Programme Outline

 

Sunday September 5th

9:00
Registration (Sala Della Muta, Piazza Cavour)
     
14:00

Welcome

Prof. Fulvio Esposito
(Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology)

 

Bioinformatics at Unicam
Prof. Gloria Cristalli
(Coordinator of the Course in Bioinformatics)

Opening Lecture

Chair: Flavio Corradini
 
14:15 - 15:00
Modelling Biological Network [Presentation, 36Kb]
Anna Ingolfsdottir
(University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, BRICS, Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University)

15:00 - 16:30 Session 1: Computational Biology I

Chair: Roberto Marangoni
 
Maximum Likelihood and Statistical Model Selection Methods Applied to Protein Interaction Network Data
    Michael P.H. Stumpf, Piers J. Ingram
(Imperial College London, UK)

 
A MultiAgent System for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction [Presentation, 424Kb]
    Giuliano Armano, Gianmaria Mancosu, Alessandro Orro, (Università di Cagliari, Italy)
 
Using Secondary Structure Information to Perform Multiple Alignment [Presentation, 244Kb]
    Giuliano Armano, Alessandro Orro (Università di Cagliari), Luciano Milanesi (ITB-CNR, Milano Italy)
 
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

 

 

17:00 - 18:15

Session 2: Computational Biology II

Chair:
Pablo Gonzalez
 

Computer-Aided DNA Base Calling from Forward and Reverse Electropherograms [Presentation, 528Kb]
Valerio Freschi, Alessandro Bogliolo (Università di Urbino, Italy)
 
Random Subspace Ensembles for the Bio-molecular Diagnosis of Tumors [Presentation, 124Kb]
Alberto Bertoni, Raffaella Folgieri and Giorgio Valentini (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
 
Short communication:
A Quest for EDC-related Genes in the Context of Bio-medical Literature [Presentation, 176Kb]
Massimo Ubaldi, Laura Soverchia, Roberto Ciccocioppo, Gilberto Mosconi and Alberta Maria Polzonetti (Università di Camerino, Italy)
 
20:00           Welcome wine party


Monday September 6th

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Lecture
chair: Roberto Ciccocioppo
 

Microarrays Methods and Applications [Presentation, 5,292Kb]

Gary Hardiman, (Unversity of California, USA)
 

10:00 - 11:00   Session 3: Computational Biology III
chair: Michael P.H. Stumpf
Satellite Event:
Workshop on theory and practice on Gene-Array technology

BDD-Based Algorithms in Genetic Linkage Analysis

Anna Ingolfsdottir,(University of Iceland,  BRICS, Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University)
Daniel Gudbjartsson, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, (DeCode Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland)

Experimental design for microarray studies.

Wolfgang Sommer, (Neurotec, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, M 57, S-14186 Stockholm, Sweden)

Towards Motif Detection in Networks: Frequency Concepts and Flexible Search [Presentation, 888Kb]

Falk Schreiber, Henning Schwöbbermeyer (Bioinformatics Center Gatersleben-Halle, Germany)

Sample preparation, amplification and labeling for array analysis

Franco Martinez, (Celbio S.p.A,  Milan, Italy)

 
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30

Poster Session: For the complete click here
                            or see below

Satellite Event:
Workshop on theory and practice on Gene-Array technology

Forget limitations of the past: a complete solution for RNA amplification

Annamaria Guiducci,  (MWG Biotech, Srl Florence , Italy)

Ready...Set...Scan! What's inside a microarray scanner?

Nicola Bortoletto,  (Bio-Rad Laboratories srl Segrate MI, Italy)

Basic principles in data analysis and visualization

Pasquale De Luca, (SZN-BioGeM, Naples, Italy)

THE MWG oligo-array concept: Progression is a matter of trust

Lucilla Biagini (MWG Biotech Srl, Florence, Italy)

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Panel:

Models and Metaphors from Biology to Computer Science and Bioinformatics

Expected participants:
as biologists,

Alfredo Colosimo
 (Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Italy)
Giorgio Valle "Bioinformatics applied to the analysis of genomes ",  (Università di Padova, Italy)
Cristina Miceli and Maurizio Massi [Presentation, 48Kb]
 (Università di Camerino, Italy)

as computer scientists
Luca Cardelli
 (Microsoft Reseach, UK)
Pierpaolo Degano
 (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Anna Inglfsdottir

 (University of Iceland, Reykjavik Iceland,
 BRICS, Dept. of Computer Science,
 Aalborg University)
Paola Quaglia
 (Università di Trento, Italy)

moderated by

Andrea Omicini and Emanuela Merelli
 

Satellite Event:
Workshop on theory and practice on Gene-Array technology
 

Guided discussion on the  major topics emerged in the morning session

Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 19:30 Social Event:

Grotte di Frasassi or
Guided Tour of Camerino and visit to the "Vitalini Castle"

Satellite Event:
Workshop on theory and practice on Gene-Array technology

Guided discussion on the  major topics emerged in the morning session

20:00

Social Dinner (at Vitalini Castle)  



Tuesday September 7th

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Lecture

Chair: Andrea Omicini
 
Languages and Notations for Systems Biology [Presentation, 2,868Kb]
 Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
 
10:00- 11:00 Session 4: Systems Biology

Chair: Piepaolo Degano
 
Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation of Stem Cell Behaviour [Presentation, 320Kb]
Mark d'Inverno and Jane Prophet (University of Westmister, UK)
 
 
Modeling Kohn Interaction Maps with Beta Binders: an Example
Federica Ciocchetta, Corrado Priami, Paola Quaglia (Università di Trento, Italy)

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00

Modeling Gene Expression [Presentation, 304Kb]
 Jasmin Šarić, Isabel Rojas, Esther Ratsch, Renate Kania, Ulrike Wittig (EML Research gGmbH, Germany)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR, Italy)

 
12:00 - 13:00   Session 5: Bioinformatics Engineering

Chair: Anna Ingolfsdottir
 
    Specifying In Silico Experiments as Coordinations of Coarse-Grained Processes [Presentation, 76Kb]
Ane Tröger and Alvaro A. A. Fernandes (University of Manchester, UK)
    Short Communications:
    Bioinformatics Engineering: A Process Methodology                                                             Paola Inverardi, Daniele Pavone, Pietro Recchilongo, Alessandra Tessitore (Università di L'Aquila, Italy)
 
    An Agent-oriented Conceptual Framework for Biological Systems [Presentation, 144Kb]
Nicola Cannata (Università di Padova), Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli (Università di Camerino), Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci (Università di Bologna, Italy)
13:00 - 13:15 Closing Remarks and Announcement of NETTAB 2005 [Presentation, 88Kb]


 

                                                           POSTERS  
    P1  Dave Angulo (DePaul University) Alex Schilling, Kevin Drew, Tim Freeman (University of Chicago)
 

 Mass Spectra Analysis on the Illinois BioGrid

 
    P2

 Saverio Alberti, Marco Trerotola (Università di Chieti, Italy) and Andrew Emerson (CINECA, Italy)

 On the detection of spliced chimeric mRNAs in sequence databanks  
    P3

 Anna Marabotti and Angelo M. Facchiano (ISA-CNR, Italy)

 Comparative modelling of human galactose-1-phosphate  

 uridylyltransferase and of its galactosemia-related mutant Q188R: A molecular explanation of the structural effects of the mutation

 
P4

 Susan Costantini,   

 Giovanni Colonna and

 Angelo M. Facchiano (Seconda Univerità di Napoli, Italy)

 Prediction of the secondary structure of proteins: The amino acid propensities in proteins belonging to different secondary structural classes

    P5

 Jason S. Iacovoni (INSERM, F), Allouche (INRIA, France), and Herve Prats (INSERM, France)

 

 GeneHuggers Divide and Conquer modules: parallelized sequence database mining of complex genomes

 
    P6  Acquadro F., Mello Grand M, Segir R, Vizzini L, Scatolini M and Chiorino G. (Bioinformatics Pharmacogenomics Laboratory, Italy)
 

 Gene Expression Profiling on a cohort of 50 early stage prostate cancer patients

 
    P7

 Arlinde Christina, Karolinska

 Ploner, A. and Sommer W. (Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

 Effect of a priori filtering on microarray derived candidate gene lists with p-values adjusted for false discovery rate.

 
    P8

 Fusetti L., Maran V., Parma P. I (LEA, Istituto, Italy ), Damin F., Chiari M. (CNR Milano), Greppi G.F. (Università di Milano, Italy)

 Bovine Gene Expression Profiling In Lipid Metabolism By Microarray Analysis  
    P9

 Antonietta La Terza (Università di Camerino), Roberto Marangoni,

Nadia Pisanti (Università di Pisa, Italy), Sabrina Barchetta, Cristina Miceli (Università di Camerino, Italy)

 Bioinformatic tools to identify structured motifs in the upstream regions of stress-response-involved genes in Tetrahymena thermophila

 
P10

 Mario Compiani (Università di Camerino, Italy), Emidio Capriotti, Rita Casadio (Università di Bologna, Italy)

 Computation of the Folding Rates of wild type and mutant Proteins
    P11

 Ezio Bartocci, Flavio Corradini,

 Emanuela Merelli (Università di Camerino, I)

 An overview of  Service Discovery for biological distributed applications  
    P12

 Flavio Corradini, Chiara Ercoli,

 Emanuela Merelli, Barbara Re (Università di Camerino, Italy)

 A Matchmaker for BioMoby  
    P13

 Mauro Angeletti, Ezio Bartocci,

 Arianna Baldoncini, Rosario Culmone (Università di Camerino, Italy)

 The interactome jigsaw puzzle: putting together the complete picture of protein-protein interactions using the Bioagent platform

 
    P14

 Domenico Marra, Paolo Romano (IST, Italy)

 Mutation data interoperability: SRS implementation of the TP53 IARC mutation database providing XML output

 
    P15

 Shahlaa Kasim (IT Department, Al-Zahra College for Women, Oman)

 On Searching Data in Peer-to-Peer Network

 
    P16

 Bill Andreopoulos (York University, Toronto, Canada)

 Knowledge-based clustering of numerical data sets incorporating confidence values: applications to yeast genomic data sets

 
    P17

 Chen-Tsun Chuang,

 Cheng-Chia Yang and

 Mei-Fen Huang (China Medical University, Taiwan)

 Repetitive sequence analysis of human chromosome X

 
    P18

 Francesco Gianfelici (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

 A Self-Organizing P2P Network Based on Multi-Layer Structure

 
    P19

 Roberto Garello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Francesco Mininni (SAISME, Torino), Franco Chiaraluce, and Ennio Gambi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

 Sequence analysis based on genomic signal processing

 
    P20

 Wolfgang Sommer, Christina Arlinde (Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Massimo Ubaldi (Università di Camerino, Italy)

 Experimental design for microarray studies