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Program

Overview

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

  • Satellite Workshops on Jena’s Beutenberg Campus
  • DECHEMA board meeting
  • Welcome Reception

 Thursday, 20 September 2012

  • Morning Session
  • Afternoon Session
  • Social Event: Guided Walks

Friday, 21 September 2012

  • Morning Session
  • Afternoon Session
  • Sponsor Presentations
  • GI board meeting
  • GBM board meeting
  • Poster Session / Poster Party

Saturday, 22 September 2012

  • Morning Session
  • Closing / Award of Best Poster Prize

The conference program can be downloaded here.

 

Program

 Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Five satellite workshops take place on Jena’s Beutenberg Campus. See the workshops’ page for further information. Details on the programs and venues will be available soon.

16:00      DECHEMA board meeting (Beutenberg Campus, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI-Center for Systems Biology of Infection)

19:00 – 21:00     Welcome Reception

Conference participants are invited to meet in the atrium of the university main building (Fürstengraben 1, 07743 Jena) to enjoy jazzy music and Thuringian barbecue specialties.

An opportunity to check in and to pick up the conference documents will be provided.

 

 

The main conference takes place on the central Ernst-Abbe-Platz Campus. Talks will be held in lecture hall 2, unless otherwise stated.

R … Regular Paper
H … Highlight

Thursday, 20 September 2012

8:00 Registration opens, poster mounting
9:00 Welcome (Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke, Rector of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
9:10 Opening (Stefan Schuster and Sebastian Böcker, Program Chairs)
Session Chair: Dmitrij Frishman
9:15 KEYNOTE
Computational regulatory genomics
Martin Vingron (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)
10:00 Dynamic modeling resolves complex hormonal crosstalk in infected plants (H)
Muhammad Naseem, Dominik Schaack and Thomas Dandekar
10:25 Two new perspectives on NAD metabolism (H)
Toni I. Gossmann, Mathias Ziegler, Pal Puntervoll, Luis F. de Figueiredo, Stefan Schuster and Ines Heiland
10:50 Coffee break
Session Chair: Antje Krause
11:20 ModeScore: A method to infer changed activity of metabolic function from transcript profiles (R)
Andreas Hoppe and Hermann-Georg Holzhütter
11:45 Image-based systems biology: A quantitative approach to elucidate the kinetics of fungal morphologies and virulence (H)
Franziska Mech and Marc Thilo Figge
12:10 Comparing fragmentation trees from electron impact mass spectra with annotated fragmentation pathways (R)
Franziska Hufsky and Sebastian Böcker
12:35 Lunch break
Session Chair: Knut Reinert
14:00 KEYNOTE
Comprehensive metabolomic databases and annotation workflows: The U.S. West Coast Metabolomics Center
Oliver Fiehn (University of California, Davis, USA)
14:45 Identifying the unknowns by aligning fragmentation trees (H)
Florian Rasche, Kerstin Scheubert, Franziska Hufsky, Thomas Zichner, Marco Kai, Aleš Svatoš, and Sebastian Böcker
15:10 KeyPathwayMiner – Combining OMICS data and biological networks (H)
Josch Pauling, Nicolas Alcaraz, Alexander Junge and Jan Baumbach
15:35 Coffee break
Session Chair: Falk Schreiber
16:00 MetaboLights: Towards a new COSMOS of metabolomics data management (H)
Kenneth Haug, Reza Salek, Pablo Conesa, Paula de Matos, Tejasvi Mahendraker, Eamonn Maguire, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Julian Griffin and Christoph Steinbeck
16:25 Finding characteristic substructures for metabolite classes (R)
Marcus Ludwig, Franziska Hufsky, Samy Elshamy and Sebastian Böcker
16:50 A two-step soft segmentation procedure for MALDI imaging mass spectrometry data (R)
Ilya Chernyavsky, Theodore Alexandrov, Peter Maass and Sergey Nikolenko

Social event: Guided walks through Jena’s center start at 18:30 and 20:00.

Friday, 21 September 2012

Session Chair: Jens Stoye
9:00 KEYNOTE
A democracy of transcription factors: Inferring transcription regulatory interactions from high-throughput data
Erik van Nimwegen (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
9:45 How little do we actually know? – On the size of gene regulatory networks (H)
Richard Röttger and Jan Baumbach
10:10 Out of (transcriptional) control? Design principles of the regulatory network controlling metabolic pathways in Escherichia coli (H)
Frank Wessely, Martin Bartl, Reinhard Guthke, Pu Li and Christoph Kaleta
10:35 Building and documenting workflows with Python-based snakemake (R)
Johannes Köster and Sven Rahmann
11:00 Coffee break
Session Chair: Stefan Kurtz
11:30 Online transitivity clustering of biological data with missing values (R)
Richard Röttger, Christoph Kreutzer, Thuy Duong Vu, Tobias Wittkop and Jan Baumbach
11:55 ConReg: Analysis and visualization of conserved regulatory networks in eukaryotes (R)
Robert Pesch, Matthias Böck, and Ralf Zimmer
12:20 Designing q-unique DNA sequences with integer linear programs and Euler tours in de Bruijn graphs (R)
Marianna D’Addario, Nils Kriege and Sven Rahmann
12:45 Lunch break
Session Chair: Sven Rahmann
14:15 KEYNOTE
Exploring the sampling universe of RNA-seq
Arndt von Haeseler (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria)
15:00 Polyglutamine and polyalanine tracts are enriched in transcription factors of plants (R)
Nina Kottenhagen, Lydia Gramzow, Fabian Horn, Martin Pohl and Günter Theißen
15:25 Readjoiner: a fast and memory efficient string graph-based sequence assembler (H)
Giorgio Gonnella and Stefan Kurtz
15:50 Sponsor Presentation
Better computing for better bioinformatics
Ernst M. Mutke (HMK-Supercomputing, Convey Computer)
16:00   GI meeting
(Room 222, second floor)
17:00   GBM meeting
(Room 222, second floor)
(DECHEMA meeting:
19.09. Beutenberg)
18:00 Poster session with “poster party”
18:00 Even numbers
19:00 Odd numbers

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Session Chair: Ina Koch
9:00 KEYNOTE
Structural proteome scale prediction of protein-protein interactions using interfaces
Ruth Nussinov (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA)
9:45 Computation and visualization of protein topology graphs including ligand information (R)
Tim Schäfer, Patrick May and Ina Koch
10:10 Unbiased protein interface prediction based on ligand diversity quantification (R)
Reyhaneh Esmaielbeiki and Jean-Christophe Nebel
10:35 Footprints of modular evolution in a dense taxonomic clade (H)
Andrew Moore and Erich Bornberg-Bauer
11:00 Coffee break
Session Chair: Burkhard Morgenstern
11:30 KEYNOTE
The draft genome sequence of Amborella trichopoda sheds light on the ancestral angiosperm genome
Claude dePamphilis (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA)
12:15 Closing Remarks, Award of Best Poster Prize
12:30 — the End —