Bioinformatics and genomics have proven their ability to change the paradigm in biomedical research and discovery of innovative diagnostics and medicine. With the launch of the Armenian Genome Project, these multidisciplinary scientific fields will become the main drivers of the development of basic and applied biomedical research and establishment of precision medicine in Armenia.
This is the second workshop, organized as part of the joint projects “PathwayMaps” and “oBIG: Partner Initiative in Bioinformatics, Systems Medicine and Health” between the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics of Leipzig University and the Bioinformatics Group of Molecular Biology NAS RA. The workshop is partially funded by the German Ministry for Education and Science and RA Committee of Sciences grant to the Russian-Armenian University.
Main topics:
- Molecular mechanisms of diseases: genetics, epigenetics and transcriptomics
- Personalized diagnostics
- Bioinformatics for next-generation analytics
- Single cell bioinformatics
- Population and ancestry human genetics
- Omics and phenotype data mining
- Machine learning, big data handling and visualization
- Biological text mining
- Quantum computing for bioinformatics
Who can attend the workshop:
Students and researchers with a background in Biology, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine and/or Mathematics, Statistics and Computing who are interested in the field are welcome to attend (please find the registration link below).
Speakers
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| Arsen Arakelyan IMB NAS Armenia |
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| Hans Binder Leipzig University Germany |
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| Henry Loeffler-Wirth Leipzig University Germany |
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| Hrant Khachatryan YerevaNN Armenia |
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| Jonathan Schug University of Pennsylvania USA |
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| Kristina Simonyan Harvard Medical School USA |
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| Levon Yepiskoposyan IMB NAS Armenia |
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| Lilit Nersisyan IMB NAS Armenia |
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| Lydia Hopp Leipzig University Germany |
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| Maria Nikoghosyan IMB NAS Armenia |
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| Maria Schmidt Leipzig University Germany |
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| Siras Hakobyan IMB NAS Armenia |
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| Vicent Pelechano Karolinska Institutet Sweden |
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| Alina Frolova IMBG NASU Ukraine |
Program
Day 1: July 3
09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Welcome address
09:00-09:30 Arsen Arakelyan, Hans Binder
09:30-10:00 Omics bioinformatics for health: our status and our perspectives
09:00-09:30 Hans Binder
10:00-10:30 Post-oposSOM tools: next level transcriptome analytics
09:00-09:30 Henry Loeffler-Wirth
10:30-11:00 Transcriptome and epigenome of the developmental and ageing brain
09:00-09:30 Lydia Hopp
11:00-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Molecular anthropology in the post-genomic era
09:00-09:30 Levon Yepiskoposyan
12:30-13:00 Prediction of complex disease development in different populations
09:00-09:30 Maria Nikoghosyan
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Dissecting gene expression with genomics: from transcriptional complexity to ribosome dynamics
09:00-09:30Vicent Pelechano
Day 2: July 4
09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Welcome address
09:00-09:30 Arsen Arakelyan
09:30-10:00 Bioinformatics for the Armenian Genome Project: opportunities and challenges
09:00-09:30 Arsen Arakelyan
10:00-10:30 Functional Isoform and pathway level analysis of melanoma transcriptome
09:00-09:30 Siras Hakobyan
10:30-11:00 Telomere length dynamics and transcriptional regulation in Lynch syndrome and sporadic colorectal carcinoma
09:00-09:30Lilit Nersisyan
11:00-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Extraction of biomolecular interactions from scientific publications
09:00-09:30 Hrant Khachatryan
12:30-13:00 A platform comparison of single-cell technologies for human islet samples
09:00-09:30Jonathan Schug
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Dissecting the worm by single-cell transcriptome bioinformatics
09:00-09:30 Maria Schmidt
14:30-15:00 Single-cell map of the human placenta
09:00-09:30Alina Frolova
15:00-15:10 Closing remarks
Registration
Register before June 24th and attend the talks for free!
Please, note that we have limited spots for 40 participants, and registration will be confirmed on a first come-first served basis.
Note: the registration is now closed.
Venue
Attention! The venue has changed.
The talks will be held in Ani Plaza Hotel, Nairi hall at Sayat-Nova Ave. 19, Yerevan, Armenia.
Organizers
Organizing committee
Arsen Arakelyan, IMB NAS RA
Hans Binder, IZBI
Henry Loeffler-Wirth, IZBI
Roksana Zakharyan, IMB NAS RA, Russian-Armenian University
Maria Nikoghosyan, IMB NAS RA
Lilit Nersisyan, IMB NAS RA
Siras Hakobyan, IMB NAS RA
Contacts
In case of questions, please contact us at big@mb.sci.am or call (+374) 95 899 149.