Oct 20, 2017
Organizers
Prof. Seán I. O’Donoghue is a Laboratory Head at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Chief Research Scientist in Australia’s CSIRO, and Conjoint Professor in UNSW Sydney. He has created numerous award-winning bioinformatics resources demonstrating the benefits of data visualization in the life sciences.
Prof. Masakazu Sekijima is an Associate Professor and Unit Leader at Advanced Computational Drug Discovery Unit of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He carries out research in bioinformatics, mainly in the computer science field.
Dr Marc Baaden is Director of Research at CNRS and heads the UPR9080 research unit. He is internationally recognized for research characterizing membrane proteins via high-performance computing, comprising the development of novel bioinformatics methods and approaches offered to the scientific community.
Co-organizers
Dr Matthieu Chavant is a CNRS researcher at the IPBS institute in Toulouse. He has worked on GPU computing for modelling and visualization of huge molecular systems, and also NMR/multiscale modeling experiments to understand lipids and membrane protein interactions.
Dr J.B. Brown is a Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, and also an Independent Researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Biosciences. He studies pharmacogenomics, life-science informatics, biological networks, machine learning, software and data visualization.
Dr Andrea Schafferhans is a Lecturer for Chemistry at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf and also an Independent Researcher in the Computational Biology group of Burkhard Rost at Technical University Munich. She strives to help non-experts to make use of protein structure data.