| 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):
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Tugce Bilgin Sonay, UZH: Tandem repeats in promoters
confer gene expression divergence
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Paul Gagniuc, UPB - Romania: A pattern approach for
promoter research
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Jake Yeung, EPFL: Tissue‐wide analysis reveals
distinct roles of promoters underlying rhythmic gene
expression
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Mahmoud Ibrahim, MDC-Berlin - Germany: Promoter
Dynamics during Directed Differentiation of Motor Neurons
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Dominik Hartl, FMI: Dissecting sequence determinants
of CpG island promoter activity
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Sarah Natalia Mapelli, IOR: Promoter-proximal
transcripts: a genome-wide prediction and functional
validation study
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Maroun Bou Sleiman, EPFL: The alternative splicing
landscape of the Drosophila gut upon enteric
infection
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|
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 |
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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
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|
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)
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|
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 |
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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 |
