BIOINFORMATICS AS A GROWTH ENGINE FOR GREECE
FINAL PROGRAM – INVITED TALKS
NOVEMBER 18 | TUTORIALS
- Claudine Médigue ➧ Genome annotation using the MicroScope platform (1.5 hrs)
- Folker Meyer ➧ MG-RAST tutorial (1.5 hrs)
- Alex Mitchell ➧ EBI Metagenomics tutorial (1.5 hrs)
- Nikos Kyrpides ➧ IMG tutorial (1.5 hrs)
- Victoria Newman ➧ Ensembl tutorial (1.5 hrs)
NOVEMBER 19 | SYSTEMS
- Session 1: genome analysis
- Hans-Peter Klenk ➧ Impact of genome analyses on taxonomy and systematics
- Alexandros Stamatakis ➧ Challenges & problems in phylogenetic inference and bioinformatics
Session 2: pathways & networks
- Costas Maranas ➧ Optimization methods in metabolic networks analysis and redesign
- Ugur Sezerman ➧ Identification of disease related pathways in complex diseases using multi omics data
- Hans-Peter Klenk ➧ Impact of genome analyses on taxonomy and systematics
- Session 3: community resources
- Guy Cochrane ➧ Sequence data handling: From global repository to local workbench
- Claudine Médigue ➧ Accurate microbial genome annotation using an integrated system for community expertise of gene functions
- Session 4: round table – Role of Greek Bioinformatics in Elixir
- Babis Savakis ➧ Elixir-GR
NOVEMBER 20 | OMICS
- Session 5: structural genomics
- Manuela Helmer-Citterich ➧ High-throughput analysis of RNA secondary structure: focus on protein-RNA interaction
- Anna Tramontano ➧ The computational analysis of protein structures: the case of antibodies
- Session 6: metagenomic technologies
- Folker Meyer ➧ Metagenomic analysis — new requirements and resolutions for the next 5 years
- Rob Finn ➧ Old school protein families in the new world of metagenomics analysis
- Session 7: metagenomic analysis
- Kostas Konstantinidis ➧ Beyond Ribosomal RNA genes: Community Tools for Analysis of Whole-Genomes and Metagenomes
- Maria Pilar Francino ➧ Microbial succession in the infant’s gut
- Session 8: society matters – Elections
NOVEMBER 21 | TECHNOLOGY
- Session 9: text-mining & ontologies
- Fay Christodoulou ➧ microRNAs as biomarkers: from literature buzz to clinical applications
- George Garrity ➧ Creating genomic super-meta-data from the scientific, technical and medical literature
Session 10: meta-analysis
- John Ioannidis ➧ Improving Reproducible Research Practices
- Session 11: industrial applications
- Nicolas Tsesmetzis ➧ Unravelling the microbial subsurface conversions: A metagenomics perspective
- Spiros Likothanassis ➧ InSyBio- Suite: A Platform Identifying Biomarkers that Enable Personalized Medicine
- Session 12: round-table – Bioinformatics as a growth engine for Greece
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