Program

Sunday, June 14

Evening Reception

Monday, June 15

9:00-9:15       Can Alkan, Fabio Vandin, and Cenk Şahinalp
                      Opening remarks

9:15-10:00     Pierre Peterlongo
                      de Bruijn graph: what can be learnt from it? Can we improve it?

10:00-10:45   Roye Rozov
                      Bloom filter methods in compression and de novo assembly

10:45-11:30   Coffee

11:30-12:15   Ewa Szczurek
                      The model of metastasis initiation and its utility in the clinic

12:15-14:15   LUNCH

14:15-15:00   Yuzhen Ye
                      Graph-centric algorithms for metagenomics 

15:00-15:30   Coffee

15:30-16:15   Haixu Tang
                      Secure computing on human genomic data

16:15-17:00   Eran Halperin
                      TBA

17:00-17:45   Gunnar Klau
                     The jelly bean mining problem in one and two jars

Tuesday, June 16

9:00-9:45       Alex Schönhuth
                      Repeat- and Error-Aware Comparison of Deletions

9:45-10:30     Valentina Boeva
                      Detection of structural variants and copy number alterations in cancer sequencing data

10:30-11:15   Coffee

11:15-12:00   Leonid Chindelevitch
                      Can integrating whole genomes with other data improve our understanding of infection spread?

12:00-14:00   LUNCH

14:00-14:45   Michal Ziv-Ukelson
                      Finding Structured Patterns in Infection Networks

14:45-15:15   Coffee

15:15-16:00   Rolf Backofen
                      High-Throuphput Protein-RNA Interactions Data: Algorithmic Challenges or Big Data Problem?

16:00-16:45   Alberto Policriti
                      Alignment and Hashing

16:45-17:30   Mika Amit
                     Period Recovery over the Hamming and Edit Distance

Wednesday, June 17

9:00-9:45      Fabio Vandin
                      TBA

9:45-10:30    Teresa Przytycka
                      TBA

10:30-11:15   Coffee

11:00-11:45  Bartek Wilczynski
                      SNPs, Transcription Factor binding and cancer

11:45-12:05 Shatlyk Ashyralyyev
                      A hypergraph-based model for hybrid de novo assembly

12:05-12:25  Jasmijn Baaijens
                      De novo assembly of viral quasispecies

12:30-14:30   LUNCH

14:30-           EXCURSION


Student Talks:

  • Shatlyk Ashyralyyev (Can Alkan): A hypergraph-based model for hybrid de novo assembly
  • Mika Amit (Gadi Landau): Period Recovery over the Hamming and Edit Distance
  • Jasmijn Baaijens (Alex Schönhuth): De novo assembly of viral quasispecies