Keynote Presentations
* All talks are in the Auditorium
2013 Nobel Laureate - Chemistry
Stanford University
California, United States
Presentation Title: Fun With Large Structures and Masses of Sequence
Date/Time: Sunday July 12th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost, ISCB Past President
ISCB Overton Prize Award Keynote
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston;
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Presentation Title: Understanding microbial community function and the human microbiome in health and disease
Date/Time: Sunday July 12th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Bonnie Berger
Genome Biology Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Heidelberg, Germany
Presentation Title: Genome regulation during embryonic development
Date/Time: Monday July 13th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Janet Kelso
Kenneth H Wolfe (KN04)UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science
Conway Institute
University College Dublin, Ireland
Presentation Title: Reversible DNA rearrangement as a switch for cell type in yeasts
Date/Time: Monday July 13th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Des Higgins
Senior Scientist Award
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
United Kingdom
Presentation Title: How lucky I have been
Date/Time: Tuesday July 14th 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Introduction by: Alex Bateman
This special award presentation for Cyrus Chothia will feature short presentations from Arthur Lesk, Steven Brenner and Julian Gough followed by a short Q&A with Cyrus Chothia
Award Presentation by: Alfonso Valencia
ISCB Fellows Keynote
Professor and Director, Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva; and
Group leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Switzerland
Presentation Title: neXtProt 2015 highlights: SPARQL endpoint and biocuration efforts around the human protein variome
Date/Time: Tuesday July 14th 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by: Burkhard Rost