The 67th NIBB Conference / The 6th Quest for Orthologs Meeting

Quest for Orthologs

Program

 
Program  
July 31 (Wed) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
Optional Session
10:00 - 12:00 QfO Consortium Session I: Working Group Update
   
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
Opening Remarks
13:00 - 13:05 Naoto Ueno (Vice-Director General, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
13:05 - 13:10 Ikuo Uchiyama (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
Session 1
13:10 - 13:35 "Quest for Orthologs at 10 years"
  Christophe Dessimoz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
   
13:35 - 14:00 "InParanoid improvements and spin-offs"
  Erik Sonnhammer (Stockholm University, Sweden)
   
14:00 - 14:25 "Ortholog Finder: A Tool for Constructing an Ortholog Data Set for phylogenetic analysis"
  Tokumasa Horiike (Shizuoka University, Japan)
   
14:25 - 14:40 "A genetic algorithm for refining orthology determinations"
  Madison Hansen (American Museum of Natural History, USA)
   
14:40 - 15:10 Coffee Break
   
15:10 - 15:45 "OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics"
  Steven Kelly (University of Oxford, UK)
   
15:45 - 16:10 "Orthology predictions at scale in Ensembl"
  Mateus Patricio (EMBL-EBI, UK)
   
16:10 - 16:35 "Orthology Relationships among Pan-Genomes: the Microbial Genome Database (MBGD) for Exploring Microbial Diversity"
  Ikuo Uchiyama (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
16:35 - 16:50 "OrthoDB Recent Developments"
  Evgenia Kriventseva (University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland)
   
16:50 - 17:00 "Investigating evolutionary histories with OrthoInspector 3.0"
  Yannis Nevers (ICUBE/University of Strasbourg, France)
   
17:00 - 17:10 Short Break
   
Poster Session
17:10 - 17:50 Poster Flash Talk
17:50 - 18:50 Poster Session(poster_list.pdf 86k)
   
August 1 (Thu) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
Session 2
09:00 - 09:35 "From KEGG Orthology to Modules and Human Diseases"
  Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto University, Japan)
   
09:35 - 10:00 "Towards accessible functional discovery in any fully sequenced genome"
  Damian Szklarczyk (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
   
10:00 - 10:25 "Targeted and feature-aware searches in the quest for functionally
equivalent—and diverged—orthologs in large taxon collections"
  Ingo Ebersberger (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
   
10:25 - 10:50  Coffee Break
   
10:50 - 11:15 "Uncovering Strategies and Evolution of Microbes by Comparative
Genomics, Comparative Metagenomics, and Metaepigenomics"
  Wataru Iwasaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
   
11:15 - 11:40 "Multi-level phylogenetic profiling with BLUR"
  Odile Lecompte (ICUBE/University of Strasbourg, France)
   
11:40 - 11:50 "Computationally Efficient Phylogenetic Profiling using Orthology Datasets"
  David Moi (UNIL, Switzerland)
   
11:50 - 12:00 "Unraveling the Microbial Gene Repertoire by Sub-gene Level Orthologous Clustering"
  Hirokazu Chiba (Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan)
   
12:00 - 12:10 Group Photo
   
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch
   
Session 3
13:00 - 13:35 "Evolutionary Plasticity of Multidomain Proteins has Surprising Consequences for Orthology"
  Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   
13:35 - 14:00 "Evolution of gene clustering in eukaryotes"
  Toni Gabaldón (Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
   
14:00 - 14:25 "Ortholog Analyses Reveal Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Novelty - Lessons from Insect Genomes"
  Shuji Shigenobu (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
14:25 - 14:55 Coffee Break
   
14:55 - 15:20 "Orthology and ancestral genome reconstruction"
  Paul D. Thomas (University of Southern California, USA)
   
15:20 - 15:45 "Reshaping the Polyploidized Vertebrate Genomes: Case Studies on Developmental Regulators"
  Shigehiro Kuraku (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
   
15:45 - 16:10 "Disparity of genomic fields may affect the fate of genes"
  Yuichiro Hara (Nagoya University, Japan)
   
16:10 - 16:20 "Fitting Evolutionary Distances to Hierarchical Orthologous Groups"
  Alex Warwick Vesztrocy (University College London, UK)
   
16:20 - 16:30 Short Break
   
16:30 - 17:30 Round Table Discussion
   
17:30 - 19:30 Banquet along with Poster Session
   
August 2 (Fri) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
Session 4
09:00 - 09:35 "Accounting for alternative splicing for the reconstruction of gene and transcript evolution"
  Aida Ouangraoua (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
   
09:35 - 10:00 "Improving Protein Sequence Quality – Shrinking the Gaps"
  William R. Pearson (University of Virginia, USA)
   
10:00 - 10:25 "Improving gene Classification with Phylo-kmers"
  Benjamin Linard (LIRMM, France)
   
10:25 - 10:50 Coffee Break
   
10:50 - 11:15 "OpenEBench. The ELIXIR Platform For Benchmarking"
  Salvador Capella-Gutierrez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
   
11:15 - 11:30 "Orthology Benchmarking in the Quest for Orthologs Community"
  Adrian Altenhoff (ETH Zurich / Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland)
   
11:30 - 11:55 "Assigning Standardized Gene Nomenclature To Vertebrate Orthologs:
Updates From The Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee"
  Tamsin Jones (EMBL-EBI, UK)
   
11:55 - 12:10 "Querying Explicit and Implicit Homology Relations with ORTHology Ontology"
  Tarcisio M. de Farias (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
   
Closing Remarks
12:10 - 12:15 Christophe Dessimoz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
   
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
   
Optional Session
13:15 - 15:00 QfO Consortium Session II: Future Planning