Life Science Applications

EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Auditorium SG1

Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September 2002

Thursday 26

10.30

Registration and coffee

11.00

Welcome address  and opening

Stefan CATSICAS, VPR EPFL

Introduction

Michel DEVILLE

Matthias Troyer, President of Speedup

Claudine Schmidt-Laine, President of ORAP

Marie-Christine Sawley, Conference manager

11.30-13.00

Session (1)

Intensive Computing in Comparative Genomics

Christian Gautier, CNRS UMR Lyon 1

Bioinformatics Applications in the Food Industry

Frank Desiere, Centre de Recherches Nestlé

Computational issues in the comparison of multiple biological sequences

Cédric Notredame, University of Lausanne

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

Session (2)

Enabling biomedical Informatics with Grid Computing

Joel Saltz, Ohio State University

From NMR Spectra to Protein Structures and Interactions: a Computational Challenge

Martin Billeter, Swedish NMR Centre, Gteborg University

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Simulation and modeling of diffusion in the Endoplasmic Reticulum"

Peter Koumoutsakos, Computational Science, ETH-Zurich

15.30-16.00

Break

16.00-18.00

IT vendors session

High Performance sequence analysis using Cray supercomputers

Bart Mellenbergh, CRAY EMEA Bioinformatics practice leader

In Vivo - In Vitro - In Silico : Shifting the balance with Information Technology

Dominique Gillot, HP EMEA Life Science Business manager

Juan José Porta, Senior IT Architect & Strategist IBM Life Sciences Solutions

Current and future HPC/HPV challenges in Life Science

Fabio Gallo, Director of Marketing of SGI

18.30-22.00

Cocktail and dinner

Friday 27

8.30-10.00

Session (3)

Mesoscopic Models for Computing DNA Tertiary Structures

John Maddocks, Institut Bernoulli, EPFL

DNA dynamics: simulating large systems and slow processes

Richard Lavery, CNRS UPR Paris 7

Computational Requirements for Structure Prediction of Biomolecules"

Thomas Steinke, ZIB

10.00-10.30

Coffee

10.30-12.30

Session (4)

High-throughput SELEX SAGE method for quantitative modeling of transcription-factor binding sites

Philipp Bucher, ISREC and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Outline of the In Silico activities at the Novartis Drug Discovery Centre

Edgar Jacoby, Novartis

Current and Future Computational Challenges in Biopharmaceutical Discovery

Massimo de Francesco, Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute

Darwin: a language for heavy duty computations in bioinformatics"

Gina Cannarrozzi, Institute of Scientific Computing, ETHZ

12.30-13.30

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Panel discussion on education in bio-informatics

Participants: Prof. C. Notredame (UNIL), T. Steinke (ZIB), E. Jacoby (Novartis), M. De Francesco (Serono), Prof. J. Maddocks (EPFL)

16.00-16.15

Conclusion and announcement 33 rd Speedup workshop