Call for contributed talks / Call for participation

You are kindly invited to the first Workshop on **Bioinformatics in Ageing Research** on 4.5./5.5.2010 in Rostock,

Tuesday 16h - Wednesday 19h. Workshop website:

http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/workshop_2010
Flyer: http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/workshop_2010_flyer.pdf

Submissions for contributed talks (15-20 minutes) are most welcome until March 20, 2010. Please send a title and an abstract to bioinfo@med.uni-rostock.de,
and expect a response around April 1. A few travel fellowships may be available;
please indicate if you need partial financial support.

The workshop includes the 'official' inauguration of the restructured and renamed
Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research -- IBIMA in the Department of Medicine, Univ. Rostock.

Registration is simply by email: just send the following information to bioinfo@med.uni-rostock.de.
+ Name and Institution (as it shall appear on the badge)
+ Status: [ ] Academia/Industry, or [ ] Graduate Student, or [ ] Member of an Academic Institution in Rostock ("Rostock Scientist").
+ Whether you plan to attend [ ] Tuesday, [ ] Wednesday, [ ] Both days.
Confirmation will be sent by email within 3 working days.
** You will then be given information about the mode of payment; registration is not completed without payment (Rostock Scientists just need to wait for confirmation of their registration). Do NOT book travel / accomodation without confirmation and payment. **

Registration fee:	Early registration (until April 19): * 0 EUR for Rostock Scientists. * 25 EUR for graduate students. * 50 EUR for academia & industry.
Late registration (after April 19, until April 30):	* For at most 9 Rostock Scientists: 0 EUR. Call 0381 494 7361 (8-11, 12-14h) to reserve your place, on a first-come, first-served basis. * 75 EUR for graduate students. * 150 EUR for academia & industry. Late registration is expensive because the room needs to be selected by size and the food be ordered until April 19 Onsite registration is NOT possible.
Venue:	Yachthafen Hohe Düne, www.hohe-duene.de.
Background:	Evidence is accumulating that the first genuine anti-ageing interventions (e.g. approved pharmaceutical, nutriceutical & stem-cell-based therapies) may become available within the next decade. Model organism data, next-generation sequencing & other advances trigger a need for large-scale data analysis. The workshop convenes leading experts to present the state-of-the art & to talk about upcoming tasks & challenges in the bioinformatics & systems biology of ageing-related data.
Preliminary Program Tuesday May 4
16:00-16:10	Opening
16:10-17:00	Günter Lepperdinger: Age-dependent and age-independent measures of fitness: what to learn from human primary mesenchymal stem cells
17:00-17:30	Alexandra Stolzing: Mesenchymal stem cell heterogeneity and aging
17:30-18:15	James Adjaye: Stem cells, tissue homeostasis and ageing
18:30-19:00	Niels Grabe: A Systems Biological Approach for Researching Stromal Aging
19:00-19:20	Michael Greeff: Semantic text mining in the analysis of neurodegenerative diseases
Wednesday May 5
9:20- 9:30	Announcements
9:30-10:15	Joao Pedro de Magalhaes: Bioinformatics, systems biology and aging: navigating the new oceans of data to discover the Fountain of Youth
10:15-10:45	Julio Vera: Investigating the molecular basis of the Cancer/Aging link through Systems Biology
10:45-11:00	(contributed talk)
11:30-12:15	Almut Nebel/ David Ellinghaus: High-throughput studies and bioinformatic analysis to tackle the genetics of human longevity
12:15-12:45	Axel Kowald: The use of quantitative as well as qualitative models for investigating the aging process
12:45-13:00	(contributed talk)
14:30-15:15	Aubrey de Grey: Design for a knowledge base of causal interactions between aspects of aging and therapies to combat it
15:15-15:45	Georg Fuellen: The human preventome and the need to condense lots of information into simple hypotheses
15:45-16:05	Stefan Schuster: Use of Metabolic Pathway Analysis in Biochemical Research Related to Ageing
16:30-17:15	Anil Wipat: The Centre for the Integrative and Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) and In-silico approaches to ageing research
17:15-17:45	Jürgen Sühnel: JenAge - The Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing
17:45-18:00	(contributed talk)
18:00-19:00	(Panel) Discussion
More information about the speakers:
Dr. James Adjaye	Molecular Embryology and Aging group, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~molemb/ Title: "Stem cells, tissue homeostasis and ageing"
Dr. Georg Fuellen	http://www.ibima.med.uni-rostock.de/ Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research Department of Medicine, Rostock University Title: "The human preventome and the need to condense lots of information into simple hypotheses"
Dr. Niels Grabe	http://tiga.uni-hd.de Hamamatsu TIGA Center (BIOQUANT) and Medical Systems Biology Group Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University Hospital Heidelberg Title: "A Systems Biological Approach for Researching Stromal Aging"
Dr. Michael Greeff	http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/mips/ Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany Title: "Semantic text mining in the analysis of neurodegenerative diseases"
Dr. Aubrey de Grey	http://www.sens.org/ SENS Foundation, UK Title: "Design for a knowledge base of causal interactions between aspects of aging and therapies to combat it"
Dr. Axel Kowald	http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~kowald/ Theoretical Biophysics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Title: "The use of quantitative as well as qualitative models for investigating the aging process."
Dr. Günter Lepperdinger	http://www.iba.oeaw.ac.at/index.php Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Innsbruck, Austria Title: "Age-dependent and age-independent measures of fitness: what to learn from human primary mesenchymal stem cells"
Dr. Joao Pedro de Magalhaes	http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aging/ Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group School of Biological Sciences University of Liverpool, UK Title: "Bioinformatics, systems biology and aging: navigating the new oceans of data to discover the Fountain of Youth"
Dr. Almut Nebel	http://www.zmb.uni-kiel.de/institute/ikmb/nebelkontakt Research Group for Healthy Ageing Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Title: "High-throughput studies and bioinformatic analysis to tackle the genetics of human longevity"
Dr. Stefan Schuster	http://pinguin.biologie.uni-jena.de/bioinformatik/en/ Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Title: "Use of Metabolic Pathway Analysis in Biochemical Research Related to Ageing"
Dr. Alexandra Stolzing	http://www.izi.fraunhofer.de/izi_stammzellbiologie.html?&L=1 Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration Group Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany Title: "Mesenchymal stem cell heterogeneity and aging"
Dr. Jürgen Sühnel	http://www.fli-leibniz.de/groups/suehnel_en.php Research Group Biocomputing Leibniz-Institute for Ageing Research - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI), Jena Title: "JenAge - The Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing"
Dr. Julio Vera	http://www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/people_gonzales.html Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, University of Rostock, Germany Title: "Investigating the molecular basis of the Cancer/Aging link through Systems Biology"
Dr. Anil Wipat	http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/anil.wipat Newcastle Centre for the Integrative and Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK