ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2015
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Subject to adjustment as needed
| Go directly to: [Tuesday - March 10] [Wednesday - March 11] | ||
| MONDAY – March 09, 2015 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:45 am | 09:00 am | Opening Welcome |
| SESSION 1: Search and Design of Vaccine and Drugs Chair: Ezekiel Adebiyi 09:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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| 09:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote Presentation: Michal Linial Good Things Come in Small Packages – Replicators and Innovators |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am | 11:00 am | Ruben Earl Cloete Homology modeling of the M. tuberculosis potential drug target nicotinate-nucleotide adenylyltransferase (Rv2421c) and docking studies to identify novel inhibitors |
| 11:00 am | 11:20 am | Gaston Kuzamunu Mazandu Optimal searching for drug therapy against Ebola Virus Disease |
| 11:20 am | 11:40 am | Emna S. Harigua In silico screening and biochemical selection of small molecules targeting the Leishmania eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4A |
| 11:40 am | 12:00 pm | Natasha Wood The 3D structure and molecular dynamics of the HIV-1 g120 'glycan shield' from different subtypes |
| 12:00 pm | 02:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| SESSION 2: Host/Pathogen Systems Biology Chair: Geoffrey Attardo 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm |
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| 14:20 | 14:40 | Oussema Souiai Can genomic context improve phage gene annotations? |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Angela Uche Makolo Computational Identification of Signaling Pathways in Protein Interaction Networks |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Itunuoluwa Marian Isewon In-silico Discovery of Transcriptional Regulators in Plasmodium falciparum. |
| 15:20 | 15:40 | Marion Olubunmi Adebiyi Computational Analysis of Anopheles gambiae Metabolism to Facilitate Insecticidal Target Discovery |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Jandouwe Villinger Discovery of a new clade of Anopheles specific flaviviruses and the first Wesselsbron virus in Kenya by novel pan-arbovirus multiplex high resolution melting analysis |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 04:30 pm | 05:30 pm | Keynote Presentation: Matthew Berrimann The impact of genome sequencing on the study of parasites |
| TUESDAY – March 10, 2015 |
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| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:45 am | 09:00 am | Opening Welcome |
| SESSION 3: Molecular Epidemiology and Evolution Chair: Anne Fischer 09:00 am - 12:30 pm |
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| 09:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote Presentation: Tom Gilbert Archaeomicrobiology in the genomic era |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am | 11:00 am | Yvonne Amaya Rapid and high throughput molecular identification of diverse mosquito species by High Resolution Melting analysis |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Imogen Wright NOAH: A novel guide tree ordering and progressive alignment heuristic |
| 11:20 | 11:40 am |
Fredrick Nindo Re-assortment patterns among global Influenza A, B and C viruses circulating between 1927-2013 |
| 11:40 am | 12:00 pm | James Otieno Evolutionary dynamics of group A respiratory syncytial virus through long-term surveillance at the Kenyan Coast: Insights into viral persistence |
| 12:00 pm | 02:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| 01:00 pm | 02:00 pm | ISCB and ASBCB Open Business Meeting |
| SESSION 4: Bioinformatics of Human Genetics Chair: Julie Makani 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm |
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| 14:00 | 14:20 | Wojciech Makalowski Nanopore Sequencing for Genotyping Pathogens of Tropical Diseases |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Darlington Shingirirai Mapiye Computational genomics approaches for Kidney disease in Africa |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Matthew James Betts Predicting the mechanistic impact of mutations and modifications on molecular interactions |
| 15:20 | 15:40 | Ben Hamda Cherif A meta-analysis of genotype and phenotype data related to sickle cell disease to understand the biology of the disease |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Howard Cash Considerations in the Design and Management of DNA Databases for Human Identification |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 04:30 pm | 05:30 pm | Keynote Presentation: Michèle Ramsay African Human Genome Data: Enhancing biomedical research on the continent |
| 05:45 PM | 07:00 PM | HAPPY HOUR TONIGHT!!! Drinks and Appetizers |
| WEDNESDAY – March 11, 2015 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:45 am | 09:00 am | Opening Welcome |
| SESSION 5: The Glossina Genome Chair: TBD 09:00 am - 10:00 am |
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| 09:00 am | 09:20 am | Geoffrey Attardo The sequencing and annotation of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) genome, a ten year international effort. |
| 09:20 am | 09:40 am | George Obiero Reduced chemosensory receptors of tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans |
| 09:40 am | 10:00 am | Rosaline Wanjiru Macharia Comparative Analysis of Tsetse's Chemosensory Repertoire |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| SESSION 6: Functional and Structural Genomics Chair: Nicola Mulder 10:30 am - 12:30 pm |
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| 11:00 | 11:20 am | Caleb Kipkurui Kibet Comparative analysis of transcription factor binding sites assessment approaches |
| 11:20 am | 11:40 am | Kevin Premsingh Persand Analysis of virulence genes conserved across M. tuberculosis strains |
| 11:40 am | 12:00 pm | Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo Supervised Classification of Viral Genomes based on Restriction Site Distribution |
| 12:00 pm | 02:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| SESSION 7: Database and Resource Development Chair: Manuel Corpas 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm |
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| 14:00 | 14:20 |
Tatyana Goldberg
Prediction of protein sub-cellular localization using LocTree3
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| 14:20 | 14:40 | Gustavo Adolfo Salazar Orejuela A web-based protein interaction network visualizer |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Shakuntala Baichoo Infect-DB – A genome data warehouse for infectious diseases |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Philip A. Oyier Efficient Mobile Data Collection and Storage Using Open Data Kit Collection Suite for Kenyan Indigenous Poultry Databank |
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15:40 |
Lynette Hirschman Hybrid curation of gene-mutation relations combining automated extraction and crowdsourcing |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 04:30 pm | 05:30 pm | Keynote Presentation: Roderic Guigo Transcriptome variation across tissues and individuals |
| 05:30 pm | 05:45 pm | Awards and Closing |
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