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  • Monday, 31 October 2011
    • 08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall - Room alternative: Desk, outside Kastler lecture room, Adriatico guest house lower level 1
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 11:00 For administrative formalities
      • 09:30 For administrative formalities 1h30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Opening
      • 11:00 Opening 30'
    • 11:30 - 13:00 Introduction to Virus Evolution and Cancer Genomics
      • 11:30 Introduction to Virus Evolution and Cancer Genomics 1h30'
        Speaker: R. Rabadan (Columbia University - NY, United States of America)
    • 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      • 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 16:00 From DNA Sequencing to Genomes: the Assembly Challenge
      • 14:30 From DNA Sequencing to Genomes: the Assembly Challenge 1h30'
        Speaker: G. Narzisi (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 18:00 Laboratory Tutorials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:30 Laboratory Tutorials 1h30'
        Speaker: Hossein KHIABANIAN & Rachel MELAMED (Columbia University, NY - United States of America)
    • 18:30 - 18:30 WELCOME PARTY
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 WELCOME PARTY
  • Tuesday, 1 November 2011
    • 09:30 - 11:00 DNA Sequencing Technologies: Past, Present, and Future
      • 09:30 DNA Sequencing Technologies: Past, Present, and Future 1h30'
        Speaker: A. Hassibi (University of Texas at Austin, United States of America)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 13:00 Introduction to Systems Biology - Examples from the ENFIN Consortium
      • 11:30 Introduction to Systems Biology - Examples from the ENFIN Consortium 1h30'
        Speaker: P. Kahlem (European Bioinformatics Institute - Cambridge, United Kingdom)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      • 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 16:00 Laboratory Tutorials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 14:30 Laboratory Tutorials 1h30'
        Speaker: Hossein KHIABANIAN & Rachel MELAMED (Columbia University - NY, United States of America)
  • Wednesday, 2 November 2011
    • 10:00 - 10:15 Conference Opening
      • 10:00 Conference Opening 15'
    • 10:15 - 11:00 Using Systems Biology to unravel Host-pathogen Interactions
      • 10:15 Using Systems Biology to unravel Host-pathogen Interactions 45'
        Speaker: S. Shapira (Columbia University, New York - USA)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Statistical physics approach to the prediction of native contacts in proteins from sequence variability
      • 11:30 Statistical physics approach to the prediction of native contacts in proteins from sequence variability 45'
        Speaker: R. Zecchina (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
    • 12:15 - 13:00 (How) can New Sequencing Technologies help Algorithmic/Executable Systems Biology?
      • 12:15 (How) can New Sequencing Technologies help Algorithmic/Executable Systems Biology? 45'
        Speaker: E. R. Mendoza (Univ. of the Philippines Diliman; and Univ. Ludwig Maximilians, Munich)
    • 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      • 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:15 Sequencing, Sequencing, and Sequencing
      • 14:30 Sequencing, Sequencing, and Sequencing 45'
        Speaker: Ning Li (BGI, Denmark)
    • 15:15 - 16:00 Life on the edge: Proteins are close to their solubility limits
      • 15:15 Life on the edge: Proteins are close to their solubility limits 45'
        Speaker: M. Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
    • 18:30 - 18:30 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 RECEPTION
  • Thursday, 3 November 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Reverse engineering whole-genome networks using high performance parallel computers
      • 09:30 Reverse engineering whole-genome networks using high performance parallel computers 45'
        Speaker: S. Aluru (S. Aluru, Iowa State University, USA; and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
    • 10:15 - 11:00 Tracking the Evolution of Influenza Viruses
      • 10:15 Tracking the Evolution of Influenza Viruses 45'
        Speaker: H. Khiabanian (Columbia University, NY - United States of America)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Cancer Genome Analysis Pipeline
      • 11:30 Cancer Genome Analysis Pipeline 45'
        Speaker: M. Vazquez (CNIO, Madrid)
    • 12:15 - 13:00 The Master Regulators of Stem Cells and Cancer in the Brain
      • 12:15 The Master Regulators of Stem Cells and Cancer in the Brain 45'
        Speaker: A. Iavarone (Columbia University - NY, United States of America)
    • 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      • 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:15 Genome-based drug re-purposing: a new golden age for DNA Microarrays?
      • 14:30 Genome-based drug re-purposing: a new golden age for DNA Microarrays? 45'
        Speaker: F. Iorio (EMBL-EBI Cambridge, United Kingdom)
    • 15:15 - 16:00 Nonlinear Representation of the Genome: Elastic Genome Browsers
      • 15:15 Nonlinear Representation of the Genome: Elastic Genome Browsers 45'
        Speaker: V. Chandru (Strand Life Sciences Private Limited - Bangalore, India)
  • Friday, 4 November 2011
    • 09:30 - 10:15 Refining simple fundamental ideas to produce medically useful techniques
      • 09:30 Refining simple fundamental ideas to produce medically useful techniques 45'
        Speaker: C. R. Cantor (SEQUENOM - CA, United States of America)
    • 10:15 - 11:00 Using next generation sequencing to unravel the forces shaping the genetic landscape in populations of S. cerevosoae
      • 10:15 Using next generation sequencing to unravel the forces shaping the genetic landscape in populations of S. cerevosoae 45'
        Speaker: D. Cavalieri (University of Florence, Italy)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:15 Advanced Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis Methods
      • 11:30 Advanced Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis Methods 45'
        Speaker: I. Gut (Centre Nacional d'Analisis Genomica - CNAG, Barcelona; Spain)
    • 12:15 - 13:00 Cis-regulatory Architecture of the Human Genome
      • 12:15 Cis-regulatory Architecture of the Human Genome 45'
        Speaker: John A. Stamatoyannopoulos (University of Washington, Seattle - United States of America)
    • 13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      • 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 1h30'