INBIOMEDvision TRAINING 2013

 

TRANSLATIONAL AND INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS Postgraduate course
22-26th of April 2013, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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COURSE CHARACTERISTICS

This course is targeted to post graduate students who wish to gain insight on the different integrative and translational research approaches in the field of Bioinformatics.
Objectives:

• To gain knowledge about the current challenges and opportunities in the emerging field of translational bioinformatics.
• To meet experts in the field of integrative and translational bioinformatics.

Main topics covered:

• (DAY1) Clinical application of genomic information
• (DAY2) Electronic Health Records in integrative research
• (DAY3) Automatic extraction and integration of information from scientific publications and other sources
• (DAY4) Ontologies and standards for biomedical data integration
• (DAY5) Systems biology and network analysis for translational medicine

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

DAY 1: 22nd April
09:00 – 09:45	Welcome and Introduction to translational and integrative bioinformatics	Prof Ferran Sanz (UPF-Grib) Prof Modesto Orozco (BSC)
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF GENOMIC INFORMATION
Session 1:
09:45 – 11:30	Monitoring RNA in health and disease	Prof Roderic Guigó
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee break
11:45 – 13:30	From clinical data to gene signatures in clinical-decision making in oncology: a clinical perspective	Prof Joan Albanell
13:30 – 15:00	Lunch break
Session 2:
15:00 – 16:45	Cancer Genomics	Dr Nuria López-Bigas

DAY 2: 23rd April
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS IN INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH
Session 1:
09:30 – 11:15	From Medical Records to a Patient-Centric Electronic Health Record	Dr Amnon Shabo
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:15	On Scylla and Charybdis when re-using medical data from EHRs	Prof Johan van der Lei
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
Session 2:
15:00 – 16:45	How the EHR can Facilitate Translational and Integrative Medicine?	Dr Amnon Shabo

DAY 3: 24th April
AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION AND INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION FROM SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SOURCES
Session 1:
09:00 – 11:15	Biomedical text mining for translational research	Prof Martin Hofmann-Apitius
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:15	Text mining in biomedicine. Possibilities and limitations	Prof Alfonso Valencia
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
Session 2:
15:00 – 16:45	Knowledge is like Love… it multiplies when shared	Prf Barend Mons

DAY 4: 25th April
ONTOLOGIES AND STANDARDS FOR BIOMEDICAL DATA INTEGRATION
Session 1:
09:00 – 10:00	Why interoperability and use of coded terminologies and standards in Biomedicine and Health Care are so important?	Dr Miguel Ángel Mayer
10:00 – 11:30	Clinical Genomics Standards	Dr Amnon Shabo
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee break
11:45 – 13:15	Data management in large biomedical projects	Prof Josep Lluis Gelpí
13:15 – 15:00	Lunch break
Session 2:
15:00 – 16:45	Electronic Health Records	Prof SØren Brunak

DAY 5: 26th April
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Session 1:
09:30 – 11:15	Systems biology study of neonatal sepsis: new translational opportunities	Prof Peter Ghazal
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:15	Application of protein-protein interaction networks in Biomedicine	Prof Baldo Oliva
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch break
Session 2:
14:30 – 15:45	Exploring the Geographic Distribution of Disease Variants. Personalized or Continentalized medicine?	Prof Arcadi Navarro
15:45 – 17:00	DisGeNET: a framework for the study of diseases and adverse drug reactions	Dr Laura I. Furlong

Duration:

Total of 30 hours over 5 working days. Morning sessions from 9am – 1pm, and afternoon sessions from 3pm – 5pm.

Requirements:

Graduate students with background on: Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Mathematics, Physics, Biomedical Engineering or related areas.

Confirmed Lecturers:

• Prof. Joan Albanell - Cancer Research Program, IMIM-Hospital del Mar and Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
• Prof. Søren Brunak - Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Dr. Laura I. Furlong - Integrative Biomedical Informatics, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Spain
• Prof. Josep Lluis Gelpí - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Prof. Peter Ghazal - Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Prof. Roderic Guigó - Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain
• Prof. Martin Hofmann-Apitius - Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Germany
• Dr. Nuria Lopez-Bigas - Biomedical Genomics Group, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
• Dr. Miguel Ángel Mayer - Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University and Medical Association of Barcelona, Spain
• Prof. Barend Mons - Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
• Prof. Arcadi Navarro - Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Pompeu Fabra University and Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Spain
• Prof. Baldo Oliva - Structural Bioinformatics, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
• Prof. Ferran Sanz - Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
• Prof. Amnon Shabo - Healthcare and Life Sciences Standards Program, IBM, Israel
• Prof. Alfonso Valencia - Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain
• Prof. Johan Van der Lei - Department of Medical Informatics at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

REGISTRATION AND GRANTS

The Registration fee is 300€. It includes the lectures, coffee breaks and lunches during the course.

Two types of Grants are available, candidates can apply to one or both grants:
1) European Mobility Grant

The European Mobility Grants can be given to applicants who reside in Europe and whose travel to the training require air/train travel and/or who need accommodation in Barcelona during the course week.

INBIOMEDvision will cover the costs of inter-European travel and lodging in Barcelona up to total of 500€ per applicant. Expenses will be covered only for travel and accommodation during the course period from the 22nd until the 26th of April. The original tickets/invoices are required for the reimbursement of the expenses.

The in-city travel in Barcelona is not covered by the Mobility Grant.
2) Registration fee Grant

The Registration fee Grant covers the registration only. Travel and accommodation costs are not covered by the organiser.

APPLICATION PROCESS AND SCHEDULE

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM
Applications should be sent to info@inbiomedvision.eu by the 22nd of March 2013.
You will receive a confirmation email when we have received your application.

Application period ends	22nd of March 2013
Successful applicants will be informed about acceptance to the course	By the 29th of March 2013
Successful Grant applicants will be informed	By the 29th of March 2013
Deadline for Fee payments and confirmation of participation to the course	By the 5th of April

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND ORGANISERS

Chair: Dr. Laura I. Furlong – Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM)
Prof. Ferran Sanz – Pompeu Fabra University
Dr. Nuria Lopez-Bigas – Pompeu Fabra University

The course is organised by INBIOMEDvision in collaboration with Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spanish Technological Platform for Innovative Medicines (PTEMI), and The Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics (INB).

For more information, please contact us at info@inbiomedvision.eu