Symposium

The Brave New World of Smart Data & Semantics in the Life Sciences

24 januari 2019

Registration is free, including lunch and drinks

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Location: Orion Building, Lecture Room C2035

9:00 – Registration, Coffee available,

9:30 – Welcome – Vitor Martins dos Santos

9:40 – Peter Schaap, SSB, WUR “The Brave New World of Semantics and Smart Data in the Microbial Life Sciences” download slides

10:15 – Thijs Ettema, MIB, WUR “Metagenomics-informed insights into the origin of complex cellular life”  —-Cancelled

10:55- Coffee

11:20 – Bedir Tekinerdogan, INF, WUR; “Systems Thinking and Data Science for the Life Sciences”

12:00 – Alexander Goesmann, Giessen University “Software tools for large-scale microbial bioinformatics and current demands for semantic technologies”

12:40 – Lunch

13:30 – Nikos Kyrpides, DOE, San Francisco, USA “Microbiome Research: from Products to Data” download slides

14:15 – Kathy Wolstencroft, Leiden University, “Semantics as an Enabler of Data Integration and Analysis”

14:50 – Coffee

15:15 – Jeroen Raes, University of Leuven “Metagenomics”, TBC

15:50 – Eugene Koonin, NIH, Maryland, USA “CRISPR-Cas systems: exploiting genomic context to infer novel functions” download slides

16:30 – Wrap Up

16:35 – Networking, drinks and bytes