BIG DATA AND PRECISION MEDICINE

An event organized by GENYO together with two leaders in the IT sector, Intel and Atos.

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Introduction

The meeting will be held in GENYO facilities the 24th of November and will gather researchers from academia and industry to present cutting-edge approaches in the context of the application of bioinformatics methodologies in Precision Medicine.

The aims of this one day-conference is to share experiences in using large-scale data analysis and technology platforms in biomedicine projects, identify challenges and future research direction.

 

Date

The event organized by Genyo in collaboration with Intel and Atos will be held on:

Thursday, November 24, 2016
09:50am to 04:40pm
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Location

Auditorium of the Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada

Agenda

Thursday, November 24

09:50

Welcome Introduction

Jose A. Lorente, Director of GENYO.

10:00

Bioinformatics Goes Translational: Infrastructural Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data and Precision Medicine

Keynote talk.
Rolf Apweiler, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI.

10:40

The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute in the context of ELIXIR/EXCELERATE

Salvador Capella, Chief Technology Officer at the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB).

11:00

Break

11:30

Applying Translational Bioinformatics in Personalized Medicine: sharing experiences and challenges

Fátima Al-Shahrour, head of the Translational Bioinformatics Unit at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, CNIO.

11:50

Integrating the Omics: Methods and applications

Pedro Carmona-Sáez, Head of the Bioinformatics Unit at GENYO.

12:10

Implementing precision medicine in hospitals: the challenges of translational research

Francisco del Castillo, Genetic Service of the Ramon y Cajal hospital and Scientific Director of UCA translational Genomics IRYCIS.

12:30

Methylome analyses and expression profiles of microRNAs in virtual machines: avoiding privacy issues in handling medical data

Michael Hackenberg. Associate Professor at the University of Granada.

12:50

Precision Medicine goes megascale

Natalia Jiménez – Life Science Business Development Manager at Atos.

13:10

Lunch

15:00

BigBioData, Human Disease and Senescence

Keynote talk.

Arcadi Navarro, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).

15:40

Building capacities for genomic medicine in the Canary Islands

Manuel Cendagorta, CEO of Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies.

16:00

Uncovering the hidden genotypic and phenotypic architecture of complex diseases

Coral del Val, Associate Professor. Department Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Granada.

16:20

Lost in translation: Minding the gap between genomic research and genomic medicine

Robert Sugar, Healthcare and Life Sciences architect at Intel.

16:40

Closing

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