Program
| Wednesday, 26 June | |
| 09:00 - 13:00 | Workshop BITS2019-ANALYSIS OF BIG OMICS DATA |
| 13:00 | Registration and poster hang-up |
| 14:00 |
Opening remarks
- Prof. Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo
- Ing. Giuseppe De Pietro, CNR-ICAR Director - Prof. Livan Fratini, University of Palermo Pro-rector for research |
Systems Biology, Biological data integration and Biological Networks chair(s) Barillot, La Paglia |
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| 14:15 - 15:00 | Emmanuel Barillot invited speaker Some new challenges in computational molecular oncology |
| 15:00 | Gaia Ceddia |Oral Presentation| Network-based approach to identify new indications for existing drugs in the DrugBank database |
| 15:15 | Paolo Mignone |Oral Presentation| Transfer Learning for Gene Network Reconstruction |
| 15:30 | Marco Del Giudice |Oral Presentation| Integrative analysis of multi-Omics data reveals that the dysregulation of splicing-related proteins in prostate cancer is controlled by FOXA1 |
| 15:45 | Stefano Caruso |Oral Presentation| Integrated multi-omics data analysis to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities in liver cancer cell lines. |
| 16:00 | Davide Cangelosi |Oral Presentation| PIPE-T: A new Galaxy tool for analyzing RT-qPCR expression data |
| 16:15 | Claudia Caudai |Oral Presentation| Chromatin 3D reconstruction with ChromStruct: a method integrating Hi-C, ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq data |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | BITS members meeting |
| Thursday, 27 June | |
Gene regulation, proteomics, transcriptomics and epigenomics chair(s) Fiannaca, La Rosa |
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| 09:30 | Greta Romano |Oral Presentation| Exploiting machine learning techniques for genes signature discovery from single cell data |
| 09:45 | Giovanna Rosone |Oral Presentation| Metagenomic analysis through the eBWT |
| 10:00 | Castrense Savojardo |Oral Presentation| A deep-learning method for predicting internal mitochondrial localization of proteins |
| 10:15 | Elisa Mariella |Oral Presentation| The length of the expressed 3’ UTR is an intermediate molecular phenotype linking genetic variants to complex diseases |
| 10:30 | Eugenio Del Prete |Oral Presentation| FROM GEENA2 TO GEENAR: A USER FRIENDLY WEB TOOL FOR MALDI-TOF MASS SPECTRA MANAGEMENT |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Presentation of BITS 2020 |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
Bioinformatics challenge in precision medicine chair(s) Bicciato, Urso |
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| 11:30 - 12:15 | Silvio Bicciato invited speaker Integrative bioinformatics for precision medicine |
| 12:15 | Valentina Bravatà |Oral Presentation| A radiogenomic approach to improve personalized radiation treatments. |
| 12:30 | Arnaud Ceol |Oral Presentation| An overview of the clinical bioinformatics landscape in Italy |
| 12:45 | Barbara Di Camillo |Oral Presentation| MAST: A MULTI-AGENT BASED SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODEL OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN IMMUNE SYSTEM AND TUMOR GROWTH |
| 13:00 | Massimo La Rosa |Oral Presentation| Extending miRTissue web service with ceRNA-ceRNA interactions analysis |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Lunch |
Algorithms in Bioinformatics chair(s) Sharan, Lo Bosco |
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| 14:15 - 15:00 | Roded Sharan invited speaker Harnessing protein networks to elucidate disease mechanisms |
| 15:00 | Isabella Mendolia |Oral Presentation| Virtual Screening of Molecular Fingerprint through Convolutional Neural Networks |
| 15:15 | Riccardo Rizzo |Oral Presentation| A Deep Neural network for extracting features from DNA nucleosome-forming sequences |
| 15:30 | Simone Tiberi |Oral Presentation| BANDITS: Bayesian ANalysis of DIfferenTial Splicing A Bayesian hierarchical model for differential splicing accounting for sample-to-sample variability and mapping uncertainty |
| 15:45 | Eirini Stamoulakatou |Oral Presentation| Identification of active Mutational Signatures on transcript factor binding profiles |
| 16:00 | Luca Denti |Oral Presentation| MALVA: genotyping by Mapping-free ALlele detection of known VAriants |
| 16:15 | Marco Beccuti |Oral Presentation| A computational model for studying the effects of different vaccine policies on pertussis epidemiology |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | YOUNG BITS Event |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Social Activity |
| 20:15 | Social Dinner |
| Friday, 28 June | |
Biological Big Data Analytics chair(s) Giancarlo, Rizzo |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 | Raffaele Giancarlo invited speaker DNA combinatorial messages and Epigenomics: The case of chromatin organization and nucleosome occupancy in eukaryotic genomes |
| 09:45 | Marco Antonio Tangaro |Oral Presentation| Laniakea@ReCaS: an ELIXIR-IT Galaxy on-demand cloud service |
| 10:00 | Silvio Tosatto |Oral Presentation| ModiDB 3.0: intrinsic disorder annotation and integration in UniProtKB |
| 10:15 | Claudia Coronnello |Oral Presentation| The ComiR web-tool ready for an upgrade: the detection of new features to improve the prediction of microRNA targets |
| 10:30 | Simona E. Rombo |Oral Presentation| Tripartite graph clustering for the prediction of lncRNA-disease associations |
| 10:45 | Salvatore Micciche' |Oral Presentation| Nested partitions from hierarchical clustering statistical validation |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
Structural Bioinformatics and mulecular dynamic Simulations chair(s) Facchiano, Chiappori |
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| 11:45 | Lorenzo Di Rienzo |Oral Presentation| A moments-based analysis of shape and electrostatics in molecular recognition: the case of antibodies. |
| 12:00 | Qingzhen Hou |Oral Presentation| SOLart: a structure-based method to predict protein solubility and aggregation |
| 12:15 | Federica Chiappori |Oral Presentation| CXCL10-CXCR3 complex formation, different isoforms result in different binding modes |
| 12:30 | Deborah Giordano |Oral Presentation| Molecular dynamics analysis of MTGase and KalbTGase enzymes |
| 12:45 | Romina Oliva |Oral Presentation| How we Achieved the First Position in the Top-1 and Top-10 Rankings of the CASP13-CAPRI46 Scoring Experiment |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
