PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

DAY 1	Plenary session	Poster session
09:30 - 10:00	Registration with coffee	Mounting of posters
10:00 - 11:00	Keynote talk: Abuse of the mode in genomics and ensemble-based alternative - Charles Lawrence, Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, US
11:00 - 11:20	Combinatorial analysis of perturbational microarray compendia - Steven Maere, Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Genomics, Dept of Plant Systems Biology, VIB / UGent, Belgium
11:20 - 11:40	I/NI-calls for the exclusion of non-informative genes: a highly effective filtering tool for microarray data - Willem Talloen, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Janssen Pharmaceutica n.v., Beerse, Belgium
11:40 - 12:00	Unveiling combinatorial transcriptional regulation in E. coli using microarray and motif compendia - Karen Lemmens, Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT-SCD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch	Poster session Monday
13:30 - 13:50	Exploring metabolic space using bioinformatics - Rainer Breitling, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
13:50 - 14:10	Inference of pathways from metabolic networks by subgraph extraction - Karoline Faust, Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium
14:10 - 14:30	From sequence to network: determinants of combinatorial control in transcription factor networks - A. D. J. van Dijk, Applied Bioinformatics, PRI, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
14:30 - 14:50	A probabilistic database for biological network mining - Luc De Raedt, KULeuven
14:50 - 15:30	Afternoon coffee break	Poster session Monday
15:30 - 15:50	Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion - L.-C. Tranchevent, Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT-SCD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
15:50 - 16:10	Diagnostic method to determine the site of origin of Carcinomas of Unknown Primary - Torik Ayoubi, Genome Center Maastricht, The Netherlands
16:10 - 16:30	Copy-number variation in genomes of laboratory rat strains: distribution, properties and utility for human genetics - Victor Guryev, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
16:30 - 17:30	Keynote talk: Comparative genomics for protein function prediction: higher resolution new data sources and applications to human disease - Martijn Huynen, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
17:30 - 18:30	Cocktail

DAY 2	Plenary session	Poster session
10:00 - 10:20	Quantifying information transfer by globular proteins - Tom Lenaerts, SWITCH Laboratory, VIB / VUB Brussels, Belgium
10:20 - 10:40	Divide, Align and Search for Discovering Conserved Protein Complexes - P. Jancura, VU Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, The Netherlands
10:40 - 11:00	Statistical Modeling of Solexa Data - Helene Thygesen, Leiden University Medical Center, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, The Netherlands
11:00 - 12:00		Poster session Tuesday
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch	Unmounting of posters before 13:00
13:00 - 14:00	Keynote talk: Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks and its influence on shaping genome organization - M. Madan Babu, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
14:00 - 14:20	Whole-genome analysis reveals molecular innovations and evolutionary transitions in chromalveolate species - Cindy Martens, Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB / UGent, Belgium
14:20 - 14:40	MANTiS; a phylogenetic framework for multi-species genome comparisons - Athanasia Tzika, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology & Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
14:40 - 15:00	Exploring the overlapping combinatorial structure of the microRNA coregulation network - Alexandre Irrthum, Bioinformatics and Modeling, GIGA-R, University of Liège, Belgium
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon coffee break
15:30 - 16:30	Keynote talk: The importance of gene and genome duplication for evolution and biological complexity: a case study on plants - Yves Van de Peer, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and University of Gent, Belgium
16:30 - 16:45	Wrap-up and conference closing