bbc 2015

10th Benelux Bioinformatics Conference bbc 2015
Conference agenda 1/2
December 6, 2015: Satellite events
12.30 – 19.00 Student-run satellite meeting at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.
19.00 - … Guided sightseeing tour of Antwerp for early arrivals.
December 7, 2015: Main Conference
8.30 - 9.30 Registration and welcome coffee.
9.30 - 9.50
Welcome and conference opening, with foreword by UAntwerpen Rector Prof.
Alain Verschoren.
9.50 - 10.50
K1 Invited keynote: Lars Juhl Jensen. Medical data and text mining: Linking
diseases, drugs, and adverse reactions.
10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break.
Selected talks session 1
11.10 - 11.25
O1 Mafalda Galhardo, Philipp Berninger, Thanh-Phuong Nguyen, Thomas Sauter and Lasse
Sinkkonen. Cell type-selective disease association of genes under high regulatory load.
11.25 - 11.40
O2 Andrea M. Gazzo, Dorien Daneels, Maryse Bonduelle, Sonia Van Dooren, Guillaume
Smits and Tom Lenaerts. Predicting oligogenic effects using digenic disease data.
11.40 - 11.55
O3 Wouter Saelens, Robrecht Cannoodt, Bart N. Lambrecht and Yvan Saeys. A
comprehensive comparison of module detection methods for gene expression data.
11.55 - 12.10
O4 Joana P. Gonçalves and Sara C. Madeira. LateBiclustering: Efficient discovery of temporal
local patterns with potential delays.
12.10 - 12.30
C1 Nicolas Goffard. Illumina software platforms to transform the path to knowledge and
discovery. (Corporate presentation: Illumina)
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