Directly preceding Tutorials' Day of ISMB/ECCB 2011
15 July 2011 @ Austria Center Vienna

Registration

2011 Awards for Outstanding Oral Presentations and Posters

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

  1. 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
  2. Predicting Protein Associations with Long Noncoding RNAs
    Federico Agostini, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES
  3. Minimum Curvilinearity to Address High-Throughput Protein-Protein Interaction Experiments
    Gregorio Alanis-Lobato, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, SA
  4. Explanation of Helicobacter Pylori Virulence and Adaptation Based on Proteogenomic Analysis
    Dmitry Alexeev, Russian Institute Of Physico-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, RU
  5. A Unified View on Regulatory Genomics
    Sonja Althammer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES
  6. In Silico Phenotype Prediction of Ionizing-Radiation-Resistant Bacteria by Extraction of Discriminative Motifs
    Sabeur Aridhi, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont Ferrand, FR
  7. Curation and Analysis of Polyketide Metabolism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
    Anshu Bhardwaj, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN
  8. Structural Comparison of Erwinase and E. Coli L-Asparaginase to Facilitate Rational Reengineering of a Cancer Drug
    Mainá Bitar, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE
  9. Maximizing the Number of Aligned Reads from RNA-Seq Data
    Thomas Bonfert, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, DE
  10. Discovery of Novel Causes of Oncogenic Pathway Activation with REVEALER
    Olga Botvinnik, Broad Institute, Cambridge, US
  11. Distribution and Influence of Cation-pi Interactions between Native and Mutant Prions
    George Priya Doss C, VIT University, Vellore, IN
  12. 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
  13. Finding Consistent Explanations for Observations from Genome-Wide Mutant Assays
    Deborah Chasman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, US
  14. 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
  15. Comparative proteomic Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Viral and Bacterial Meningitis
    Ana Cordeiro, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, BR
  16. Combinatorial Approach to Discovering Biomarkers for Disorders of the Eye
    Jigisha Darbha, University of Geneva, Geneva, CH
  17. A Semantic Web Infrastructure for Bioinformatics of Staphylococcus Aureus
    Cândida Delgado, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, PT
  18. A Comparative Study of HMM Classifier on Protein Sequence Classification
    Wajdi Dhifli, LIMOS - Blaise Pascal University, Aubière, FR
  19. 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
  20. Finding Active Subnetworks in Diseases by Using Integrated Biological Networks
    Raj Gaire, University of Melbourne, Carlton, AU
  21. mTIM: margin-based Transcript Identification from RNA-Seq
    Nico Goernitz, Technical University Berlin & MPI Tuebingen, Berlin, DE
  22. Predict Subcellular Localization for Proteins in All Kingdoms
    Tatyana Goldberg, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE
  23. Analysis of Trypanosoma Cruzi Gene Expression in Response to Ionizing Radiation
    Priscila Grynberg, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, BR
  24. Toward PWAS: Discovering Pathways Associated with Human Disorders
    Emre Guney, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, ES
  25. Cholesterol--Responsive Gene Network Reconstruction from Hypercholesterolemic Mice Transcriptome Data
    Gustavo Hime, Freiburg Institute For Advanced Studies, Freiburg, DE
  26. Web-based Interactive Protein Contact Maps with PConPy2
    Hui Kian Ho, University of Melbourne, Carlton, AU
  27. Multi-Access Module for the Identification of Trees of Gujarat State
    Minal Jani, Sardar Patel University, Anand, IN
  28. 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
  29. Computational Analysis of DNA Replicases in Double-Stranded DNA Viruses: Relationship with the Genome Size
    Darius Kazlauskas, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LT
  30. The MAP Interactome in Drosophila: an Integrative Systems Biology Quest for New Mitotic Proteins
    Faisal Khan, University of Oxford, Exeter, UK
  31. System-Level Analysis of Cell Line Data for Targeted Drug Discovery
    Nayoung Kim, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, KR
  32. Spectral Classification of Short Numerical Exon and Intron Sequences
    Benjamin Kwan, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CA
  33. A Knowledge Federation Strategy for Integrating Genotype-to-Phenotype Data
    Pedro Lopes, University of Aveiro
  34. Computational Analysis of Genetic Network Related to Pancreatic Cancer in Human
    Mrinal Mishra, VIT University, Vellore, IN
  35. Identification of Functionally Important Residues Rowards Substrate Stabilization in Family 11 Microbial Xylanases
    Karthik Mvk, Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra, Hyderabad, IN
  36. Cross Genome Analysis of Histone Orthologs and Chromosomal Networks in Nucleosomes Across Species
    Preetam Nayak, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, IN
  37. 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
  38. Mining Gene Ontology Data with AGENDA
    Guvanch Ovezmyradov, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, DE
  39. Cryptosporidium Species, Gastroenteric Pathogens and CD4 Counts in North Central Nigeria
    Victoria Pam, National Veterinary Research Institute,Vom,Plateau State,Nigeria, Jos, NG
  40. A Non-Biased Framework for the Annotation and Classification of the Non-miRNA Small RNA Transcriptome
    Lorena Pantano, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
  41. Comparative Genome-Wide Analysis of transcription Initiation and Promoter Architecture in Eukaryotes
    R. Taylor Raborn, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US
  42. Transcriptome of a Climacteric Fruit Species Diospyros Kaki Thunb for Functional Genomics
    Farzana Rahman, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, UK
  43. A Method to Separate Function and Fold Specific Residues in Proteins
    Mohd Rehan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IN
  44. Falsifying Signalling Pathway Models in System Biology
    Mohammad Javad Sadeh, Institute of Functional Genomics Computational Diagnostics Group University of Regensburg, Regensburg, DE
  45. A Novel Therapeutic Drug Targeting Surface Protein of Nipah Virus Using Computational Techniques
    Manzur Sayeem, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BD
  46. 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
  47. Probabilistic Reconstruction of Protein Interaction Histories Using a Simple Measure of Interaction Affinity
    Ryan Topping, Imperial College, London, UK
  48. Are Protein Disordered Regions Equal to Loops?
    Esmeralda Vicedo, Technische Universität München, Garching, DE
  49. DMB: a Novel Tool for Logic Data Mining in Bioinformatics
    Emanuel Weitschek, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, IT
  50. On Sequence Conservation Space of RNA-Recognizing Residues in Protein Sequences
    Li Xue, Iowa State University, Ames, US

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