Call for participation of young investigators (closed)

We expect young investigators from Korea, China, Japan, and other East Asian countries to attend this symposium.
There is no clear definition about "young investigator". Graduate students, post-docs, junior faculties are our main expectations. However, if you think you are young, it is OK!
There is no registration fee for this symposium.
Participants should cover one's travel expense (air flights, trains, bus, etc.) between one's place and meeting venue, namely, OIST Sea Side House.
Organizing committee will provide free two-night stay (Aug 10-11) at OIST Sea Side House for all young investigators who will attend this symposium. This includes free meals as follows: dinner on Aug 10, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Aug 11, and breakfast and lunch on Aug 12.
There is no registration fee for this symposium. Organizing committee will provide free two-night stay (Aug 10-11) at OIST Sea Side House for all young investigators who will attend this symposium.
All young investigators are expected to present posters.
Organizing committee will choose some young investigators to give short oral talks during this symposium.
All talks and discussions will be in English.

How to apply to this symposium

Young investigators in China should contact Dr. Xie Lu (xielu@scbit.org) at SCBIT.
Young investigators in Korea should contact Dr. Hwang Seungwoo (swhwang@kribb.re.kr) at KOBIC.
Young investigators in Japan and other East Asian countries should contact Dr. Saitou Naruya (saitounr@nig.ac.jp) at NIG.
Around 10 young investigators from each country will be able to attend this symposium.

List of invited speakers

Akashi Hiroshi	Professor, Division of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Inferring ancestral DNA sequences under non-stationary models: Methodology and applications
Chen Runsheng	Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Noncoding sequence and precision medicine
Gojobori Takashi	Distinguished Professor, Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Project Professor, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Comparative metagenomics: diversities of marine microorganisms between Japan and Saudi Arabia
Ikeo Kazuho	Associate Professor, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Platform for drug discovery from genome sequence to protein structure
Inoue Ituro	Professor, Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Is "thrifty genotype hypothesis" by Neel still valid?
Kim Jaebum	Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Korea	Ancestral genome reconstruction
Kim Ryan Woonbong	Director, Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), Korea	Building infrastructure for Korean bioresource information management and cloud-based omics data analysis platform
Kim Sangsoo	Professor, Soongsil University, Korea	Predicting the splicing quantitative trait loci
Kim Sanguk	Professor, Pohang University of Sciecen and Technology (POSTECH), Korea	Network analysis to understand the process of metazoan evolution
Li Yixue	Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Data mining: driven by functional studies for biology
Nakamura Yasukazu	Professor, Genome Informatics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Towards better genome annotation
Saitou Naruya	Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Diversity of conserved noncoding sequence evolution among eukaryotes
Satoh Noriyuki	Professor, Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan	Horitzontal gene transfer, when and how: a case study of tunicates
Oleg Simakov	Molecular Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan	Dynamics of genome architecture evolution across metazoans
Robert Sinclair	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan	This is not relevant
Xie Lu	Professor and Vice Director, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology (SCBIT), China	Identification of protein variants influencing protein abundance levels in breast cancer
Zhao Guoping	Professor, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Big BioData vs Small BioCuration

List of selected young speakers

Kim DongHyo	Graduate student, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea	The change of Genotype-Phenotype relationship can be explained by rewiring of functional module
Kimura Ryosuke	Associate Professor, The University of Ryukyu Medical School, Okinawa, Japan	A search for genetic variants associated with 3D facial morphology in Japanese
Li Ying	Associate Professor, Jilin University, Jilin, China	Multi-scale RNA comparison
Park Young Chan	Graduate student, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea	Structural variants from whole genome sequencing of Korean population
Seo Ji Eun	Graduate student, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea	Targeted sequencing using pooled DNA samples to maximize variant discovery power for alzheimer disease susceptibility prediction
Shi Yi	Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China	The building blocks of the genome 3D structure
Urbanczyk Henryk	Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan	Systematics of "Harveyi clade" bacteria (family Vibrionaceae), using evolutionary bioinformatics
Wang Zhen	Assistant Professor, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China	Whole genome sequencing of six dog breeds from continuous altitudes reveals adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia

List of poster presenters

Poster 01: Cho Kwang Hoon	Researcher, Korean Bioinformation Center, Korea	Non-tuberculous mycobacteria classification system based on multiple marker genes
Poster 02: Eun Seok Chan	Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Korea	Business Insight on Bioinformatics
Poster 03: Kawashima Kent Diel	Graduate student, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies) / National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Simulating pathogen molecular evolution in epidemics: a graph approach
Poster 04: Lee Moses	Graduate student, Seoul National University, Korea	Deciphering clonal evolution in a hematopoietic tumor model
Poster 05: Li Hong	Asistant Professor, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Relationship estimation from whole-genome sequence data
Poster 06: Luo Lan	Graduate Student, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	pTop: improving the searching efficienty for intact protein indentification
Poster 07: Ma Lili	Student, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China	MiCroTiTS 4.0: a database of midbody, centrosome, kinetochore, telomere and spindle
Poster 08: Mishra Neha	Graduate student, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies) / National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Lineage-specific genome evolution in Drosophila melanogaster subgroup
Poster 09: Park SunHye	Graduate student, Hanyang University, Korea	Whole genome based variation analysis study in 62 Koreans
Poster 10: Qin Guangrong	Assistant Professor, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, China	Detecting robust DEGs based on gene expression categories
Poster 11: Shokat Shayire	Graduate student, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies) / National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan	Genetic diversity of Kazakhstan camel population and its evolutionary relationship with the Arabian camel breed
Poster 12: Sohn Sumin	Graduate student, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea	Comparative genomic study on Myotis formosus
Poster 13: Wang Yan	Associate Professor, Jilin University, China	Essential protein identification based on essential protein-protein interaction prediction by integrated edge weights
Poster 14: Yoon Hyejun	Graduate student, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea	Comparative genomics for aging genes between bowhead and minke whales
Poster 15: Yoo Taekyeong	Graduate student, Seoul National University, Korea	Understanding phenotypic subdivision using a non-conventional model species
Poster 16: Uchizono Shun	Graduate student, Kyushu University Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan	Characterizing polymorphism in sugar taste sensitivity in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster
Poster 17 (Selected Short Talk4): Urbanczyk Henryk	Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan	Systematics of "Harveyi clade" bacteria (family Vibrionaceae), using evolutionary bioinformatics

Program

Symposium will be held at Seminar room of OIST Seaside House 1st floor.
Talk time for invited speakers is 35 min. including questions and discussions.
Talk time for selected young investigators is 20 min. including questions and discussions.
Posters will be put at OIST Seaside House first floor. Size of poster is W880mm X H1,170mm.

All names follow East Asian style: family name (surname) is first, then given name.
Invited speakers will stay at Costa Vista Okinawa Hotel & Spa, and young attendants will stay at OIST Seaside House.

Day 1: Monday, August 10, 2015
13:00-13:30	Registration & Poster preparation
13:30-13:40	Introduction	Saitou Naruya (NIG) & Satoh Noriyuki (OIST)
13:40-14:15	Invited Talk 1: Noncoding sequence and precision medicine	Chen Runsheng, China
14:15-14:50	Invited Talk 2: Network analysis to understand the process of metazoan evolution	Kim Sanguk, Korea
14:50-15:25	Invited Talk 3: Horitzontal gene transfer, when and how: a case study of tunicates	Satoh Noriyuki, OIST, Japan
15:25-16:00	Invited Talk 4: Big BioData vs Small BioCuration	Zhao Guoping, China
16:00-16:30	Tea Break
16:30-17:05	Invited Talk 5: Predicting the splicing quantitative trait loci	Kim Sangsoo, Korea
17:05-17:40	Invited Talk 6: Comparative metagenomics: diversities of marine microorganisms between Japan and Saudi Arabia	Gojobori Takashi, KAUST/NIG, Japan
17:40-18:15	Invited Talk 7: Data mining: driven by functional studies for biology	Li Yixue, China
18:15-18:50	Invited Talk 8: Building infrastructure for Korean bioresource information management and cloud-based omics data analysis platform	Kim Ryan Woonbong, Korea
19:00-20:00	Dinner at Seaside House
20:00-21:00	Poster Presentation 1
Day 2: Tuesday, August 11, 2015
09:00-9:20	Selected Short Talk 1: A search for genetic variants associated with 3D facial morphology in Japanese	Kimura Ryosuke, Japan
09:20-9:40	Selected Short Talk 2: Structural variants from whole genome sequencing of Korean population	Park Young Chan, Korea
09:40-10:00	Selected Short Talk 3: Whole genome sequencing of six dog breeds from continuous altitudes reveals adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia	Wang Zhen, China
10:00-10:35	Invited Talk 9: Towards better genome annotation	Nakamura Yasukazu, NIG, Japan
10:35-11:10	Invited Talk 10: Dynamics of genome architecture evolution across metazoans	Oleg Simakov, OIST, Japan
11:10-11:45	Invited Talk 11: Identification of protein variants influencing protein abundance levels in breast cancer	Xie Lu, China
11:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:35	Invited Talk 12: Is "thrifty genotype hypothesis" by Neel still valid?	Inoue Ituro, NIG, Japan
14:35-15:10	Invited Talk 13: Inferring ancestral DNA sequences under non-stationary models: Methodology and applications	Akashi Hiroshi, NIG, Japan
15:10-15:45	Invited Talk 14: Ancestral genome reconstruction	Kim Jaebum, Korea
15:45-16:20	Invited Talk 15: This is not relevant	Robert Sinclair, OIST, Japan
16:20-16:40	Tea Break
16:40-18:30	Poster Presenation 2
18:30-19:00	Move to hotel
19:00-21:00	Banquet at Kafuu Resort Fuchaku Hotel
Day 3: Wednesday, August 12, 2015
09:00-9:20	Selected Short Talk 4: Systematics of "Harveyi clade" bacteria (family Vibrionaceae), using evolutionary bioinformatics	Urbanczyk Henryk, Japan
09:20-9:40	Selected Short Talk 5: The change of Genotype-Phenotype relationship can be explained by rewiring of functional module	Kim DongHyo, Korea
09:40-10:00	Selected Short Talk 6: The building blocks of the genome 3D structure	Shi Yi, China
10:00-10:20	Selected Short Talk 7: Targeted sequencing using pooled DNA samples to maximize variant discovery power for Alzheimer's disease susceptibility prediction	Seo Ji Eun, Korea
10:20-10:40	Selected Short Talk 8: Multi-scale RNA comparison	Li Ying, China
10:40-11:05	Invited Talk 16: Platform for drug discovery from genome sequence to protein structure	Ikeo Kazuho, NIG, Japan
11:05-11:40	Invited Talk 17: Diversity of conserved noncoding sequence evolution among eukaryotes	Saitou Naruya, NIG, Japan
11:50-14:00	Lunch & closing ceremony
14:00-15:00	Removal of posters
15:00-16:00	Visit to OIST (optional)

Organizing committee

Gojobori Takashi, Distinguished Professor, Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Ikeo Kazuho, Associate Professor, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan
Saitou Naruya, Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Japan (Chair)
Satoh Noriyuki, Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan

All informations are updated on August 11th, 2015.