Program
Location: Campus Grüental, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration; setting up of posters; welcome coffee
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Session 1: Predictive health
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Opening: Sven Hirsch, IAS ZHAW Welcome address: Organisation: Maria Anisimova, IAS ZHAW |
09:15 – 09:45 |
Keynote 1: Clinical relevance of disease management support Philippe Bijlenga, HUG Geneva |
09:45 – 10:00 |
Functionalized Anatomical Models for Personalized Medicine and In Silico Clinical Trials Esra Neufeld, IT’IS Foundation Zurich |
10:00 – 10:15 |
Improving cancer diagnostics with machine learning Maria Gabrani, IBM Research Zürich |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Wearable sensors for body core temperature estimation Krzysztof Kryszczuk, IAS ZHAW |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee break and poster session |
Session 2: Applied Genomics and Omics
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Keynote 2: Integrating genomes via fine-grained orthology Christophe Dessimoz, University of Lausanne, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and University College London |
11:30 – 11:45 |
Systems approaches to unravel molecular cancer complexity María Rodríguez Martínez, IBM Research Zürich |
11:45 – 12:00 |
Genomic characterization of Phytobacter diazotrophicus outbreak Theo Smits, IUNR ZHAW |
12:00 – 12:15 |
The heritability of viral load in HIV patients Venelin Mitov, BSSE ETH Zürich |
12:15 – 13:30 |
Working lunch: poster session and industry exhibition
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Session 3: Computational biotechnology |
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13:30 – 13:55 |
Point-of-care diagnostics and big data: Solving the gap with precision diagnostics Robert Dean Lovchik, IBM Research Zurich |
13:55 – 14:20 |
How to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the development of cell therapeutics Valentin Jossen, ICBT ZHAW |
14:20 – 14:45 |
Process strategies derived from large data-sets routinely collected during industrial bioprocessing Karin Kovar, ICBT ZHAW |
14:45 – 15:30 |
Coffee break and poster session
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Session 4: Predictive systems Chair: Thomas Ott, IAS ZHAW |
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15:30 – 15:45 |
Prediction of natural hazards (avalanches, rock or ice failures, floods) Lorenz Meier, Geopraevent AG |
15:45 – 16:00 |
A glimpse at real-world AI applications Marc Schöni, Microsoft, Zürich |
Session 5: Computational Life Sciences, Skills and Market |
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16:00 – 16:40 |
Flash talks Science for Business: Multiscale modeling for drug delivery Tommaso Casalini, SUPSI Accelerate it: Operation & Business support Ihab Hourani, Axino Solutions Protect it: IP Strategies in a fast moving sector Eugene Blanchard, Gevers Launch it: Comprehensive Forecasting Peter Kauf, Prognosix Do it: Sharing some experiences Leo Keller, Blue Ocean SWS |
16:40 – 17:00 |
Computational Biology in Drug Discovery: An Industrial Perspective Jitao David Zhang, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development |
17:00 – 17:20 |
Trends in the field of life sciences Christian Liebler, KPMG |
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17:20 – 18:30 |
Closing remarks: Sven Hisch, IAS, ZHAW Networking Apéro and Poster Session |