| Wed Sep 28 |
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18:00 - 19:00 |
Registration |
| Thu Sep 29 |
|
08:30 - 09:30 |
Registration |
|
09:30 - 09:35 |
Welcome - Introduction |
|
09:35 - 11:20 |
Session 1:
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Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Promoter prediction evolution
through the decades
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Sridhar Hannenhalli (University of Maryland,
USA)
Remote control of gene expression
(Abstract)
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Denis Thieffry (Ecole Normale Supérieure,
France)
Qualitative dynamical modelling
of promoter epigenetic regulation
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11:20 - 11:40 |
Coffee break + posters |
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11:40 - 12:50 |
Session 2:
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Gary Stormo (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)
Modelling the Specificity of
Transcription Factors
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Bart Deplancke (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
De novo, quantitative DNA binding
analysis of single and dimeric transcription factors using
SMiLE-seq
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12:50 - 14:00 |
Lunch + posters |
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14:00 - 15:30 |
Selected short talks by young scientists
(Abstracts):
- Tugce Bilgin Sonay, UZH: Tandem repeats in promoters
confer gene expression divergence
- Paul Gagniuc, UPB - Romania: A pattern approach
for promoter research
- Jake Yeung, EPFL: Tissue‐wide analysis reveals distinct
roles of promoters underlying rhythmic gene expression
- Mahmoud Ibrahim, MDC-Berlin - Germany: Promoter
Dynamics during Directed Differentiation of Motor
Neurons
- Dominik Hartl, FMI: Dissecting sequence determinants
of CpG island promoter activity
- Sarah Natalia Mapelli, IOR: Promoter-proximal
transcripts: a genome-wide prediction and functional
validation study
- Maroun Bou Sleiman, EPFL: The alternative
splicing landscape of the Drosophila gut upon enteric
infection
|
|
15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee break + posters |
|
15:50 - 17:30 |
EPD session:
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Philipp Bucher (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
The Eukaryotic Promoter Database
EPD: Why I created it and how I have been using
it
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René Dreos (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
EPD today: a resource to study
promoter motifs and chromatin features from yeast to
human
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Giovanna Ambrosini (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
ChIP-Seq and SSA: web-based tools
for the analysis of gene regulatory elements
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|
17:45 - 19:00 |
Apéro |
|
19:00 - 22:00 |
Banquet |
| Fri Sep 30 |
|
08:30 - 10:15 |
Session 4:
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Alexander Kel (geneXplain, Wolfenbuettel,
Germany)
TRANSFAC and beyond.
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Martin Vingron (Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Co-localization networks on
promoters
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Uwe Ohler (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany)
Pervasive transcription and the
diversity of eukaroytic promoters
|
|
10:15 - 11:35 |
Coffee break + posters |
|
10:35 - 12:20 |
Session 5:
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Boris Lenhard (Imperial College London, UK)
Promoter classes and promoter
codes: looking beyond motifs
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Tammy Juven-Gershon (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
The Core Promoter: At the Heart of
Gene Expression
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Roberto Mantovani (University of Milan, Italy)
The CCAAT/NF-Y duo: partnerships
in promoters and beyond
(Abstract)
|
|
12:20 - 13:30 |
Lunch + posters |
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13:30 - 14:40 |
Session 6:
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Erik van Nimwegen (University of Basel, Switzerland)
The role of expression noise in
the evolution of gene regulation: lessons from evolved
synthetic promoters
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Martin Kuiper (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
Taking Care of Transcription
Factors - Building a Knowledge Commons for Gene
Regulatory Network Analysis
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14:40 - 15:00 |
Coffee break + posters |
|
15:00 - 16:10 |
Session 7:
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Valentina Boeva
Discovery of core regulatory
circuitries in neuroblastoma and identification of
distinct neuroblastoma identity types (Abstract)
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Nicolas Mermod (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bioinformatics modeling and
experimental characterization of epigenetic
regulatory elements
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16:10 - 16:15 |
Concluding remarks |
