A BioSapiens workshop : From Genome to Proteome and Biological Function

Wednesday April 2nd 2008 - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Schedule
10.30 – 11.00
Registration and coffee
11.00 – 12.00
Introduction to the challenges of interpreting genome and proteome data
Janet Thornton, EMBL Outstation - European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
12.00 – 12.45
Integrative themes: the human genome
Søren Brunak, BioCentrum-Technical University of Denmark
12.45 – 14.00
Lunch and poster session
14.00 – 14.45
Gene annotations and regulation
Ewan Birney, EMBL Outstation - European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
14.45 – 15.30
Protein annotations from sequence data
Christine Orengo, University College London, UK
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 16.45
Protein annotations from structure data
Anna Tramontano, University of Rome, Italy
16.45 – 17.30
Integrative themes: cancer and quantitative trait loci
Alfonso Valencia, CNIO-Spanish National Cancer Centre
19:30
Conference dinner

Program
http://www.biosapiens.info/page.php?page=biosapiens_workshop

Registration 
http://www.biosapiens.info/page.php?page=bs_work_reg

Poster
http://www.biosapiens.info/files/public/april_workshop/Biosapiens_poster_FINAL.pdf

Venue
The meeting takes place in the Salle Dupréel, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Jeanne, Brussels. 
Map and directions: 
http://www.ulb.ac.be/docs/campus/sol_S.html
http://www.ulb.ac.be/docs/campus/solaccp-uk.html

Fee
The registration fee is €80: this includes refreshments during the day, a light lunch, and dinner in the evening. 
Participants will be informed about the dinner venue later.

Participants are invited to submit a poster on their own work in this field. 
The dimensions of the poster boards are 1.9m x 0.9m. A short (100 word max) abstract will be requested when registering.

List of nearby hotels
https://plus21.safe-order.net/resotel/sysres/hotels.php?id=10925