Day 1: Monday 10 March

Frontier science presentations

• ELIXIR speaker: Developing and using software in industry (R. Gentleman, Genentech)
• INSTRUCT speaker: Immunoinformatics applications to biomedical problems (A. Tramontano, University of Rome)
• EU-OPENSCREEN speaker: Validating drug targets using open access chemical probes (S. Knapp, University of Oxford)
• Euro-BioImaging speaker: Preclinical intravital microscopy in cancer and immunotherapy (P. Friedl, Radboud University Nijmegen/Anderson Cancer Center, Houston)
• EMBRC speaker: EMBRC, a new paradigm for marine model organisms (C. Boyen, Station Biologique de Roscoff)
• INFRAFRONTIER speaker: Type II diabetes: subphenotypes in humans define key mechanistic questions for mouse models (H. Haering, University of Tübingen)
• ECRIN speaker: Electronic health records for clinical research (EHR4CR) (D. Kalra, UCL/EHR4CR)
• EATRIS speaker: Individualized medicine in cancer and beyond (O. Kallioniemi, FIMM)
• BBMRI speaker: Science and the Global Challenges of Chronic Disease (P. Boyle, International Prevention Research Institute IPRI)
• ERINHA: An arena for infectious disease research (T. Brooks, Public Health England)
• Human Brain Project: Medical Informatics: opportunities for interaction  (R. Frackowiak, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

 

Day 2: Tuesday 11 March

The science of BioMedBridges

• Research Infrastructures from FP7 to Horizon 2020 (L. Saracco, European Commission)
• Welcome and overview of BioMedBridges goals (J. Thornton, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• Using standards in Real Life (H. Parkinson, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• Building technical bridges to connect and accelerate biomedical discoveries (E. Birney, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• Regulations, privacy and security (C. Ohmann, U. Duesseldorf/ECRIN)
• Use case: Personalised medicine (I. Vastrik, FIMM/EATRIS)
• Use case: Interoperability of large-scale image data sets from different biological scales (J. Ellenberg, EMBL/EURO-BIOIMAGING)
• Use case: Crossing the species bridge between mouse and human (M. Hrabé de Angelis, Helmholtz-Zentrum Munich/INFRAFRONTIER)
• Use case: From cells to molecules - integrating structural data (D. Stuart, University of Oxford/INSTRUCT)
• Use case: Integrating disease related data and terminology (S. Brunak, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis/DTU-Systems Biology/ELIXIR) 
• Training: Completing the circle between developers and users (C. Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• BMB Ethical Governance Framework (C. Smee, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
• Conclusions and discussion (J. Thornton, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)

 

Posters 

• BMB Legal & Ethical Assessment Tool (Helbing, K., Sarlyar, M., TMF)
• Sharing and integrating medical imaging data. (E. Vast, S. Klein, Erasmus MC) 
• Shape matching service for structural biology (SMASB) (A. P. Joseph et al., STFC)
• NMR crystallography made crystal clear (A. Bhaumik et al., University of Florence) 
• A prototype linking ICD10/SNOMED CT concepts to Ensembl gene identifiers (S. Brunak, University of Copenhagen)
• A new biobank based method for stratification of patients and study participants  (S. Brunak, University of Copenhagen)
•  Tools and Data Services Registry (J. Ison, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR; K. Rapacki,  Technical University of Denmark)
• EDAM - Ontology for Bioinformatics & Biomedical Tools and Data (J. Ison, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR;  M. Kalas, University of Bergen) 
• ESFRI BMS Standards Description; Harmonization and Use case: PhenoBridge - crossing the species bridge between mouse and human (N. Conte et al., EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR) 
• Interoperability of Large-Scale Image Data Sets (G. Rustici et al., EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• Training (T. Hancocks, EMBL-EBI/ELIXIR)
• BBMRI-ERIC (R. Bild, IMSE Technical University Munich) 
• EMBRC (C. Boyen, Station Biologique de Roscoff)