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