IB2 Research Day 

Location: Solvay Room, 5th floor NO building, Campus de la Plaine, ULB

November 24, 2022 9:30 to 18:00

9:30 welcome & coffee

9:40-10:30 Karine Van Doninck (ULB)

Bdelloid rotifers, an extremophile model system in evolutionary biology and space research

10:30-11:00 Sofia Papadimitriou (ULB)

The importance of good data quality for the development of predictive tools in the medical field: the case of oligogenic diseases

11:00-11:15 coffee (Solvay room)

11:15-12:15 Student talks

12:15-13:30 Lunch and Poster session  @IB2

13:30-14:20 Maxime Tarabichi (ULB)

Inferring and characterising past and ongoing tumour evolution

14:20-14:40 Student talks

14:40-15:00 Coffee break (Solvay room)

15:00-15:40 Student talks

15:40-16:30 Charles Van der Henst (VUB)

Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in the WHO priority pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

16:30-18:00 Poster session & Drink & Poster prize @IB2
Student talks 

Robin Grolaux (ULB) – Variation in DNA methylation in neurodevelopmental disorders

Joel Roca Martinez (VUB) – Deciphering the RRM-RNA recognition code

Antoine Passemiers (KUL) – Precision matrices for scalable inference of Gene Regulatory Networks

Macarena Pozo-Morales (ULB) – Ferroptosis kills during starvation

Bartosz Prokop (KUL) – Inferring biological oscillator models from data

Nassim Versbraegen (ULB) – A bottom-up approach to oligogenic diseases

Posters

We encourage anyone participating to this meeting to present a poster. We also encourage you to be creative, screens & black boards will be available at IB2 is you want to present your work with another support than a classical poster. Of course, regular posters are also most welcome! Voting bulletins will be available to select your favorite poster/creative presentation and a prize will be awarded at the end of the drink!

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/tWjehRYdzc