Distinguished Lectures
The Bioinformatics European Research Area (ERA) Chair Lecture Series are organized by the Bioinformatics ERA Chair at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING).
The major objective of this kind of lectures is to host distinguished scientists who present state-of-the-art research in the fields of Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, and Precision/Personalized Medicine to the scientific community of Cyprus.
The prestigious Bioinformatics European Research Area (ERA) Chair Lecture Series has been started and initially supported by the project BIORISE funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Forthcoming Lecture Details: TBA
List of given Lectures:
Prof. Constantine Dovrolis,
Director of the Center for Computational Science and Technology (CaSToRC), The Cyprus Institute (CyI)
“From multisensory integration to major depressive disorder –
leveraging the connectome and network modeling”
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EET
Dr Michalis Papadakis,
CEO and co-founder of Brainomix ,
a University of Oxford spinout award-winning AI Enabled Precision Medicine Company
“Transforming stroke treatment with AI-powered imaging”
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 15:00 EET
Prof. Mika Gustafsson
Senior lecturer in Translational Bioinformatics
Linköping University, Sweden
“Deep learning using omics repositories for identification of disease risk factors and genes”
Monday, October 30, 2023 at 15:00 EET
Dr. Ioannis Vlachos
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School,
Co-Director of the Bioinformatics Program, Cancer Research Institute, Director of Spatial Technologies, HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine,
Director of Bioinformatics, Precision RNA Medicine Core, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
“Spatial Biology:
A Revolution promising to transform Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice”
Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 15:00 EET
Dr. Panagiotis Alexiou
ERA Chair (Bioinformatics for Genomics) - University of Malta
“Developments in Machine Learning for -omics Analysis”
Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 16:00 EET
Prof. Christos N. Schizas
President of the National Authority for Electronic Health in Cyprus
“Ο περί Ηλεκτρονικής Υγείας Νόμος της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας και η Πρόταση Κανονισμού για τον Ευρωπαϊκό Χώρο Δεδομένων Υγείας”
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 14:00 EET
Prof. Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Soma Weiss, MD Distinguished Chair in Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Computational Network Pharmacology: Leveraging Big Data and Biomolecular Complexity”
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 15:00 EET
Prof. John Quackenbush
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,
Professor in the Channing Division of Network Medicine,
and Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Why Networks Matter: Embracing Biological Complexity”
Monday, March 14, 2022 at 16:00 EET
Dr Hongkui Zeng
Executive Vice President and Director,
Allen Institute for Brain Science
“Understanding Brain Cell Type Diversity”
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 17:00 EET
Prof. Avi Ma’ayan
Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
“Omics Integration for Drug and Target Discovery”
Monday, May 10, 2021 at 16:00 EET
Prof. Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Professor of Medical Bioinformatics
and Data Analysis
at the Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University and Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine
“Supporting machine learning with biological knowledge to extract insight from omics data”
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 15:00 EET
Assoc. Prof. Vivi Rottschäfer
Mathematical Institute, Leiden University,
The Netherlands
“Mathematics for the brain: Towards a 3D distribution model of drugs in the brain”
Monday, January 11, 2021 at 15:30 EET
Prof. Alfonso Valencia
Director of the Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute
“Computational Biology in the Crossroad of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing”
Wednesday, September 04, 2019 at 12:00 EET
Prof. Ioannis E. Antoniou
Director of the Department of Statistics and Operational Research, School of Mathematics, Aristotle University, Greece
“Network Analytics Tools”
Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 15:30 EET
Prof. Marios M. Polycarpou
Director, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
“From Machine Learning to Machine Diagnostics”
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 12:00 EET
Dr Irene Papatheodorou
Team Leader - Gene Expression,
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
“Expression Atlas: Gene Expression across cells, tissues, species”
Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 12:00 EET
Assoc. Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering and Head of the Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland
“Model-based data integration and analysis of complex metabolic networks”
Tuesday, April 02, 2019 at 12:00 EET
Dr Tõnu Esko
Vice Director, Institute of Genomics,
University of Tartu
Head of the Estonian Biobank Science Center
“From basic science to translational medicine – Estonian perspective”
Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 12:00 EET
Prof. Natasa Przulj
UCL Department of Computer Science
“Mining the Integrated Connectedness of Biomedical Systems”
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 11:00 EET
Dr Jörg Menche
Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
“From 18th Century Königsberg to 21st Century Medicine — The Success Story of Networks”
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 09:30 EET
Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller
Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics
Saarland University, University Hospital, Germany
“The role of miRNAs in human health and diseases”
Monday, April 23, 2018 at 12:00 EET
Prof. George Chrousos
Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology, Chairman, First Dept of Pediatrics,
Director, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes,
UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, University of Athens, Medical School, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital,
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, NICHD, NIH
“Stress as a Unique Paradigm in Systems Biology and Medicine”
Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 15:30 EET
Dr Maria Athelogou
Principal Scientist & Scientific Liaison Manager
Definiens AG, Munich, Germany
“Tissue and Imaging Phenomics: Applications”
Monday, October 30, 2017 at 16:00 EET
Dr Panayiota Poirazi
Research Director, Computational Biology Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
“Dendritic contributions to memory formation: insights from computational models”
Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 12:00 EET
Dr Nikos Kyrpides
Head of the Prokaryotic Super Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
“Microbiome Research: tales of big data in the micro world”
Monday, September 11, 2017 at 12:00 EET
Dr Inga Prokopenko
Senior Lecturer in Human Genomics, Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
“From genetics to multi-omics in studies of diabetes and other complex phenotypes”
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 12:00 EET