Dear colleagues, Please find hereby the announcement of the Annual General Meeting of the Inter-University Attraction Pole BioMagnet (IAP 6/25 funded by the Belgian Scientific Policy). Full program and registration at http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/biomagnet/. Best regards Jacques van Helden Jacques.van.Helden@ulb.ac.be http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/Users/jvanheld/ Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe) Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP263 Boulevard du Triomphe, Accès 2, Campus Plaine. B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium BioMagnet general meeting 2011 Bridging the gap between bioinformatics and modeling Monday March 21 from 10h to 18h Université Libre de Bruxelles Auditorium Solvay, Building NO, Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe Access 2, 1050 Brussels http://www.ulb.ac.be/campus/plaine/plan-NO.html Practical info Registration: before March 11 on the Web site (http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/biomagnet/). Poster registration: a short abstract (1/2 page) should be sent to Myriam Loubriat (mloubria@ulb.ac.be) before March 11. Note that the space for posters will be limited. Registration fee: 20€/ for external participants (i.e. non-members of the BioMagnet consortium). The fee covers the sandwich lunch + 2 coffee breaks + welfare drink. Preliminary program 9:30 Welcome of the participants 10:00-12:30 Morning session 10:00-10:10 Introductory talk (Jacques van Helden) 10:10-10:50 Albert Goldbeter and Claude Gérard (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Dynamics of the network of cyclin-dependent kinases driving the mammalian cell cycle 10:50-11:10 Coffee break 11:10-11:50 Yvan Saeys (Universiteit Gent) Large scale text mining challenges for systems biology. 11:50-12:30 Yves Moreau (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Genomic variation for genetic diagnosis. 12:30-14:00 Sandwich lunch + posters (+ coordination meeting for the BioMagnet PIs + BELSPO representative) 14:00-17:30 Afternoon session 14:00-14:50 Keynote speaker: David Rand (Director, Centre for Systems Biology, Warwick University, UK) Stress in plants and humans: from time-series (and genomes) to networks 14:50-15:30 Pierre Geurts (Université de Liège) From genomes to networks by using tree-based supervised learning methods - GENIE3 within the DREAM4 and DREAM5 challenges 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-16:40 Florence d'Alché-Buc (Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Evry, France) A new Bayesian estimation method of parameters in ordinary differential equations for biological networks 16:40-17:20 Denis Thieffry (Université de la Méditerrannée, Marseille, France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) Logical modelling of haematopoietic cell fate specification and reprogramming 17:20-17:30 Bart De Moor (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) The BioMagnet project: achievements and perspectives.End of the workshop 17:30-18:00 Farewell drink