Schedule

Join us at BOD 2023 for three days of knowledge sharing, innovation and networking in the dynamic field of Bioinformatics.

MARCH 16TH - THURSDAY
09:30 H
Opening Session
10:00 H
Scientific Session [Sponsored by BioData.pt]

Genomic Data Infrastructure for Health Research Panel

Chaired by Ana Melo

Kjell Peterson, Ana Teresa Freitas, Sérgio Sousa and Maria Salazar

11:30 H
Coffee Break
11:45 H
Oral Communications [Session 1]

Structural Bioinformatics

A bioinformatics approach to study the permeation of solutes through PfAQP for the development of new antimalarial therapies - Marta Batista

Computational study of promising smart metallodrug delivery systems - Inês Pires

Molecular Dynamics as an active resource on the development of new formulations for commercial use: The case of natural silicone alternatives - Tiago Ferreira

The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on the receptor binding domain conformational dynamics and interaction with human ACE2 - Rita I. Teixeira

12:45 H
Posters Highlights
13:00 H
Lunch
14:30 H
Keynote Lecture

Multi-country outbreak of monkeypox virus: genomics as a tool to identify genetic clustering, transmission dynamics and the role of Portugal in the international virus spread

João Paulo Gomes

15:15 H
Oral Communications [Session 2]

Genomics and Systems Biology

Energy demand and enzyme budget trade-offs modulate the accuracy of dynamic Flux Balance Analysis - David Henriques

MUG: a mutation overview of GPCR subfamily A17 receptors - Ana B. Caniceiro

A comparative genomics approach to assess interspecific variability associated with cork development - Filippo Bergeretti

Characterization of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) intra and inter-varietal diversity using whole genome resequencing - Sara Freitas

16:15 H
Poster Communications [Session 1]

Methods and Applications

Posters nº. 5, 8, 14, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35 and 41.

17:00 H
Coffee Break
17:15 H
Bioinformatics Portuguese League Final Session
20:00 H
Formal Dinner

Migaitas, Braga

MARCH 17TH - FRIDAY
09:30 H
Keynote Lecture

The environmental impacts of bioinformatics: how bad is it and what can we do about it?

Loïc Lannelongue

10:15 H
Poster Highlights
10:30 H
Poster Communications [Session 2]

Software and applications

Posters no. 2, 3, 6, 9, 13, 16, 17, 24, 26, 36, 37, 39 and 40.

11:15 H
Coffee Break
11:30 H
Oral Communications [Session 3]

Knowledge representation and machine learning

Identification of gene regulatory modules acting in the interaction between cork development and environmental variable - Hugo Rodrigues

The ImmunoPeptidomics Ontology: design and evaluation - Patrícia Eugénio

Exploring self-attention mechanisms and deep reinforcement learning for the de novo drug design - Tiago Pereira

ngest: A Scalable Snakemake Pipeline for Customized Knowledge Graph construction - Ana Santos-Pereira

13:00 H
Lunch
14:30 H
Round Table + Network Session

Discussing the reality of the corporate world

Silico Life, OmniumAI, Accenture

16:30 H
Ending Session
19:00 H
Informal BBQ Dinner

Industrial, Braga

MARCH 18TH - SATURDAY
09:30 H
Workshops

[1] Introduction to Chemoinformatics using DeepMol

João Capela and João Correia

[2] The importance of machine learning in structural biology -

Irina Moreira, Luana Afonso and Catarina Marques-Pereira

[3] Ontology Matching in the Biomedical Domain

Marta Silva e Patrícia Eugénio

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