October 20-21, 2009 - SAP Lounge Brussels  
 
 
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Conference Programme
Tuesday 20 October 09
11-30-12.30
Registration and Welcome lunch
 Room: Attic 1&2
 
Plenary Introduction
 
12-30-12.40 Dr.P.Stas, Chairman Bio.be, Belgian Association for Bio Industries, CEO Algonomics
 
 
Plenary Session
 
12.40-13.10 “Networks in Drug Discovery: a description on how integrated analysis in a network context could help to identify new intervention points, biomarkers or new disease indications”
Dr.Matthew Hall, UK Team Leader, Computational Biology
GSK Pharma, Stevenage, UK
13.10-13.40 “Innovation from the lab to the computer room at Danone research”
Dr.Jean-Luc Tonneau, Strategic Planning Director
Danone, Paris, F
13-40-14.10 “Through a collaboration with the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Novartis Research Foundation) Life Sciences Framework (LSF) provides a metadata-driven, standards-based infrastructure for life science research”
Dr.John Smit, CEO
Metainformatics, Austin, Texas, US
14.10-14.40 How to maximize synergies between experimental and integrative biology. In-vivo validation of CADI models in Creutzfeldt-Jakob, mad cow disease”
Bio-IT World 2009 Best Practice Award
Dr.Frank Mouthon, CEA, Fontenay aux Roses, F.
Dr.François Iris, CSO, Bio-Modeling Systems, Paris, F.
 
14.40-15.10
Coffee break
 
 
Plenary Session
15.10-15.40 “Metabolite profiling: opening new dimensions in biomarker research”
Dr.Mathieu Klein, Technical Center Leader Bioinformatics
Metanomics, BASF,Berlin, D
15.40-16.10 “Computational modeling of cardiac disease: potential for personalized medicine”
Dr.Matthias Reumann, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, Computational Biology Center
IBM, T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, US
16.10-16.40 “Taming Structures and Reactions”
Pr.Dr.Jonathan Goodman
Group Leader, Dpt of Chemistry, Cambridge University
Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics, UK
16.40-17.10 “Applying text-analytics and knowledge mapping to support drug discovery”
Dr.Luca Toldo, Principal Research Scientist, Knowledge Management
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, D
 
 
Exhibitors speech / Case study
17.10-17.20 DNAVision, Gosselies, B
17.20-17.30 Temis, Paris, F
17.30-17.40 Aureus Pharma, Paris, F
17.40-17.50 BioXpr, Namur, B “The BioXplain Initiative”
 
17.40-19.00
Reception Drink

Wednesday 21 October 09
08.30-09.00
Registration
 
  Pharma and Red Biotech Track Green, White,…Biotech track
   Room: Attic 1&2
 Room: Convention 1
09.00-09.30 Improving antibody properties by semi-rational in-silico engineering: a realistic perspective”
Dr.Philippe Alard, Head of Bioinformatics,
Algonomics, Ghent, B
“Applied bioinformatics in a leading plant breeding company”
Dr.Andreas Menze, R&D Information Management/Bioinformatics
KWS Saat, Einbeck, D
09.30-10.00 “Enabling Interactive Multi-Objective Optimization for Drug Discovery Scientists”
Dr.Ed Champness, CSO
Optibrium, Cambridge, UK
“Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Plant Genomes : status and challenges”
Dr.Laurent Viau, BioAnalysis Services Team Leader, Bioinformation Dpt.
Bayer Crop Sciences, Ghent, B
10.00-10.30 “Computational Drug Repositioning: a description of the challenges and promises of computational approaches in drug repositioning with examples”
Dr.Matthew Hall, UK Team Leader, Computational Biology
GSK Pharma, Stevenage, UK
“Improving T4 phage knowledge using HTS and comparative genomics”
Dr.Catherine Ngom-Bru, Bioinformatician
Nestlé,Lausanne, CH
 
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
 
11.00-11.30 Transcript Profiling for Epithelial-Mesenchymal  Transition (EMT): Signature identification and validation”
Dr.An de Bondt, Senior Scientist
J&J Pharmaceuticals R&D, Beerse, B
“Profiling microbial communities using Next Gen Sequencing: a validation study on human GI-tract samples”
Dr.Lutz Krause, Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Functional Genomics Group, BioAnalytical Science Dpt.
Nestlé,Lausanne, CH
11.30-12.00 “NeuroSpin, Managing Neuroimaging and genetic databases for predicting risk factors”
Dr.Jean-Baptiste Poline, Chargé de Recherche
CEA, Saclay, F
Systems biology of lignification and relevance to biofuels”
Dr.Wout Boerjan, Group Leader, Bio-Energy, Plant Systems Biology,
VIB, Ghent, B
 
 
Plenary Session
 Room: Attic 1&2
12.00-12.40 “A gaze into the crystal ball: What will Future Pharma R&D look like?”
Dr.Thomas Senderovitz, VP, Global Exploratory Medicine,
UCB Pharma, Braine-L'Alleud, B
12.40-13.20 “Patient Centered drug discovery: A translational medicine model integrating systems biology approaches”
Dr.Antoine Bril, Research Associate Director
Servier, Suresnes, F
 
13.20-13.30
Conference Closing Session
 
13.30-14.30
Closing drink

 


 
 
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