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26 June, 2007
Opening Session

Ferran Sanz – GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Hans Åhlfeldt – Linköping University, Sweden.
Joël Bacquet - European Commission DG INFSO, Brussels, Belgium.

Session A: Systems Biology Insight into Human Disease and Treatment

Marta Cascante - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Fragilities in a Robustly Specialized Metabolism Could Become New Targets for Novel Designed Therapies

Ricard V. Solé - GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Cancer Dynamics: from Stem Cells to Error Catastrophes

Fernando Martín Sanchez - Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Biomedical Informatics and Convergent Technologies (NBIC): Interactions in Pursuit of Better Healthcare

Kevin Robertson - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Transforming Pathway Biology into Pathway Medicine

Baldo Oliva - GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Protein-Protein Interactions Reveal Molecular Details of Proteins and Provide Biological Insights


Session B: Biocomputation and Knowledge Management in Drug Discovery and Development


Martin Stahl - F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Tools and Methods of Proven Value in Molecular Design


Tudor I. Oprea - University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Alburquerque, New Mexico, USA.
From Digital to Experimental Bioactivity


Gerhard F. Ecker - University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Predicting Ligands for ABC-transporter – Structure-based vs. Ligand-based Approaches

Manuel Pastor - GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
How useful are the Results of Computational Chemistry Methods in Drug Discovery?


Session C : Data and Knowledge Mining in Biomedical Research


Anthony J. Brookes - University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
New Developments in Genotype-To-Phenotype Databasing


Alfonso Valencia - CNIO, Madrid, Spain.
Computational Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Information


Jordi Mestres - GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Knowledge-Based Approaches to Pharmacological Profiling


Patrick Ruch - Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
Automatic Annotation of Pathological Functions in UniProt


Dietrich Rebholz-Schumann - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Streaming Facts from Scientific Publications to the Scientist


Session D : Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Research


Alex Frangi - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
An Integrative Approach to Cerebral Aneurysms Disease Management: the @neurIST Project

Peter J. Bond - University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane Proteins

Amin Rostami – Hodjegan - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Modelling ADME in Drug Development and Linking in vitro Data to in vivo Outcome: Integrating Known-knowns to Assess Impact of Known-unknowns

Gianni de Fabritiis - GRIB, IMIM/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
PS3GRID.NET: A Distributed Computing Environment for Molecular Simulations on the PlayStation3


27 June, 2007
Session E : Standards and Ontologies in Biomedical Informatics

Gunnar Klein -
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Standards and Ontologies in Biomedical Informatics

Dipak Kalra - University College London, London, UK.
Advancing the Realisation of EHR Interoperability

Susanna-Assunta Sansone - The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Reporting Standards for Omics Data – An Overview

Arne Kverneland - National Board of Health, Denmark.
SNOMED CT– New International Governance – New Possibilities?

Miguel García - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Using Ontologies in Clinico-Genomic Applications. The INFOBIOMED and ACGT Experiences


Session F : Case Studies of Biomedical Informatics Applications


Jose Luis Oliveira - Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
On the Integration of Biomedical Databases: A Naive Approach

Francesca Incardona - Informa Srl, Rome, Italy.
Multiple Modelling Techniques

Dimitris Kafetzopoulos - FORTH-ICS/ Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Protein Profiling and Diagnosis with Lab-on-Chip and Proteomics Technology: The LOCCANDIA. Integrated Clinico-Proteomics Environment

Bruno G. Loos - University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Biomedical Informatics in Chronic Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Research: Periodontitis as a Model

Inge Bernstein - Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
INFOBIOMED: the Danish Pilot – Genomics and Colon Cancer

George Potamias - FORTH-ICS/ Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Cancer, Clinico-Genomics and Biomedical Informatics: The ACGT Approach

Magi Lluch - MicroArt, Barcelona, Spain.
HealthAgents: Distributed Decision Support System for Brain Tumour Diagnosis and Prognosis using Agent Technology

Vassilis Moustakis - FORTH-ICS/ Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Excellence in Biomedical Informatics Development and Implementation.