8:00-9:00 | Registration |
9:00-9:15 | Welcome remarks |
Session 1: Bugs & hosts | |
9:15-9:55 | Keynote: Roy Kishony (Technion) "Predicting antibiotic resistance" |
9:55-10:15 | Sarit Avrani (Haifa Univ) "Micro and macro diversity are both important to bloom-forming cyanobacteria interactions with their phages" |
10:15-10:35 | Tomer Hertz (Ben Gurion Univ) "Modular cytokine analysis reveals co-signaling cytokines during influenza infection" |
Coffee break | |
Session 2: The life of RNA | |
11:00-11:40 | Keynote: Yael Mandel-Gutfreund (Technion) "Co-regulation and moonlighting in the human gene expression pathway" |
11:40-12:00 | Schragi Schwartz (Weizmann Inst) "Cracking the epitranscriptome" |
12:00-12:20 | Rani Elkon (Tel Aviv Univ) "Identification of regulatory elements that mediate tumor-suppressive and oncogenic functions using CRISPR-based genomic screens" |
12:20-12:40 | Tomer Kalisky (Bar Ilan Univ) "Cellular heterogeneity and splice isoform switching in kidney development" |
12:40-13:00 | Alal Eran (Ben Gurion Univ) "Characterizing the fever effect in autism spectrum disorder" |
Lunch & poster session | |
Session 3: Outside the academic box | |
14:30-14:45 | Noa Matarasso (Psifas) "Israel's national initiative for personalized medicine" |
14:45-15:00 | Yair Benita (CytoReason) "Driving drug development through a cell centered model of immunity" |
15:00-15:15 | Chanan Rubin (Evogene) "Discovery of novel essential plant genes for innovative herbicide development" |
Session 4: DNA->RNA->Protein->Precision Med | |
15:15-15:35 | Noam Kaplan (Technion) "Probabilistic models of the 3D genome" |
15:35-15:55 | Yuval Tabach (Hebrew Univ) "Novel players in the homologues recombination repair pathway revealed through local and global co-evolution analysis across hundreds of genomes" |
15:55-16:15 | Dina Schneidman (Hebrew Univ) "Modeling protein conformational changes with cross-links and SAXS profiles" |
Coffee break | |
16:40-17:20 | International keynote: Bonnie Berger (MIT) "Compressive and privacy-preserving genomics" |
17:20-17:30 | Poster prizes & concluding remarks |