The interuniversity Doctorate Programme in Bioinformatics is an official program jointly organized by the Universitat Atònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Universitat de Girona (UdG), the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) with the participation of the Bioinformatics Barcelona Association (BIB). Each year, the main activity for the PhD training consists in a workshop to present the current status of the different PhD projects to develop networking among the participants and their research competences.
This year, the annual workshop is held in Vic, a beautiful historical and cultural landmark city in the center of Catalunya.
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Program
Book of abstracts (soon)
| When | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Opening: Malu Calle (Dean of the FCTE, UVic-UCC ), Margarida Julià (UAB, Coordinator of the Interuniversity PhD program), Marta Otero (Director of the PhD school, UVic-UCC) | |
| Session A. Chair: Ferran Prados (UOC) | ||
| 9:45 | Elisenda Bonet-Carne, CEO & Co-founder – fetaLife Technologies S.L. | K1: From research to innovation: fetaLife – a fetal Liquid Incubator for extrem preterm babies |
| 10:30 | Jordi Cabrera (UAB) | C1: POPKARYOTE, a novel tool to infer population genomics statistics from prokaryotic organisms |
| 10:50 | Coffee break and poster session. Physical posters from P1 to P30. Online posters from PO1 to PO9 | |
| Session B. Chair: Rui Alves (UdL) | ||
| 11:30 | Pol Ezquerra (UPC) | C2: Cross cohort integration of whole blood RNA-Seq samples: Normalization units comparison and stable housekeeping gene selection |
| 11:50 | Carla Casanova (UAB) | C3: Evolutionary analysis of diet adaptations in anatomically modern humans using ancient genomes |
| 12:10 | Gabriel Ruiz (UVic-UCC) | C4: Missense variants pathogenicity annotation from homologous proteins |
| 12:30 | Vicent Caselles (UOC) | C5: TimeLesSeg: Unified Contrast-Agnostic Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal MS Lesion Segmentation via a Stochastic Generative Model |
| 12:50 | Lunch time | |
| Session C. Chair: Jordi Villà-Freixa (UVic-UCC) | ||
| 14:10 | Julia Lisa (UdL) | C6: Mediterranean hidden bioactives: discovery and characterization of plant cysteine-rich peptides |
| 14:30 | Ruben González (UOC) | C7: Quantifying uncertainty in cardiovascular risk prediction from Fundus images |
| 14:50 | Coffee break and poster session. Physical posters from P31 to P60. Online posters from PO10 to PO18 | |
| Session D. Chair: Pere-Pau Vázquez | ||
| 15:30 | Roger Giné (URV) | C8: Benchmarking MS/MS spectral representations for machine learning-driven metabolite identification |
| 15:50 | Eduard Ocaña Pallarès, Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. | K2: Reconstructing and deconstructing the eukaryotic tree of life: The horizontal dimension of evolution |
| 16:35 | Best-poster announcement and closing | |
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Venue
The workshop will take place at the Aula Magna, UVic-UCC, at the UVic Torre dels Frares building.
Registration, Submissions and Communications
Abstract submissions will be handled from the PhD program moodle site at the coordinating institution, UAB trhough this link.
Registration os free for general attendance, but mandatory through this other link.
Communications will be oral or posters:
- Oral communications: 15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion. Ensure your presentations are in the proper format and ready to be shown in the room. We would appreciate uploading them to the room computer prior to your session in a compatible format like PDF or windows PPTX.
- Posters: size DINA1. We will provide cello tape.
Organized by
The organizing committee is composed by the members of the academic comission of the PhD program:
- Margarida Julià, coordinator of the PhD program, UAB
- Alejandro Sánchez, UB
- Robert Martí, UdG
- Rui Alves, UdL
- Jordi Villà-Freixa, UVic-UCC
- Ferran Prados, UOC
- Marta Casanellas, UPC
- Gerard Pujadas, URV
The secretariat is composed by:
- Jordi Villà-Freixa, UVic-UCC
- Roger Casals, IRIS-CC and UVic-UCC
- Nayanika Das, UVic-UCC
- Jing Yang, UVic-UCC
- Sergi Soldevila, UVic-UCC
- Gabriel Ruiz, UVic-UCC
- Yolanda Tristancho, Secretary FCTE, UVic-UCC
- Laia Capdevila Arumí, UVic-UCC Doctoral School
Supported by
The event is supported by
with the collaboration of
Contact
Facultat de Ciències, Tecnologia i Enginyeries
Edifici Torre dels Frares
C/ Laura, 13
08500 Vic
Barcelona (SPAIN)
Tel: +34 93 881 55 19
e-mail: secretaria.fcte@uvic.cat