[SocBiN] NETTAB 2017 Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era: Call for posters and for participation

[Romano Paolo]

Dear all,

 

I’m glad to be able to send you the Call for poster abstracts and for Participation in the next NETTAB 2017 workshop.

The workshop appears to be of a special interest this year, with many prestigious speakers already confirmed.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend this event!

 

All the best. Paolo Romano

 

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NETTAB 2017 workshop on

Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era

16-18 October 2017, Palermo, Italy

 

 

Call for poster abstracts

 

Topics

Special 2017 topics: Bioinformatics methods, tools & platforms for personalized medicine, including data management, data analysis, platforms, tools and services.

Bioinformatics methods, standards, tools, applications and experiences deployed over Internet.

See detailed list of topics at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/topics/ .

 

Deadlines

Submission of abstracts for posters and for software demonstrations: Wednesday September 13, 2017.

Submission of abstracts for late posters: Friday October 6, 2017.

Two-page abstracts are welcome. Submission instructions at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/submissions/instructions-for-authors/ .

 

Proceedings and Post workshop publications

Proceedings of the workshop will consist in a collection of preprints on PeerJ Preprints.

A post workshop Special Issue will be published with best full papers from presentations, both oral and poster, given at the Workshop.

A purpose agreement is under discussion with BioMed Central for the publication of Supplements in BMC Bioinformatics and in the Journal of Translation Medicine.

 

 

Call for participation

 

Keynote speakers

Inna Kuperstein, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France.

Anita Grigoriadis, King’s College of London, United Kingdom.

Winston Hide, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA.

Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.

See keynote abstracts at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/ .

 

Guest talks 

Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy

Alexander Kel, GeneXplain Gmbh, Germany.

Chiara Marchiori, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland.

Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy.

Francis Ouellette, Genome Quebec, Canada.

Allegra Via, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy.

See guest talk abstracts at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/speakers/ .

 

Tutorials

Tutorial 1, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30

An introductory tour on Big Data, Big Data technologies, and Big Data applications in Biology and Medicine

Simona Rombo, University of Palermo.

 

Tutorial 2, Monday October 16, 2017, 10:00 – 12:30

Biological network-based analysis of "-omics" for precision medicine: overview, interaction databases and network diffusion approaches

Ettore Mosca, CNR / ITB, Segrate (MI).

 

Tutorial 3, Wednesday October 18, 15:00 – Thursday October 19, 17:00

Biological Networks: data analysis, visualisation and medical application

Alberto Calderone, ELIXIR-IIB, Inna Kuperstein, Institut Curie, Paris, Luana Licata, ELIXIR-IIB.

 

The list of tutorials is available at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/programme/tutorials/ .

Attendance to tutorials is free for workshop participants.

 

Registration fees

Early registrations fees (within September 23, 2017).

·       Students/ PhD Students: 170.00 €

·       Academy/Research: 270.00 €

·       Industry: 400.00 €

A discount of 30.00 € will be applied to researchers from many societies, institutes and projects.

Check the full list at http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/registration/reg_newinfo/ <http://www.igst.it/nettab/2017/registration/reg_newinfo/>  .

 

 

Paolo Romano

Ospedale Policlinico San Martino

Genova, Italy

Skype: p.romano

Email: paolo.romano at hsanmartino.it - paolo.dm.romano at gmail.com

 

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