8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45 am - 9:30 am
Keynote: Integration of heterogeneous data in Biology: From chemicals to ecosystems
Peer Bork, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

9:30 am - 10:15 am
Student Presentations (3 x 15 min)
Wouter Meuleman, Netherlands Cancer Insitute / Delft University of Technology
Dynamics in genome organisation during cell differentiation
Sebastian J Schultheiss, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
KIRMES: Kernel-based Identification of Regulatory Modules in Euchromatic Sequences
Rayan Chikhi, ENS Cachan/IRISA
Paired-end read length lower bounds for genome resequencing

10:15 am – 10:45 am
Coffee Break

10:45 am – 11:30 am
Student Presentations (3 x 15 min)

Van Du Thuong Tran, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole Polytechnique
Prediction of super-secondary structure in alfa-helical and beta-barrel transmembrane proteins
Martina I. Koeva, University of California, Santa Cruz
Core stemness mechanisms revealed through homology
Phil Hyoun Lee, Queen’s University
Functionally Informative Tag SNP Selection using a Pareto-Optimal Approach: Playing the Game of Life

11:30 am-12:30 pm
Research and Industry Partners Session
Barend Mons
Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre
How the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) adds value to bioinformatics research
Jong Bhak
Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), Daejeon, Korea
The first Korean genome sequence and analysis: Full genome sequencing for a socio-ethnic group

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote: In search of overlooked functions: Hidden connections among proteins, toxins and viruses
Michal Linial, ISMB 2008 Co-chair; ECCB President,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Student Presentations (2 x 15 min)
Teresa Jadwiga Szczepinska, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Looking for chromosome spatial organization rules in microarray gene expression data
Nils Gehlenborg, European Bioinformatics Institute
Visualization of Large Microarray Experiments with Space Maps

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Tutorial (R/Bioconductor): Mapping phenotype space with RNAi screen and cellular imaging experiments
Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Bioinformatics in the era of personal genomics
Nancy Pedersen, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Subhajyoti De, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Keynote: Biological Networks: Facebook for Proteins
Trey Ideker, UC San Diego School of Medicine, USA

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Remarks

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Poster Session