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