Monday November 19, 2018
| 12:00-12:30 | Arrival and welcome coffee |
| 12:30-12:40 | Welcome: Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPF Lausanne) and Carolin von Schoultz (LS2) |
| 12:40-16:15 | Session I: Physical models and emergent properties in biological systems |
| 12:40-13:15 |
Beat Fierz (EPF Lausanne): "Probing dynamic chromatin organization on the single-molecule scale" |
| 13:15-13:50 |
Attila Becskei (University of Basel): “The control of stochastic gene choice during neuronal differentiation” |
| 13:50-14:00 | Poster presentation 1: Jan Burri (ETH Zurich) |
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“How pollen tubes perceive and overcome obstacles" |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30-14:40 | Poster presentation 2: Aarti Krishnan (University of Geneva) |
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“Metabolic modeling of Toxoplasma gondii: toward stage-specific networks” |
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| 14:40-15:15 |
Niko Beerenwinkel (ETH Zurich): “Learning tumor phylogenies from single-cell data” |
| 15:15-15:50 |
Michel Milinkovitch (University of Geneva): "Patterning of the vertebrate skin through mechanical and Turing instabilities" |
| 15:50-16:15 |
Poster flashlight presentations |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Coffee break |
| 16:45-17:45 |
Keynote lecture: Johan Elf, University of Uppsala (Sweden) |
| 17:45-19:00 | Break |
| 19:00-21:30 |
Dinner |
| 21:00-23:00 | Poster session and drinks |
Tuesday November 20, 2018
| 09:00-12:10 | Session II: AI/Machine learning in biology |
| 09:00-09:35 |
Manfred Claassen (ETH Zurich): “(Un-)supervised learning of cell population structure from single-cell snapshot data” |
| 09:35-10:10 |
Enkelejda Miho (FHNW Muttenz): “Artificial intelligence uncovers signatures of antibodies” |
| 10:10-10:20 | Poster presentation 3: Marc-Antoine Jacques (University of Bern) |
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"Machine learning-based mining of ERK and AKT biosensor time-series reveals new signatures of oncogenic signaling" |
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| 10:20-10:50 |
Coffee break |
| 10:50-11:00 | Poster presentation 4: Bruno Correia (EPF Lausanne) |
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“Molecular deep learning on protein surfaces for functional prediction and de novo design” |
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| 11:00-11:35 |
María Rodríguez-Martínez (IBM Research, Zurich): "Characterizing tumor heterogeneity with single cell proteomics" |
| 11:35-12:10 |
Michael Stadler (FMI Basel): “Mammalian chromatin remodelers selectively mediate transcription factor binding” |
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12:10-13:15 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:15-16:45 | Session III: Systems biomedicine |
| 13:15-13:50 |
Paola Picotti (ETH Zurich): “Probing protein structural changes on a proteome-wide scale” |
| 13:50-14:25 |
Patrick Matthias (FMI Basel): “Towards a mechanistic and quantitative framework for virus uncoating” |
| 14:25-14:35 | Poster presentation 5: Vito Zanotelli (University of Zurich) |
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“Investigating microenvironment-to-cell signaling in 3D spheroids through imaging mass cytometry” |
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| 14:35-15:05 |
Coffee break |
| 15:05-15:15 | Poster presentation 6: Andreas Moor (University of Zurich and Weizmann Institute of Science) |
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"Spatial reconstruction of single enterocytes uncovers broad zonation along the intestinal villus axis" |
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| 15:15-15:50 |
Uwe Sauer (ETH Zurich): "Metabolic coordination through metabolite-protein interactions" |
| 15:50-16:25 |
Bart Deplancke (EPF Lausanne): "The genetic and molecular determinants of circadian variation in Drosophila melanogaster" |
| 16:25-16:45 | Closing remarks: Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPF Lausanne) and Attila Becskei (University of Basel) |
