Bioinformatics - Biomechanics

Day 1

*NB All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time

Day 1 - Session 1

Bioinformatics

Registration 8:45 - 9:00

9:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speaker - Majid Kazemian (Purdue University)

Dissecting biological pathways in COVID-19

10:00 - 10:20

Contributed Talk 1 - Y-h. Taguchi (Chuo University)

Kernel Tensor decomposition based unsupervised feature extraction applied to bioinformatics

10:20 - 10:40

Contributed Talk 2 - Zhen Wah Tan (Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR)

The chromatin regulatory landscape: From 1D and 2D, to 3D and beyond

10:40 - 11:00

Contributed Talk 3 - Sungsik Kong (Ohio State University)

Comparative performance of popular methods for hybrid detection using genomic data

11:00 - 11:20

Contributed Talk 4 - Luopin Wang (Purdue University)

Evaluating gene set enrichment analysis methods: from benchmark to best practices

11:20 - 11:40

Contributed Talk 5 - Benjamin Wölfl (University of Vienna)

Testing for natural selection using genealogy branch lengths

Lunch - Poster Session and Discussion

11:40 - 13:45

Day 1 - Session 2

Biomechanics

13:45 - 14:45

Keynote Speaker - Tim Higham (University of California, Riverside)

Models and motion: Leveraging biomechanics to understand patterns of diversity

14:45 - 15:05

Contributed Talk 1 - Giulio Lucci (Politecnico di Torino)

A biomechanical perspective on cell orientation under stretch

15:05 - 15:25

Contributed Talk 2 - Tomasz Turowski (University of Edinburgh)

A mathematical model of yeast RNA polymerase I elongation dissects forces affecting the transcription machinery

15:25 - 15:45

Contributed Talk 3 - Cole Zmurchok (Vanderbilt University)

Mechanosensing can enhance adaptation to maintain polarity of migrating cells

15:45 - 16:05

Contributed Talk 4 - Brydon Eastman (University of Waterloo)

Reinforcement learning derived chemotherapeutic schedules for robust patient-specific therapy