EIT ICT Labs Health Retreat — Program
Speakers in Computational Biology (confirmed)
- Frédéric Cazals, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Samuel Kaski, Aalto University School of Science, Finland
- Samuel Myllykangas, Stanford University, USA
- Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Matej Orešič, VTT, Finland
Speakers in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (confirmed)
- Rebecca Maaranto, Director, Life Sciences, Licentia Ltd, Finland
- Antti Paasio, University of Turku, Finland
- Pasi Malinen, University of Turku, Finland
Program
The EIT ICT Labs Health Retreat on computational biology takes place between June 6, 2011 (Monday) and June 10, 2011 (Friday). A detailed schedule is found below after the table. It is highly recommended that the participants arrive in Helsinki on Sunday, accomodation on site is available.
Schedule
The following table outlines the schedules during the week. Wednesday afternoon will be devoted to Entrepreneurship and Innovation topics, in joint lectures with EIT ICT Labs Cloud Computing Summer School.
| time/day | Monday, 6th of June | Tuesday, 7th of June | Wednesday, 8th of June | Thursday, 9th of June | Friday, 10th of June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 | 7:00-9:00 breakfast | 7:00-9:00 breakfast | 7:00-9:00 breakfast | 7:00-9:00 breakfast | 7:00-9:00 breakfast |
| 08:00 | |||||
| 09:00 | 9:00-12:00 lectures and discussion, one coffee break | 9:00-12:00 lectures and discussion, one coffee break | 9:00-12:00 lectures and discussion, one coffee break | 9:00-12:00 group work, one coffee break | 9:00-12:00 group work, one coffee break |
| 10:00 | |||||
| 11:00 | |||||
| 12:00 | 12:00-13:30 lunch | 12:00-13:30 lunch | 12:00-13:30 lunch | 12:00-13:30 lunch | 12:00-13:30 lunch |
| 13:30 | 13:30-15:00 lectures | 13:30-15:00 lectures | 13:30-15:00 lectures | 13:30-15:00 group work | 13:30-15:00 group work presented |
| 14:00 | |||||
| 15:00 | 15:00-15:30 coffee break | 15:00-15:30 coffee break | 15:00-15:30 coffee break | 15:00-15:30 coffee break | 15:00-15:30 coffee break |
| 15:30 | 15:30-18:00 presentations and poster session | 15:30-18:00 identification of group work topics | 15:30-18:00 lectures and discussion | 15:30-18:00 flash presentations, group work continues | 15:30 closing of the retreat and goodbyes |
| 17:00 | |||||
| 18:00 | |||||
| evening | recreational program at the location | BBQ party at the location at 19:30 | boat excursion | nothing |
Talks on Monday
- Matej Orešič: Discovery of biomarkers and control-points of complex mechanisms related to health and disease (morning session)
- Samuel Kaski: Integration, retrieval and translation of biodata (afternoon session)
Talks on Tuesday
- Jeroen de Ridder: Scale-space analysis for dissecting cancer genes and pathways (morning session)
- Samuel Myllykangas: Methodological advances in DNA sequencing technology (afternoon session)
Talks on Wednesday
- Frederic Cazals: Geometric and topological modelling in structural biology (morning session)