The XII Symposium on Bioinformatics:“Bioinformatics: The New Breed”.

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The XII Symposium on Bioinformatics (XII Jornadas de Bioinformática) will take place on 21-24 September in Sevilla, Spain, at cicCartuja (CSIC-US).Over the last decade, the jornadas have received remarkable submissions from computational groups that have led to new biological discoveries. With the aim of encouraging the participation of younger bioinformaticians, this year symposium's main theme is “Bioinformatics: The New Breed”.

Keynotes

The Raes lab combines large-scale, next-generation sequencing with novel computational approaches to investigate the functioning and variability of the healthy human microbiome at the systems level and study its alteration in disease. In this context, we recently discovered the existence of discrete gut flora types (enterotypes), that are independent of host properties such as nationality, sex or race and are studying the predictive power of microbial markers for various intestinal diseases. In addition, we focus on the development of computational methods for the analysis of (next-generation) sequence data and the investigation of community properties from metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and meta-metabolomics data, which are applied in a wide range of environments (ocean, soil, etc.).

Ben Lehner is an ICREA Research Professor at the EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Program at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. He has a degree and a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The main interest of his lab is the genetics and biology of individuals: can we make accurate predictions about how individuals differ from their genome sequences, and why is this often impossible? The lab is funded by the ERC, the EU, and grants from the Spanish and Catalan governments. He was awarded the Banco Sabadell Prize for Biomedical Sciences, the City of Barcelona Prize for Science, the FEBS Anniversary Prize and is an EMBO Young Investigator.

Following a degree in Natural Sciences at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (1993-1996), Nick studied for a Ph.D. with Janet Thornton at UCL (1996-2000) on the basis for specificity of DNA-binding proteins. He then moved to Yale University, USA, as an Anna Fuller Postdoctoral Fellow with Mark Gerstein (2000-2005), where he shifted research focus to genomics with a particular emphasis on yeast transcriptional regulation. He was a Group Leader at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (2005-2012) in Cambridge and built a computational biology laboratory with an emphasis on genomics and gene regulation. During this time, he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology as an Adjunct Faculty to establish a small group focused on developmental regulation (2011-present). He has now recently returned to UCL as a Chair in Computational Biology in the UCL Genetics Institute and holds a joint appointment as a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. His laboratory will be joining the Francis Crick Institute in 2015.

Mihaela Zavolan is Professor in the Bioinformatics Division of the Biozentrum Basel. She leads a group whose focus is the computational study of the regulatory networks leading to tissue-specific expression of protein forms. The current projects in her lab are aimed at development of computational tools for the discovery of transcription regulatory modules, of splice regulatory signals, and of small regulatory RNAs.

Abstract Submission

Abstract topics

• Metagenomics (A)
• Integrative Biology (B)
• Medical Informatics (C)
• Phylogeny/Evolution (D)
• Structure/function (E)
• Highlights (H)
• Student Symposium (S)

Among these topics, you will be required to first select the topic most closely related to your work and then a second topic also related to your work. If you submit a Highlight, you must upload the full article.

Number of Submissions

• Two abstract submissions allowed per presenting author.

Title and Abstract Length

• The abstract title is limited to 150 characters (aprox. 20 words). Abstract body should be no more than 2500 characters (aprox. 350 words), not including the title.

Abstract Presentation

• Only a limited number of oral presentations are possible. The scientific committee will decide whether your work will be presented via oral or poster. During your registration, please indicate if you are happy to present your work as an oral or as a poster.

Abstract Publication

• Approved abstracts will be included in the proceedings

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