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 |
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