We are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Presentation and Best Poster Awards:
Best Presentation Award
The prizes for the best student presentation were awarded to:
- First Place: Amit Deshwar
- Second Place: Sebastian Schultheiss
- Third Place: Orion Buske
Previous Winners
- 2010 - Geoff MacIntyre
- 2009 - Nils Gehlenborg
- 2008 - Surya Saha
- 2007 - Adam Margolin
- 2006 - Pavol Hanus
Best Poster Award
Prizes for the Outstanding student posters were given to:
- First Place: Benjamin Kwan
- Second Place: Emre Guney
- Third Place: Mrinal Mishra
Previous Winners
- 2010 - Wouter Meuleman and Mark McDowell (Runner-Up)
- 2009 - Jose Caldas
- 2009 - Inken Wohlers and Nikolay Samusik (Runner-Up)
- 2008 - Lixia Yao
- 2008 - Sebastian Pechmann and Bridget Chukualim (Runner-Up)
- 2007 - Elisabeth Georgii
- 2007 - Adrien Faure (Runner-Up)
- 2006 - Feng Chen
Congratulations to the award winners and many thanks to our sponsor Oxford Journals for making these awards possible.
2011 Accepted Oral Presentations
Sequence Analysis
- Bacteriophage Evolution Drives Pseudomonas Geruginosa PAO1 Biofilm Diversification
Kerensa McElroy, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Sydney, AU - Efficient Branch-and-Bound Techniques for Two-Locus Association Mapping
Karin Klotzbuecher, Max Planck Institutes Tu¨bingen, Tu¨bingen, DE - Genome-Wide Association Study of TB in the South African Colored Population: Comprehensive Gene and Pathway-Based Association Study
Emile R. Chimusa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, ZA - Variant detection and the Autism Sequencing Project
Orion Buske, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
Bioinformatics Tools
- Resolving Atomic Interaction Networks to Understand GPCR Conformational Switching
AJ Venkatakrishnan, University of Cambridge/MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, IN - Oqtans: A Galaxy-Integrated Workflow for Quantitative Transcriptome Analysis from NGS Data
Sebastian Schultheiss, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tuebingen, DE - Replication of Epistatic DNA Loci in Two Case-Control GWAS studies Using OPE Algorithm
Benjamin Goudey, University of Melbourne and NICTA, Melbourne, AU - An Integrative Bioinformatics Predictor of Protein Sub-Cellular Localization in Malaria
Ben Woodcroft, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology, Melbourne, AU
Transcriptomics, Data Management and Phylogeny
- Profiling Transcription Initiation in Human Aged Brian Using Deep-CAGE
Margherita Francescatto, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center and University of Porto, Amsterdam, NL - The Development of an Open-Access Database for Human Transcriptional Regulation interactions
Luiz Bovolenta, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Unesp -Univ Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, BR - Computational Purification of Tumor Gene Expression Data
Amit Deshwar, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA - Markov Models to Delineate Evolutionary and Codon Usage Patterns among Malpighiales
Mehedi Hassan, University of Glamorgan, Pnotypridd, UK
Accepted Poster Presentations
- Mapping of Genome-Wide Expression Data in Biologically Coherent Ordered List of Genes Integrated Networks
Marcio Acencio, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Botucatu, BR - Predicting Protein Associations with Long Noncoding RNAs
Federico Agostini, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES - Minimum Curvilinearity to Address High-Throughput Protein-Protein Interaction Experiments
Gregorio Alanis-Lobato, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, SA - Explanation of Helicobacter Pylori Virulence and Adaptation Based on Proteogenomic Analysis
Dmitry Alexeev, Russian Institute Of Physico-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, RU - A Unified View on Regulatory Genomics
Sonja Althammer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES - In Silico Phenotype Prediction of Ionizing-Radiation-Resistant Bacteria by Extraction of Discriminative Motifs
Sabeur Aridhi, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont Ferrand, FR - Curation and Analysis of Polyketide Metabolism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Anshu Bhardwaj, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN - Structural Comparison of Erwinase and E. Coli L-Asparaginase to Facilitate Rational Reengineering of a Cancer Drug
Mainá Bitar, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE - Maximizing the Number of Aligned Reads from RNA-Seq Data
Thomas Bonfert, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, DE - Discovery of Novel Causes of Oncogenic Pathway Activation with REVEALER
Olga Botvinnik, Broad Institute, Cambridge, US - Distribution and Influence of Cation-pi Interactions between Native and Mutant Prions
George Priya Doss C, VIT University, Vellore, IN - Using Large-Scale Phylogenomics to Assess the Evolutionary Position of Elusive Taxa: the Case of the Microsporidian Pathogens
Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES - Finding Consistent Explanations for Observations from Genome-Wide Mutant Assays
Deborah Chasman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, US - Nonparametric Estimation of an Unknown Probability Distribution Using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Approaches: Application to CNV Analysis
Alona Chubatiuk, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US - Comparative proteomic Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Viral and Bacterial Meningitis
Ana Cordeiro, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, BR - Combinatorial Approach to Discovering Biomarkers for Disorders of the Eye
Jigisha Darbha, University of Geneva, Geneva, CH - A Semantic Web Infrastructure for Bioinformatics of Staphylococcus Aureus
Cândida Delgado, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, PT - A Comparative Study of HMM Classifier on Protein Sequence Classification
Wajdi Dhifli, LIMOS - Blaise Pascal University, Aubière, FR - A Generalized Linear Model for Large-Scale Metalloproteins Identification in Bacterial Proteomes
Johan Estellon, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Grenoble, FR - Finding Active Subnetworks in Diseases by Using Integrated Biological Networks
Raj Gaire, University of Melbourne, Carlton, AU - mTIM: margin-based Transcript Identification from RNA-Seq
Nico Goernitz, Technical University Berlin & MPI Tuebingen, Berlin, DE - Predict Subcellular Localization for Proteins in All Kingdoms
Tatyana Goldberg, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE - Analysis of Trypanosoma Cruzi Gene Expression in Response to Ionizing Radiation
Priscila Grynberg, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, BR - Toward PWAS: Discovering Pathways Associated with Human Disorders
Emre Guney, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, ES - Cholesterol--Responsive Gene Network Reconstruction from Hypercholesterolemic Mice Transcriptome Data
Gustavo Hime, Freiburg Institute For Advanced Studies, Freiburg, DE - Web-based Interactive Protein Contact Maps with PConPy2
Hui Kian Ho, University of Melbourne, Carlton, AU - Multi-Access Module for the Identification of Trees of Gujarat State
Minal Jani, Sardar Patel University, Anand, IN - The Relevance of HIV-1 Pol, Gag and Vif T-cell Epitopes Based Vaccine Across Kenyan Population HLA Class 1 Diversity
Muriira Karau, Kenya Bureau of Standards, Nairobi, KE - Computational Analysis of DNA Replicases in Double-Stranded DNA Viruses: Relationship with the Genome Size
Darius Kazlauskas, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LT - The MAP Interactome in Drosophila: an Integrative Systems Biology Quest for New Mitotic Proteins
Faisal Khan, University of Oxford, Exeter, UK - System-Level Analysis of Cell Line Data for Targeted Drug Discovery
Nayoung Kim, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, KR - Spectral Classification of Short Numerical Exon and Intron Sequences
Benjamin Kwan, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CA - A Knowledge Federation Strategy for Integrating Genotype-to-Phenotype Data
Pedro Lopes, University of Aveiro - Computational Analysis of Genetic Network Related to Pancreatic Cancer in Human
Mrinal Mishra, VIT University, Vellore, IN - Identification of Functionally Important Residues Rowards Substrate Stabilization in Family 11 Microbial Xylanases
Karthik Mvk, Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra, Hyderabad, IN - Cross Genome Analysis of Histone Orthologs and Chromosomal Networks in Nucleosomes Across Species
Preetam Nayak, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, IN - Integrated Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics approaches in Identification of Putative Reservoirs/Hosts of Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVF) in Kenya
David Ouma, icipe-African Isect Science for Food and Health, Nairobi, KE - Mining Gene Ontology Data with AGENDA
Guvanch Ovezmyradov, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, DE - Cryptosporidium Species, Gastroenteric Pathogens and CD4 Counts in North Central Nigeria
Victoria Pam, National Veterinary Research Institute,Vom,Plateau State,Nigeria, Jos, NG - A Non-Biased Framework for the Annotation and Classification of the Non-miRNA Small RNA Transcriptome
Lorena Pantano, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain - Comparative Genome-Wide Analysis of transcription Initiation and Promoter Architecture in Eukaryotes
R. Taylor Raborn, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US - Transcriptome of a Climacteric Fruit Species Diospyros Kaki Thunb for Functional Genomics
Farzana Rahman, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, UK - A Method to Separate Function and Fold Specific Residues in Proteins
Mohd Rehan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IN - Falsifying Signalling Pathway Models in System Biology
Mohammad Javad Sadeh, Institute of Functional Genomics Computational Diagnostics Group University of Regensburg, Regensburg, DE - A Novel Therapeutic Drug Targeting Surface Protein of Nipah Virus Using Computational Techniques
Manzur Sayeem, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BD - Antimony Resistance in Visceral Leishmaniasis Might be a Possible Consequence of Serial Mutations in ABC Transporters of Leishmania Species During Evolution
Sukrat Sinha, University of Allahabad, ALLAHABAD, IN - Probabilistic Reconstruction of Protein Interaction Histories Using a Simple Measure of Interaction Affinity
Ryan Topping, Imperial College, London, UK - Are Protein Disordered Regions Equal to Loops?
Esmeralda Vicedo, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE - DMB: a Novel Tool for Logic Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Emanuel Weitschek, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, IT - On Sequence Conservation Space of RNA-Recognizing Residues in Protein Sequences
Li Xue, Iowa State University, Ames, US