Ascona Workshop 2013

Statistical Genomics and Data Integration for Personalized Medicine

Scope

Advances in biotechnology have made genome-scale measurements routine. A significant challenge now is to use the vast amount of data generated from these technologies to improve human health. Medicine and drug development has moved from a `one-drug-for-all’ paradigm to more individualized treatment. Personalized medicine is a rapidly developing discipline that aims to improve health outcomes based on highly refined characteristics of  individual patients, such as serum biomarkers, genotype, gene expression pattern, and imaging.

This interdisciplinary workshop is intended to be a forum for (i) the dissemination of cutting-edge biotechnological and methodological developments and (ii) the identification of open data analysis problems. Targeted areas for the workshop include: novel clinical trial designs for personalized medicine; statistical and machine learning methods for identifying reproducible biomarkers and genomic signatures, and for risk and outcome prediction; new strategies for analysis and integration of heterogeneous, high-dimensional data types (e.g., microarray, genotype, imaging and sequence data); applications to disease prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy, especially in cancer and infectious diseases (e.g., HIV, HCV); and advances in statistical computing for these problems.

Date

May 12 to 17, 2013

Location

Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland

Confirmed keynote speakers

• Keith Baggerly, MD Anderson
• Eytan Domany, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Victor DeGruttola, Harvard SPH
• Cecile Janssens, Emory University
• Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
• Chris Sander, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Rainer Spang, University of Regensburg
• Terry Speed, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Biomedical Research
• Simon Tavare, Cancer Research UK

Important dates

2012 Oct 16 - Preregistration opens
2013 Jan 15 - Preregistration closes
2013 Feb 8 - Registration opens
2013 Mar 31 - Registration closes (payment due)
2013 May 12 - Workshop begins

Travel

Travel directions to the Centro Stefano Franscini at Monte Verita (Ascona) can be found here: http://www.csf.ethz.ch/travel/.

On Sunday, May 12, shuttle buses will run from Locarno train station to Monte Verita (some with an intermediate stop at Hotel Luna) at 15.20, 16.00, 16.40, 17.20, 18.05, and 19.05. For further details, see page ii (4) of the abstract book below.

Workshop program

Abstract book

Organizing committee

Niko Beerenwinkel, Darlene Goldstein, Peter Bühlmann

Contact

ascona2013@bsse.ethz.ch

Sponsoring

• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Centro Stefano Franscini
• SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• Roche, Novartis, and Merck Serono (through the Contact Group for Research Matters)