The workshop was held on June 28th, 2017 and was organized by Carlos G Oliver, Roman Sarrazin Gendron and Jérôme Waldispühl (CSB, McGill).

Thanks to everyone who contributed in making it an enjoyable experience!

Schedule

08:50 to 9:20	Arrival
9:20 to 9:30	Opening remarks
9:30 to 10:45	Principal investigators present their main research interests (5 min + 10 min discussion/questions)
09:30	Jérôme Waldispühl	McGill
09:45	Yann Ponty	Polytechnique
10:00	Mireille Régnier	Polytechnique
10:15	Éric Lécuyer	IRCM (Institut de recherches liniques de Montreal)
10:30	Nicolas Moitessier	McGill
10:45	Mathieu Blanchette	McGill
	15 min break
11:15 to 12:35	Students present an overview of their research (5 min + 3 min discussion/questions)
11:15:00	Philip Bouvrette	Lécuyer, IRCM	RNA localization
11:23	Juan-Carlos Padilla	Lécuyer, IRCM	Defining the Mechanisms of RNA Targeting to Extracellular Vesicles
11:31	Mansha Imtiyaz	Blanchette	Prediction of subcellular mRNA localization
11:39	Juraj Michalik	Ponty	Non-redudant sampling for locally optimal RNA structures
	10 min break
11:59	Roman Sarrazin Gendron	Waldispühl, McGill	Using graphical models to predict RNA 3D-structure and ligand-binding from sequence
12:07	Carlos G Oliver	Waldispühl, McGill	Evolution of complexity in RNA and RNA-ligand binding prediction
12:15	Jiaying Luo	Moitessier, McGill	RNA binding motifs in riboswitches with known 3D structure.
12:23	Wanlei Wei	Moitessier, McGill	Docking of Small Molecules against Nucleic Acid Targets.
12:30 to 1:10	Lunch break. Food will be provided
1:15 to 3:00	Remaining student presentations
01:10	Antoine Soulé	Waldispühl, McGill	caRNAval
01:18	Pouriya Alikhani	Waldispühl, McGill	caRNAval
01:26	Jeffrey Hyacinthe	Moitessier, McGill	caRNAval
01:34	Xiang Chen Zhu	Moitessier, McGill	caRNAval
01:42	Amir Kadivar	Blanchette, McGill	Fast read-to-read alignment
01:50	Faizy Ahsan	Blanchette, McGill	Prediction of cell-type specific regulation from multi-species comparison
	15 min break
02:13	Christopher Cameron	Blanchette, McGill	High-Resolution estimation for true DNA-DNA interaction frequency from Hi-C data
02:21	Jeremy Georges-Filteau	Blanchette, McGill	Prediction of sample origin (phylogenetics networks)
02:29	Ali Atiia	Waldispühl, McGill	Biological networks
02:37	Corbin Hopper	Waldispühl, McGill	Biological networks as graphs
02:45	Akash Singh	Waldispühl, McGill	Phylo : mobile application
02:53	Eric Zhang	Waldispühl, McGill	3D genome browser
03:00	Closing remarks

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