Programme

Please note that the programme is subject to change.


Monday, 9 October

12:45 The registration desk opens*
*Please note that pre-registration is required.


13:30 Welcome & Introduction
Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Sweden
Erik Sonnhammer, Stockholm University, Sweden

Theme 1: Multi-omic and Multi-resolution Modeling of Networks
13:50 Richard Bonneau, New York University, USA
Methods for Learning Network Models Underlying Immune-microbiome Interactions
+ Q & A (5 min)

14:25 Hans V. Westerhoff, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Does the 'Genome' Throw Dice then? About Individualized Medicine, Einstein and
Bohr

+ Q & A (5 min)

15:00 Mona Singh, Princeton University, USA
Network-based Methods for Identifying Cancer Genes
+ Q & A (5 min)

15:35 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:20 Rebecka Jörnsten, Chalmers University of Technology/University of
Gothenburg, Sweden
Large-scale Network Modeling of Cancer: Validation, Feature Extraction
and Comparative Modeling

+ Q & A (5 min)

16:55 Sven Nelander, Uppsala University, Sweden
Multi-genomic Modeling of Brain Tumor Drug Responses Using an Open-access
Library of Patient-derived Cells

+ Q & A (5 min)

17:30 Christian von Mering, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Networks as a Service: Bringing Added Value and Functional Insights to
Experimental Biologists

+ Q & A (5 min)

Tuesday, 10 October

Theme 2: Network Robustness and Targeted Intervention
09:30 Jesper Tegnér, King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Saudi
Arabia, and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
On Causality in Networks
+ Q & A (5 min)

10:05 Edda Klipp, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Systematic Integration of Models and Data for Yeast Growth and Division
+ Q & A (5 min)

10:40 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:25 Erik Sonnhammer, Stockholm University, Sweden
Towards Accurate Gene Regulatory Network Inference from Perturbations
+ Q & A (5 min)

12:00 George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA
An Integrative Statistical Framework for Multi-Modal Omics Data
+ Q & A (5 min)

12:35 Brian Cleary, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Understanding Genetic Networks with Compressive Biology
+ Q & A (5 min)

13:10 LUNCH BREAK

Theme 3: Using Network Biology in Industry and Medicine
14:15 Mika Gustafsson, Linköping University, Sweden
Multi-resolution Network Modelling of T-cells for Precisions Medicine
+ Q & A (5 min)

14:50 Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Systems Biology of Yeast Metabolism
+ Q & A (5 min)

15:25 Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University and Harvard University, USA
Network Medicine: From Cellular Networks to the Human Diseasome
+ Q & A (5 min)

16:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:45 Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Transcriptional Networks in Cancer
+ Q & A (5 min)

17:20 David Gomez-Cabrero, King's College London, UK, and Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden
Uncovering Time-resolved Regulation from Proliferating to Resting B Cell
Progenitors by Network-based Multi-omics Data Integration

+ Q & A (5 min)

17:55 Olli Kallioniemi, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Precision Systems Cancer Medicine
+ Q & A (5 min)

18:30
DINNER

Wednesday, 11 October

Theme 4: Emerging Mathematical Approaches to Networks
09:00 Edward Marcotte, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Title TBA
+ Q & A (5 min)

09:35 Stéphane Robin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Detecting Change-points in the Structure of a Network: Exact Bayesian Inference
+ Q & A (5 min)

10:10 Sach Mukherjee, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn,
Germany
Causal Networks in Molecular Biology
+ Q & A (5 min)

10:45 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:30 Michael Brent, Washington University in St Louis, USA
The Semantics of Transcription Factor Network Maps and the Limitations of
Experimental Data

+ Q & A (5 min)

12:05 Ernst C. Wit, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Statistics for Biological Networks
+ Q & A (5 min)

12:40 Jean-Philippe Vert, École Normale Supérieure and MINES Paris-Tech, France
Graph Wavelets to Analyze Genomic Data with Biological Networks
+ Q & A (5 min)

13:15 (-13:25) Concluding remarks