Novel technological advances have allowed biologists to take a sharp turn in their approaches to decipher molecular function and basis of physiological and pathological mechanisms. This conference will bring together researchers who are applying and developing novel “OMICs” approaches with an ultimate goal of understanding the functions of genes & proteins of therapeutic importance. The aim of the conference is to assess the current state of the art for approaches to gain functional understanding of human diseases. The meeting will feature sessions on targeting the vulnerabilities of diseased cells, new technologies such as high-throughput CRISPR and RNAi screens, automated phenotyping, metabolomics, and chemical genomics, as well as bioinformatics approaches for biomedical research.
Invited speakers
Short talk speakers
| Christoph Borchers (University of Victoria, Canada) | Jennifer Van Eyk (Cedar Sinai Medical Centre, USA) |
| Cheree Fitzgibbon (Systems Biology Ireland) | Stefan Kalkhof (Leipzig, Germany) |
| Philip Kim (University of Toronto, Canada) | Thomas Kislinger (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada) |
| Petra Krznar (ETH, Zurich) | Lara Mahal (New York University, USA) |
| Mike Moran (University of Toronto, Canada) | Armin Pause (McGill University, Canada) |
| Gali Prag (Tel Aviv University, Israel ) | Daniela Rotin (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) |
| Heiko Runz (Merck, Sharp & Dohme, USA) | Punit Saraon (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| Jan Tavernier (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) | Christine Vogel (New York University, USA) |
Workshops
1st WORKSHOP – Behind the Scenes of Scientific Publishing
Ruth Zearfos - Scientific Editor, Cell Reports
Maria Polychronidou - Scientific Editor, Molecular Systems Biology
Natalie de Souza - Chief Editor, Nature Methods
2nd WORKSHOP – Career workshop
Moderator: Iva Tolić (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)
Uwe Sauer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
John Yates III (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Anita Kriško (MedILS, Croatia)
Susan Michaelis (Johns Hopkins University, USA )
Tony Hunter (Salk Institute, USA)
Geert Kops (Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands)
Conference will be held in Split in MedILS Date: 03.-07.07.2017.
