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Day 5: Wednesday - March 21, 2012
Day 5: Wednesday - March 21, 2012
SESSION V. Biomedicine and Immunoinformatics.
Chair of Session: Alexis Kalergis (Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile)
Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Keynote Lecture IX: “Immune Epitope Database and
Analysis Resource Program: Proving Intuitive Access To
Comprehensive Epitope Data And Tools”
Alessandro Sette. La Jolla Institute for Allergy and
Immunology, USA.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM
Oral Presentations WM1-WM3
WM1 » MHCcluster, and method for functional clustering
of MHC molecules
Presenting Author: Morten Nielsen (Center for Biological
Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum, DTU)
Co-authors: Ole Lund (Center for Biological Sequence
Analysis, BioCentrum, DTU, Department of Systems biology);
Claus Lundegaard (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis,
BioCentrum, DTU, Department of Systems biology)
WM2 » A step towards pan-specific prediction methods for
MHC class II molecules: a projection of HLA-DR on to HLA-
DP and HLA-DQ
Presenting Author: Edita Karosiene (Technical University of
Denmark)
Co-authors: Morten Nielsen (Technical University of
Denmark, Department of Systems Biology)
WM3 » Systematic prediction of ligand-receptor pair across
the immunoglobulin superfamily using a novel sequence
homology measure
Presenting Author: Eng Hui Yap (Albert Einstein College of
Medicine)
Co-authors: Andras Fiser (Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Systems and Computational Biology); Tyler Rosche (Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, Systems and Computational
Biology)
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