22nd
Lars Juhl Jensen
Research professor in disease systems biology at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen. Co-founder of the company Intomics. My specialty is data and text mining.
Jian Xu presenting approaches to use meta-genomics, -transcriptomics, and -metabolomics for studying the gut microbiota as well as organisms useful for the production of biofuels.
Francesca Ciccarelli gives a short presentation of how a unified tree
of life was constructed based on concatenated protein alignments.
Roland Krause explains how to identify orthologous genes and why it is important to discriminate between orthologs and homologs.
Shamil Sunyaev gives a great overview on the many different algorithms and tools for reconstruction of phylogenetic trees.
Francesca Ciccarelli presents a new database called “Network of Cancer Genes” that contains information on the evolution and interactions of cancer genes (http://bio.ifom-ieo-campus.it/ncg/).
Jan Korbel gives a beautiful example of how even high-resolution maps can be flawed. This old map of the world is pretty accurate except from Australia being absent.
Rebecca Wade explaining how molecular simulations can be used to estimate parameters needed for modeling of biological systems.
Shamil Sunyaev asking the question that I think many researchers should ask themselves more often: why bother?