Schedule

Join us at BOD 2024 for three days of knowledge sharing, innovation and networking in the dynamic field of Bioinformatics.

MARCH 14TH - THURSDAY
09:30 H
Opening Session
10:00 H
Keynote Lecture

Cell Level Simulations and Digital Twins

Alfonso Valencia

10:45 H
Coffee Break
11:00 H
Keynote Lecture

The Role of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery

Cátia Pesquita

12:00 H
Round table

Bioinformatics in Portugal and Spain - the present and future perspectives

Alfonso Valencia, Cátia Pesquita

Chaired by Inês Chaves

12:45 H
Lunch
14:00 H
Keynote Lecture

Understanding the functional potential of microbial communities

Robert Finn

14:45 H
Oral Communications [Session 1]

Get to know MIMt! A new, smaller and curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification - M. Pilar Cabezas

Prediction of novel small RNAs from Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Vânia Pobre

Finding novel genes coding for eco-friendly surfactants from hypersaline Iberian locations using metagenomic approaches - Cátia Santos Pereira

Individual-based modelling elucidates about the role of nanomaterials on methane production - João Sequeira

15:45 H
Poster Highlights [Session 1]
16:00 H
Poster Session 1 & Coffee Break

Posters nº 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

16:45 H
Oral Communications [Session 2]

An Automated Structure-Based Platform for Gene Discovery and Enzyme Engineering - João Correia

Computationally-designed miniproteins showing neutralization activity against SARS-CoV-2 - Pedro Moreira

Deep Learning on Chaos Game Representation for Resistome - Javier Montoya

Modeling deep neural network architectures to improve schizophrenia predictability using genotype data - Daniel Martins

17:45 H
End of day 1
20:00 H
Social Dinner and post-dinner activities

Migaitas, Braga

MARCH 15TH - FRIDAY
09:30 H
Keynote Lecture

Computational design of tailor-made of antiviral biopharmaceuticals

Diana Lousa

10:15 H
Poster Highlights [Session 2 - software]
10:30 H
Poster Session 2 & coffee break

Software and applications

Posters nº 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

11:15 H
Oral Communications [session 3]

A network science approach to interpret multidimensional associations between human transcriptome, tissues and traits - Darmit Kumar

The Portuguese Variome from over 12,000 Exomes: Streamlining Clinical Diagnostics and Translational Research - Mariana Ribeiro

Runs of homozygosity: bioinformatic approaches for diagnostic purposes and population analysis in 12,000 exomes - Susana Valente

Sequence to graph alignment based copy number calling using a flow network formulation - Hugo Magalhães

Plugging the holes: an intuitive software tool for reproducibility in Molecular Biology - Patrícia Fernandes

12:30 H
Lunch
14:00 H
Session with companies

Silico Life, OmniumAI, Accenture, iLoF

15:00 H
Job fair and coffee break
16:00 H
Closing Session
17:00 H
Social Activities: Quizz

Carpe Noctem

19:00 H
Social Activities: BBQ

Carpe Noctem

MARCH 16TH - SATURDAY
09:30 H
Workshops

[1] Introduction to RNA-Seq data analysis

Vânia Pobre

[2] Tools and computational resources for the life sciences

Gil Poiares-Oliveira

[3] Introduction to Computational Protein Design Tools

Pedro Moreira

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