EPD meeting, September 2016

Scientific Program

Preliminary program schedule, still subject to slight changes

08:45 - 08:50 Welcome - Introduction
09:05 - 10:30 Promoter structure and function:

Talks:

  • Martha Bulyk: Harvard University (USA)
    TBD
  • Bas van Stensel: Netherlands Cancer Institute (Netherlands)
    TBD
  • Torrey Rhyne-Carrigg: University of California San Diego (USA)
    The RNA Polymerase II Core Promoter in Bilateria
  • Andrey Buyan: Institute of Protein Research, RAS (Russia)
    Joint Promoterome-Proteome Atlas
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break + posters
11:00 - 12:30 Technological advances in promoter research:

Talks:

  • Alexander Stark: IMP, Vienna BioCenter (Austria)
    TBD
  • Yaron Orenstein: Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
    Designing synthetic universal promoter sequences
Round table discussion:

  • What is a promoter, what is an enhancer?
  • Can we predict gene regulatory function from DNA sequence?
  • Can we engineer promoters with desired regulatory properties?
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch + posters
13:30 - 15:00 TSS prediction challenge:

Talks 1 - Background:

  • Sascha Duttke: Washington State University (USA)
    Keynote on promoteromics
  • TBD:
    Lessons from the IBIS challenge
Talks 2 - Challenge presentation:

  • Philipp Bucher: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ( Switzerland)
    Challenge overview
  • Vsevolod Makeev: Cancer Research UK, Manchester (UK)
    Data formats, performance metrics, challenge rules and timeline
Question session for prospective challenge participants
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break + posters
15:30 - 17:10 Sunsetting of EPD, next-generation biodata resources:

  • Christophe Dessimoz Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)
    The future of biodata resources
  • Philipp Bucher Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)
    EPD today, outlook to the future
  • Julia Naas: Helmholtz Munich, Germany)
    Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis: Building a Community-Driven, Living Benchmarking Platform
Round table discussion:

  • What should a future biodata ecosystem look like?
  • FAIR principles in the era of AI agents
  • Role of publishers and funders in data-driven research
17:10 - 17:15 Closing remarks