Day 2: NBIC Conference

Day 2 of the NBIC Conference was open for everyone interested.

Presentations will soon be made available online.

Programme, March 30


08:30 - 09:00	Registration with coffee & tea

09:00 - 09:15	Opening by Prof. dr. Jaap Heringa (Chair day 2)

09:15 - 10:00	Keynote speaker: Yair Field, Segal Lab of
	Computational Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel
	Title: Chromatin structure and function encoded through
	nucleosome positioning signals

10:00 - 10:30	Coffee & tea & application showcase

10:30 - 12:00	3 Keynote speakers: scientific highlights NBIC
	10:30 - 11:00 Keynote speaker: Barend Mons, Leiden University Medical
	Center/ Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre
	*Title: In Silico discovery: dream or mainstream?*
	11:00 - 11:30 Keynote speaker: Jaap Heringa, VU University Amsterdam/
	Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre
	*Title: Towards a networked understanding of cellular function: when*
	*is a model of genes, products and connections between them good*
	*enough?*
	11:30 - 12:00 Keynote speaker: Harold Verstegen, Manager Bioinformatics
	at Keygene
	*Title: True integration with bioinformatics leads to leads.*

12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
	- Meet & Greet the keynote speakers (PhD students only)
	- Application showcase
	- Job Market
	- NBIC information stand

13:00 - 14:00	Parallel meetings:
	- Bioinformatics in Industry (on invitation)
	- Presentation: Results BioAssist hackathon

14:00 - 14:45	Keynote speaker: Paul Kersey, Ensembl Genomes Team, EMBL-EBI,
	United Kingdom
	Title: Towards high-throughput understanding

14:45 - 15:10	Coffee & tea & application showcase

15:10 - 15:40	Final application showcase

15:40 - 16:10	Presentation of the NBIC Young Bioinformatician Award,
	followed by a scientific lecture by the winner: Dr. Lude Franke

16:10 - 16:15	Announcement of the Application Showcase winner

16:15 - 17:00	Keynote speaker: Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University,
	National Center for Biomedical Ontology, US
	Title: The National Center for Biomedical Ontology: Bringing
	Structure to Biomedical Data

17:00	Closing Conference