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Speaker: Geir Kjetil Sandve, Professor at the Centre for Bioinformatics, Department of informatics, University of Oslo
Everyone takes 2 minutes to share updates on the thematic areas they are currently working on.
Dr. Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Researcher at the Centre for Computational Biology (CBIO) of Mines ParisTech, Institut Curie, and INSERM, Paris, France, will present her work on "Network-guided genome-wide association studies."
Speaker: Geir Kjetil Sandve, Professor at the Centre for Bioinformatics, Department of informatics, University of Oslo
Dr. Wilbert Zwart, Group Leader at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, will present the lecture "Functional epigenomics in prostate cancer: for basic biology to clinical trials, and back again."
Speaker: Victor Greiff, Associate professor at the Department of Immunology, University of Oslo
Speaker: Ghadi Al Hajj , PhD student with Geir Kjetil Sandve at the Department of informatics, University of Oslo
Dr. Marcel Schulz, Professor for Computational Biology, Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Uniklinikum and Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, will present the talk "Understanding gene expression regulation by integration of epigenome and RNA data."
Dr. Esti Yeger-Lotem, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, will present her lecture "Elucidating disease mechanisms via their tissue-selectivity."
Dr. Juho Rousu, Professor in Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, will present the lecture "Machine Learning of Drug Combination Responses."
Dr. Shaun Mahony, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, Penn State University, USA, will present the lecture "Using neural networks to characterize the predeterminants of induced transcription factor binding sites."
Speaker: Jonas Paulsen , Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences & the Center for Bioinformatics, University of Oslo
Title: 3D and 4D genomes - what's next?
Dr. Ville Mustonen, Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland, will present the lecture "Using computational methods and evolutionary theory to combat drug resistance."
Dr. Evangelia Petsalaki, Group Leader at EMBL-EBI, will present the lecture entitled "Integrative studies of context-specific signalling."
Dr. Florian Markowetz, Group Leader of the Integrative Cancer Biology team at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK, will present his current research.
Dr. Matti Nykter, Professor at the Tampere University, Finland, will present the lecture "Computational analysis to understand aberrant gene expression and treatment induced responses in prostate cancer."
Dr. Colm Ryan, Assistant Professor at the University College Dublin, will present the lecture "Identifying robust genetic interactions in cancer."
Dr. Tero Aittokallio, Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Group Leader at the Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway, will present his lecture "Predictive modelling of drug combination effects for precision medicine."