BioNetVisA 2021 workshop

From biological network reconstruction to data visualization and analysis in molecular biology and medicine

The workshop presentations are available here

BioNetVisA workshop brings together different actors of network biology from database providers, networks creators, computational biologists, biotech companies involved in data analysis and modeling to experimental biologists, clinicians that use systems biology approaches. The participants are exposed to the different paradigms of network biology and the latest achievements in the field.

Motivation

The goal of BioNetVisA workshop is to build a discussion around various approaches for biological knowledge formalisation, data integration and analysis; compatibility between different methods and biological networks resources available the field; applicability for concrete research and clinical projects depending on scientific question and type of high-throughput data.

The BioNetVisA workshop aims at identifying bottlenecks and proposing short- and long-term objectives for the community as discussing questions about accessibility of available tools for wide range of user in every-day standalone application in biological and clinical labs. In addition, the possibilities for collective efforts by academic researchers, clinicians, biotech companies and future development directions in the field will be discussed during the round table panel.

BioNetVisA 2021 Program

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

Session 1

9:00 - 9:30 Looking Closely at Molecular Interactions Henning Hermjakob EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK Abstract

9:30 - 10:00 Fine tuning a logical model of cancer cells to predict drug synergies: combining manual curation and automated parameterization Åsmund Flobak NTNU, Trondheim, NO Abstract

10:00 - 10:15 A novel approach to maximize network lifetime using novenary model in WSN Sushree Pradhan Sambalpur University Insitute of Information Technology, IN Abstract

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee break

Session 2

10:45 - 11:00 Enhancing the usefulness of transcriptome data in the context of Leishmania-infected macrophages with pathways biocuration and mathematical modelling Julieth Murillo Silva Pontifica Universidad Javeriana-Cali, CO Abstract

11:00 - 11:30 Evaluating the Reproducibility of Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Network Inference Algorithms Laura Cantini IBENS – ENS, Paris, FR Abstract

11:30 - 12:00 Regularization for sparsity, biological priors and neural networks in cancer survival models Valentina Boeva ETH, Zurich, CH Abstract

12:00 - 12:15 Kinase interaction network expands functional and disease roles of human kinases Marija Buljan Empa, Materials Science and Technology, Zurich, CH Abstract

12:15 - 13:30: Lunch

Session 3

13:30 - 14:00 Personalized anti-cancer drug treatment choice using RNA-seq and network analysis Alexander Kel neXplain, Wolfenbüttel, DE Abstract

14:00 - 14:30 Quantitative systems pharmacology model-based drug target discovery for influenza Thomas Helikar University of Nebraska, Nebraska, US Abstract

14:30 - 15:00 Molecular interaction networks controlling neural stem cells Rupert W Overall Humboldt University of Berlin, DE Abstract

15:00 - 15:15 Prediction of intratumor transcriptional heterogeneity from bulk tumors Agnieszka Kraft ETH, Zurich, CH Abstract

15:15 - 15:30 An explainable deep learning approach to kidney cortex cell classification Thomas Chen Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, US Abstract

15:30 - 16:00 Graphia: A platform for the graph-based visualisation and analysis of high dimensional data Tom Freeman The University of Edinburgh, Edinburhg, UK Abstract

17:00: Start [BC]2 (Welcome words and lecture)
16:30 - 22:00 [BC]2 Welcome drinks and "party"

Important dates

August 16	Abstracts submission deadline
August 20	Selected speaker's notification
September 5	Registration deadline
September 13	BioNetVisA 2021 workshop

Topics

Graphical representation of biological knowledge
Molecular interaction and pathway databases
Comprehensive signalling networks
Networks annotation and curation
High-throughput data visualization, analysis and interpretation in the context of networks
Multi-scale networks (genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, lipidome..)
Contextualization of networks (species, diseases, developmental stages…)
Networks of inter-cellular communication
Network modelling
Machine learning/Artificial Intelligence approaches in network biology
Basic research and clinical application of networks
Microbiome and networks
Single-cell data and network inference
Networks for drug repositioning and disease coomorbidity

Abstract submission

We invite to submit your abstract for a talk or a poster in the topics described above.
The submission deadline is on August 1st 2021
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific program committee and a notification of acceptance for a talk or a poster will be provided to the corresponding author by August 5th, 2021

Abstract format:
Title
List of authors (the first author is the presenting autor)
Affiliations
Abstract text in unstructured format (maximum 300 words)


Submission process
The link below will take you to the EasyChair submission page. Once logged, click on the 'Submission' tab to start the submission process. Enter authors, title without HTML elements, abstract up to 300 words, keywords, and indicate three-five relevant topics.

To assist us with creating the abstract booklet, please upload the same abstract as a word document in the section called "Upload Paper" using this TEMPLATE

When the form is adequately filled out, press the 'Submit' button. You will receive an email from the conference "EasyChair". This email is solely a notification that EasyChair for BioNetVisA2019 has received the abstract.

Submit your abstract here

Registration and accomodation

Please note that all registrations to the workshop and accommodation arrangements have to be done through the [BC]2 registration webpage

Venue

Biozentrum-the new building- University of Basel
Spitalstrasse 41
4056 Basel, Switzerland

Organising committee

Emmanuel Barillot (Institut Curie, France)
Hioraki Kitano (Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
Inna Kuperstein (Institut Curie, France)
Cristobal Monraz Gomez (Institut Curie, France)
Andrei Zinovyev (Institut Curie, France)
Samik Ghosh (Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
Robin Haw (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada)
Alfonso Valencia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain)

Contact us

bionetvisa@curie.fr