Workshop Personalized Medicine and Bioinformatics

Datum: 16.11.2016
Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 18:00
Ort: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Luisenstr. 58/59, 10117 Berlin
Raum: Raum Bernhard von Langenbeck

In the last years, sequencing and high-throughput „omics“ technologies have become very fast and cost-efficient, thanks to enormous technological advances. As a consequence, large amounts of data on individuals can be generated making the vision of a personalized medicine realistic. This new interface between bioinformatics and big data introduces significant challenges to the bioinformatics community: How to translate the data into useful information about the individual patient? How can algorithms, machine learning methods or statistical analysis help getting new insights into individual predisposition, more efficient diagnostics and options for a personalized therapy? The workshop Bioinformatics and personalized medicine will bring together experts from the fields of bioinformatics and personalized medicine to address these questions.

14:00 Welcome address, Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

14:10 Analyzing large medical data-sets - can networks help us?, Tim Conrad, Medical Bioinformatics Group, Freie Universität Berlin

14:40 Precision Genomics with Ion Torrent, Xosé Fernàndez, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Thermo Fischer, Scientific Inc., Paisley

15:10 The 100,000 genomes project, Timothy Hubbard, Genome Analysis, Genomics England and Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s College London

15:50 Coffee break

16:20 From Biomarkers to diagnostic PCR assays: Techniques from machine learning and quantum physics, Jim Kallarackal, CEO, OakLabs GmbH, Hennigsdorf

16:50 Image analysis of patients with dysmorphic facial features boosts diagnostic yield in exome studies, Peter Krawitz, Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

17:20 Mathematical Modeling of Drug Response for Personalized Medicine, Christoph Wierling, Head of Bioinformatics, Alacris Theranostics GmbH, Berlin

17:50 Final remarks, Léna Prochnow, Cluster HealthCapital, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie

18:00 Reception