gases"
18.15 - 18:45 Jiri Vondrasek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague / ELIXIR - Czechia, Czech Republic TBA
20:00 - 00:00 Conference social gathering at "Hotel Nicolaus Restaurant" , Ducha Świętego 14-16 street  
     

Saturday, June 24th

     
8:30 - 14:00 Coffee break  
8:30 - 10:30 Workshop I, COK Computer room  
  Zeynep Kurkcuoglu, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Protein-protein docking using HADDOCK
10:30 - 14:00 Workshop II, COK Computer room  
  Michael R. Crusoe, University of California, Davis, USA Common workflow language
11:00 - 14:00 Workshop III, Computer room no II.  
  Jarek Meller, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA Systems biology of cellular perturbations

Conference menu


Keynote speakers

  • Harel Weinstein, Cornell University, New York, USA
  • Weida Tong, The National Center for Toxicological Research and U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA
  • Andrew Smith, ELIXIR Hub, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Invited speakers

• Krzysztof Kuczera, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
• Wladek Minor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
• Dan Staines, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge, UK
• Bartosz Wilczynski, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• Sebastian Deorowicz, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
• Jarek Meller, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
• Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway
• Zeynep Kurkcuoglu, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Jacek Błażewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
• Karina Kubiak-Ossowska, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK