This is the site for the 2017 RNA Informatics Workshop
Thank you to everyone for participating and making it a successful meeting!
Date: June 28, 2017
Schedule
| 08:50 to 9:20 | Arrival | ||
| 9:20 to 9:30 | Opening remarks | ||
| 9:30 to 10:45 | Principal investigators present their main research interests (5 min + 10 min discussion/questions) | ||
| 09:30 | Jérôme Waldispühl | McGill | |
| 09:45 | Yann Ponty | Polytechnique | |
| 10:00 | Mireille Régnier | Polytechnique | |
| 10:15 | Éric Lécuyer | IRCM (Institut de recherches liniques de Montreal) | |
| 10:30 | Nicolas Moitessier | McGill | |
| 10:45 | Mathieu Blanchette | McGill | |
| 15 min break | |||
| 11:15 to 12:35 | Students present an overview of their research (5 min + 3 min discussion/questions) | ||
| 11:15:00 | Philip Bouvrette | Lécuyer, IRCM | RNA localization |
| 11:23 | Juan-Carlos Padilla | Lécuyer, IRCM | Defining the Mechanisms of RNA Targeting to Extracellular Vesicles |
| 11:31 | Mansha Imtiyaz | Blanchette | Prediction of subcellular mRNA localization |
| 11:39 | Juraj Michalik | Ponty | Non-redudant sampling for locally optimal RNA structures |
| 10 min break | |||
| 11:59 | Roman Sarrazin Gendron | Waldispühl, McGill | Using graphical models to predict RNA 3D-structure and ligand-binding from sequence |
| 12:07 | Carlos G Oliver | Waldispühl, McGill | Evolution of complexity in RNA and RNA-ligand binding prediction |
| 12:15 | Jiaying Luo | Moitessier, McGill | RNA binding motifs in riboswitches with known 3D structure. |
| 12:23 | Wanlei Wei | Moitessier, McGill | Docking of Small Molecules against Nucleic Acid Targets. |
| 12:30 to 1:10 | Lunch break. Food will be provided | ||
| 1:15 to 3:00 | Remaining student presentations | ||
| 01:10 | Antoine Soulé | Waldispühl, McGill | caRNAval |
| 01:18 | Pouriya Alikhani | Waldispühl, McGill | caRNAval |
| 01:26 | Jeffrey Hyacinthe | Moitessier, McGill | caRNAval |
| 01:34 | Xiang Chen Zhu | Moitessier, McGill | caRNAval |
| 01:42 | Amir Kadivar | Blanchette, McGill | Fast read-to-read alignment |
| 01:50 | Faizy Ahsan | Blanchette, McGill | Prediction of cell-type specific regulation from multi-species comparison |
| 15 min break | |||
| 02:13 | Christopher Cameron | Blanchette, McGill | High-Resolution estimation for true DNA-DNA interaction frequency from Hi-C data |
| 02:21 | Jeremy Georges-Filteau | Blanchette, McGill | Prediction of sample origin (phylogenetics networks) |
| 02:29 | Ali Atiia | Waldispühl, McGill | Biological networks |
| 02:37 | Corbin Hopper | Waldispühl, McGill | Biological networks as graphs |
| 02:45 | Akash Singh | Waldispühl, McGill | Phylo : mobile application |
| 02:53 | Eric Zhang | Waldispühl, McGill | 3D genome browser |
| 03:00 | Closing remarks |