Bioinfo4Women - Past events
Thursday, 26 May, 2022
The Bioinfo4Women programme of BSC organises the Women’s Health Awareness Week (WHAW) in the framework of the International Day of Action for Women's Health (28th May)
Thursday, 17 February, 2022
Speakers:
Speaker: Shilpa Garg, Tenure-track assistant professor and NNF Data Science Investigator at the University of Copenhagen
Host: Natasa Przulj, BSC Life Sciences - Leading Researcher - Integrative Computational Network Biology
Host: Natasa Przulj, BSC Life Sciences - Leading Researcher - Integrative Computational Network Biology
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Thursday, 20 January, 2022
Speakers:
Prof. Rachel Lowe, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Host: Alfonso Valencia. BSC Life Sciences Department Director
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Thursday, 28 October, 2021
Speakers:
Speaker: Tuuli Lappalainen, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Director, National Genomics Infrastructure and Genomics Platform, SciLifeLab. Associate Faculty Member, New York Genome Center
Host: Marta Melé, Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics Lab Group Leader
Host: Marta Melé, Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics Lab Group Leader
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Virtual BSC RS/Life Session: Protein structure informs functional mechanisms and the risk of disease
Thursday, 30 September, 2021
Speakers:
Host: Alfonso Valencia, BSC Life Sciences department director
Speaker: Prof. Christine Orengo, Group Leader University College London (UCL) & President of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)
Short Bio: Christine Orengo is a computational biologist, whose core research has been the development of robust algorithms to capture relationships between protein structures, sequences and functions. She has built one of the most comprehensive protein classifications, CATH, used worldwide by tens of thousands of biologists, and central to many pioneering structural and evolutionary studies.
CATH structural and functional data for hundreds of millions of proteins has enabled studies that revealed essential universal proteins and their biological roles, and extended characterisation of biological systems implicated in disease e.g. in cell division, cancer and ageing. CATH functional sites have revealed protein residues implicated in enzyme efficiency and bacterial antibiotic resistance. This data also identified genetic variations likely to be driving human diseases and the drugs that can be repurposed to offset the pathogenic effects.
Christine is President of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Elected member of EMBO since 2014, a Fellow of ISCB since 2016 and a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2019. She is a co-founder of the ELIXIR 3DBioInfo Community in Structural Bioinformatics.
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Virtual BSC RS/Life Session: Using computers to understand how carbohydrates are processed in nature
Thursday, 02 September, 2021
Speakers:
Prof. Carme Rovira, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Thursday, 08 July, 2021
Speakers:
Elva Novoa, Postdoc at Toxalim (Research Centre in Food Toxicology), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, INP-Purpan, UPS, 31300 Toulouse, France and Elena Bernabéu, PhD student at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Thursday, 13 May, 2021
Speakers:
Lynn Kamerlin, Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration
Thursday, 29 April, 2021
Speakers:
Sushmita Roy, Associate Professor at the Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department and a faculty at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Venue:
Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration