First Piedmont Bioinformatics Day

About

A symposium on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Computational Biology in Piedmont, open to researchers, students and practitioners.
This symposium will be the pivotal point for the creation of new synergies, providing a forum to discuss advancements and perspectives on all branches of bioinformatics in Piedmont region.

Registration is needed for researchers who want to participate.

place

Where

Molecular Biotechnology Center
Via Nizza 52, Torino
Aula Aristotele

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When

September 22nd, 2016
from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Program

9:15 - Welcome Reception
  • 09:30-10:00

    Enzo Medico
    Transcriptional profiling of colorectal cancer: challenges and opportunities

  • 10:00-10:30

    Alfredo Benso
    Enhancement and motif identification in regulatory networks

  • 10:30-11:00

    Paolo Provero
    New approaches to understand regulatory variation in the human genome

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break (offered by organisers)
  • 11:30-12:00

    Gianfranco Gilardi
    Proteomics and protein bioinformatics: functional analysis of human monoxygenases

  • 12:00-12:30

    Marco Scianna
    Individual cell-based models for cell migration and aggregation

  • 12:30-13:00

    Flavio Mignone
    A new NGS variant caller for low frequency variant detection

13:00-14:00 - Lunch
  • 14:00-14:45

    KEY NOTE Massimiliano Pagani
    Single Cell Transcriptomics to Assess Lymphocytes Identity in Health and Disease

  • 14:45-15:15

    Giovanna Chiorino
    Plasma circulating microRNA profiling for prostate cancer detection

  • 15:15-15:45

    Alberto Puliafito
    The physics of tissue growth regulation: from 2d cultures to animal models

  • 15:45-16:15

    Francesca Cordero
    Computational approaches to study intratumour heterogeneity of epithelial ovarian carcinomas

16:15-17:00 - Chatting with the speakers with light refreshment (offered by organisers)