Connectionists: Fw: 2020 IEEE BIBM-LncRNA Workshop -- few days away; Fellowships still available

[Donald Adjeroh]

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The program for the 2020 IEEE BIBM LncRNA Workshop is now available.

Please check the workshop webpage at:

http://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2020/

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Highlights:

Keynotes from two respected researchers on LncRNAs:

  *   John Rinn<https://www.lncrna.io/>, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado


  *   Rory Johnson<https://www.gold-lab.org/>, University of Bern, Switzerland


One Special Invited Speaker :
Kaifu Chen<https://openwetware.org/wiki/Chenlab>, Harvard Medical School


One "round-table" panel of experts in the field

Presentation of accepted papers

Complementary registration for one student author for each accepted paper !

Limited Workshop Fellowships still available !!


More details below ....


IEEE BIBM 2020 Workshop on Long Non-Coding RNAs: Mechanism, Function, and Computational Analysis (BIBM-LncRNA)  to be held  in conjunction with the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2020), Dec. 16 - 19, 2020  (to be held online/virtual).

BIBM-LncRNA: http://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2020/

IEEE BIBM 2020: http://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2020/index.html



The recent application of high throughput technologies to transcriptomics has changed our view of gene regulation and function. The discovery of extensive transcription of large RNA transcripts, termed long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), provide an important and new perspective on the centrality of RNA in gene regulation. LncRNAs are involved in various biological and cellular processes, such as genetic imprinting, chromatin remodeling, gene regulation and embryonic development. LncRNAs have been implicated in several chronic diseases, such as cancers, and heart disease, etc. Given the abundance of lncRNAs, tens of thousands still need to be functionally characterized. Various types of genomic data on lncRNAs are currently available, including sequences, secondary/tertiary structures, transcriptome data, and their interactions with related proteins or genes. The key challenge is how to integrate data from myriad sources to determine the functions and the regulatory mechanism of these ubiquitous lncRNAs. Computational studies of lncRNA secondary, tertiary structure, and lncRNA interactions with other molecules are in their infancy, and more work is still needed.


Research topics:
The potential topics include, but not limited to, the following:

ncRNA detection and biomarker discovery
CLIP-Seq and RIP-Seq data analysis
Prediction of physical binding between lncRNA and DNA, RNA and protein.
Understanding the interaction between lncRNA, miRNA and mRNA
Function Prediction for lncRNAs
Deep learning approaches to lncRNA/RNA binding protein prediction
Computational approaches to analyzing lncRNA
lncRNA 3D secondary structures
lncRNA-protein interactions
lncRNA in epigenetic regulation
lncRNA associated diseases network
lncRNAs in plant genomics
lncRNAs in phenotype-genotype problems
CRISPR/Cas9 and Genome editing in lncRNAs


Workshop Fellowships:
Funds are available for limited fellowships to support the participation of students, postdocs, and of researchers from underrepresented minority groups in the workshop.  Please apply by Dec. 9, 2020.


Important Dates:

Dec. 9, 2020:  Deadline for application for workshop fellowship.
Dec. 16, 2020 (9am - 6pm, Seoul, South Korean Time):  LncRNA Workshop (Online/Virtual)
(i.e., Dec. 15, 7pm - Dec. 16, 4am, New York Time)

Dec 16-19, 2020, (Seoul, South Korean Time): BIBM Conference (Online/Virtual)


BIBM-LncRNA Workshop home page:
http://community.wvu.edu/~daadjeroh/workshops/LNCRNA2020/


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