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Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics
in Medicine and Ageing Research

Workshop on
Bioinformatics
in Ageing Research

4./5.May 2010
Yachthafen Hohe Düne, Rostock

Sponsors


The workshop is kindly sponsored by Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis, and supported by the Department of
Medicine and the Department of Aging Science and Humanities, Univ. Rostock.

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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