13th Portugaliae Genetica2010/3/18 - 2010/3/19
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March 18th (Thursday) |
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09:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Dan Graur
"Overlappingenes: using evolutionary principles to distinguish real from spurious reading frames"
Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, USA |
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10:30 |
Coffee-break |
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11:00 |
Rita Quental
"Functional diversification after gene duplication: the PMM1 and PMM2 case"
IPATIMUP, Portugal |
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11:30 |
Conceição Bettencourt
"Sequence Analysis of 5' Regulatory Regions of Machado-Joseph Disease Gene (ATXN3) in Patients and Controls"
Center of Research in Natural Resourcs (CIRN) and Department of Biology, University of the Azores, Portugal |
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12:00 |
Miguel Fonseca
"A new method for detection of compositional strand asymmetries in vertebrate mitochondrial genomes"
CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
Gertraud Burger
"Unorthodox mitochondrial genomes"
Department of Biochemestry, University of Montreal, Canada |
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15:30 |
Franz Lang
"Eukaryotic evolution - a comparative mitochondrial-nuclear genome perspective"
Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Canada |
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16:30 |
Coffee-break |
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17:00 |
Sponsor presentation |
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17:30 |
Poster session |
"Genome Anatomy"
Organizing Committee:
Ana Goios
Filipe Pereira
Rune Matthiesen
Contact:
portgen2010@ipatimup.pt
Program
March 19th (Friday) |
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9:30 |
Michael Cummings
"Quantifying lineage divergence across the genome: the 'genealogical sorting index'"
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, USA |
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10:30 |
Coffee-break |
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11:00 |
Inês Soares
"Circumventing sequence alignment: Proportion of string lengh or vectorization identity as proxies for genetic similarity"
IPATIMUP, Portugal |
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11:30 |
Jorge Vieira
"Identifying exclusive patterns in unaligned sets of sequences"
Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular (IBMC), Portugal |
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12:00 |
Pedro Albuquerque
"In silico workflow for the selection of bacterial taxa-specific diagnostic markers"
Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular (IBMC), Portugal |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
Susana Vinga
"New applications of alignment-free methods for biological sequence analysis and comparison"
Knowledge Discovery and Bioinformatics (KDBIO) group, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal |
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15:30 |
Bernhard Haubold
"Efficient estimation of pairwise genome distances"
Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany |
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16:30 |
Coffee-break |
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17:00 |
Sponsor presentation |
Registration Fees (Deadline March 5, 2010)
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Trainees
IPATIMUP/IBMC/INEB personnel |
€40 |
The registation fee includes: lunch,coffee break and Park.
Places will be alocated on a first come, first served basis
Instructions for Abstract Submission
One page with the following fields:
1. Title
2. Authors and affiliations
3. Text
A maximum of six abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Presenting author has to be registered.
Abstracts should be sent to: portgen2010@ipatimup.pt
Deadline for abstract submission EXTENDED: February 28, 2010
Sponsors
