Computational Biology Seminar in Leuven, Belgium

Jun 29 2012 - 1:00pm
Jun 29 2012 - 4:00pm
Europe/Brussels

Dear young researcher,

We are pleased to invite you to the first RSG Belgium seminar in Leuven on the 29th of June.
The goal of this seminar is to bring computational biology PhD students and starting Post-Docs together to share research results and experience. Hopefully this will be the first of many.
We have some very interesting talks lined up and we hope that you will be able to attend.

Program:
13h00 - 13h10 : Welcome and introduction
13h10 - 13h40 : 'Biclustering and Differential co-expression Analysis: a way to diagnose the output' by Tatsiana Khamiakova
13h40 - 14h10 : 'Computing Dynamical Phenotypes from Nucleotides: Dissecting Genotype-Phenotype Mappings in Gene Regulatory Networks' by Jayson Gutierrez
14h10 - 14h20 : Break
14h20 - 14h50 : 'Empirical assessment of the quality of the SEQUEST XCorr peptide identification scores' by Fatemeh Zamanzad Ghavidel
14h50 - 15h20 : 'Using bio-inspired principles to improve artificial evolution of a robot population' by Yao Yao
15h20 - 15h30 : Break
15h30 - 16h00 : 'Gene expression compendium creation and exploration system' by Qiang Fu

Location:
Seminar room on the 6th floor, O&N4 at the Gasthuisberg campus in Leuven
Here's a route description to the campus:
http://www.uzleuven.be/en/directions-to-campus-gasthuisberg

If you plan to come by public transport, Leuven train station is approximately 4 km from the Gasthuisberg campus. Buses leave every 10 minutes. Take one of the following buses towards the city center: 3, 16, 333, 334, 335, 338, 370, 371, 373 or 374 to the Gasthuisberg campus which is the final stop, or take the 600 "ring" bus which follows a direct connection between Leuven station and the Gasthuisberg campus . The bus stop is right in front of the main entrance to the hospital.

Hope to see you on the 29th!

RSG Belgium committee