| Symposium “Computational Biology, From Genomes to Systems”, Santiago April 9 | ||
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| 09:20 – 09:30 | Francisco Melo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile |
“Opening/ Welcome” |
| Morning Session Chair: Rodrigo Gutiérrez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | ||
| 09:30 – 10:10 | Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany |
“Analysis of the human gut microbiome” |
| 10:10 – 10:50 | Lars Juhl Jensen The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Protein Research, Denmark |
“Medical Data Mining” |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK | 11:20 – 12:00 | Christian von Mering University of Zurich, Switzerland |
“Taking advantage of RNAi off-target effects: a new class of perturbation reagents” |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Warren Lathe III Open Helix, US |
“The Imperative of Diversity in Science: The necessity of broadening participation in the scientific endeavor”. |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | ||
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Francesca Ciccarelli Cancer Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Cancer Studies King’s College London, United Kingdom |
“Systems biology approach to identify novel anti-cancer therapeutic targets” |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil |
“Brazilian Bioinformatics activities in a nutshell” |
| 15:20 – 15:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Roland Krause University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
“Pharmacogenomics for epilepsy” |
| 16:30 – 17:10 | Shamil Sunyaev Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA |
“Human germ-line and cancer somatic mutation rates: biology, evolution and statistical genetics” |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | Final Discussion / Closing | |