Program

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