Brazilian Webinars on Bioinformatics

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BrazWebinars are a series of webinars on Bioinformatics in Brazil made available for joint participation of PhD programs that comprise Bioinformatics or Computational Biology as areas of interest. With a high capacity interface that allows for up to 500 or even 1000 participants, PhD programs may include them as activities of their own. All students and researchers are welcome to BrazWebinars events.

Each BrazWebinar is scheduled for a time selected by its coordinating host/chairperson, and thus may vary from seminar to seminar. All BrazWebinars are already confirmed for the dates listed below, and the links for accessing will be posted here closer to the date.

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January (2021)

January 22th (Friday, 2PM) – in Portuguese

Evolutionary models and computational simulations: Testing the Extended Fitness hypothesis

Dr Sandro de Souza, UFRN

Chair: Carlos Menck, USP
Link ID: 845 0186 3271 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

January 29th (Friday, 2PM)

Protein Docking and Design with Applications in T-cell Receptor Recognition of Antigens

Dr^a Zhiping Weng, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, UMASS Medical School, USA

Chair: Raquel Minardi, UFMG
Link ID: 845 0186 3271 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

February (2021)

February 26th (Friday, 2PM)

An ENCODE Registry of Candidate cis-Regulatory Elements for Human and Mouse

Dra Zhiping Weng, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, UMASS Medical School, USA

Chair: Elisa Donnard, Broad Institute
Link ID: 946 1134 0443 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

March (2021)

March 26th (Friday, 2PM)

Sensitive tree-of-life scale protein alignment using DIAMOND

Dr Benjamin Buchfink, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Chair: Gabriel Fernandes, IRR Fiocruz Minas
Link ID: 959 1978 7208 passwd: brazweb21

April (2021)

April 14th (Wednesday, 11AM)

Evolutionary Medicine for the microbiome: Towards rational microbiome engineering

Dr. Jonas Schluter,  NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA

Chair: Lucymara Fassarella Agnez-Lima, UFRN
Link ID: 925 7534 8278 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

April 30th (Friday, 11AM)

Disease and functional relevance of protein phosphorylation

Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-EBI, UK

Chair: João Paulo Matos Santos Lima, UFRN
Link ID: 931 7862 3178 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

May (2021)

May 7h (Friday, 2PM ) – in Portuguese

Impacts of artificial intelligence on medicine

Dr. Nivio Ziviani, Professor Emeritus at DCC/UFMG and Kunumi co-founder

Chair: Marcos Santos, UFMG
Link ID: 955 4765 5222 passwd: brazweb YouTube

May 28th (Friday, 2PM )

What we have learned from analysing ancient genomes

Drª Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, DE

Chair: Arthur Gruber, USP
Link ID: 980 8263 9008 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

June (2021)

Rescheduled September 20th

miRabel, a web tool for efficient prediction of microRNA targets. Application for the study of hormone hypersecretion in neuroendocrine cancers

Dr Christophe Dubessy, Université de Rouen Normandie, France

Chair: Vinícius Maracajá, Universidad de Chile

July (2021)

July 2nd (Friday, 2PM ) – in Portuguese

The role of bioinformatics in combating the pandemic: from basic research to therapies and surveillance

Dr. Gabriel Fernandes, IRR/Fiocruz-MG

Chair: Liza Felicori, UFMG
Link ID: 937 0032 4014 passdw: brazweb21 YouTube

July 7th (Wednesday, 11AM) – in Portuguese

UniProt (World Center for Protein Knowledge) – version 2021

Leonardo Gonzales, Software Engineer EMBL-EBI, UK

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN
Link ID: 961 3850 3692 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

July14th (Wednesday, 11AM) – in Portuguese

Clinical impact of macrophage subpopulations on the tumor microenvironment

Drª Mariana Boroni, INCA-RJ, co-founder of CellSeq and OneSkin

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN
Link Google Meets YouTube

July 23th (Friday, 2PM)

Doing Bioinformatics and Epidemiology in global FAIR Data Spaces – the planet of the Apps where code travels to the data

Dr Jonas Almeida, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA

YouTubeChair: Ana Tereza Vasconcelos, LNCC
Link ID: 915 3061 5290 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

July 28th (Wednesday, 11AM)

Exploring gene expression in single cells with Single Cell Expression Atlas

Drª Irene Papatheodorouker, EMBL-EBI, UK

Chair: Glória Franco, UFMG
Link ID: 975 7140 6593 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

August (2021)

August 4th (Wednesday, 11AM) – in Portuguese

A mysterious 80 nm amoeba virus with a near-complete ORFan genome challenges the classification of DNA viruses

Paulo Boratto, PhD program in Microbiology, UFMG

Chair: Aristóteles Góes-Neto, UFMG
Link ID: 882 5666 1585 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

August 13th (Friday, 2PM) – in Portuguese

Transfer RNA: The Molecular Demiurge at the Origin of Life

Dr Sávio Torres de Farias, UFPB

Chair: Francisco Prosdocimi, IBqM-UFRJ
Link ID: 825 1279 9307 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

August 20th (Friday, 2PM)

The efficiency of gene regulation: how speed and accuracy influence mRNA processing

Dr^a Athma Pai, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMASS Medical School, USA

Chair: Glória Franco, UFMG
Link ID: 853 4704 2079 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

September (2021)

September 10th (Friday, 2PM; 6PM in UK)

Exploring molecular interactions in high detail with IntAct

Dr Henning Hermjakob, EMBL-EBI, UK

Chair: Sandro de Souza, UFRN
Link ID: 890 8401 4492 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

October (2021)

October 1st (Friday, 2PM; 7PM in Lux)

Covid-19 disease map: building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms

Dr Marek Ostaszewski, University of Luxembourg

Chair: Reinhard Schneider, Univ. Luxembourg
Link ID: 872 8270 6415 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

October 15th (Friday, 2PM; 1PM in USA)

Simulating genetic diversity in heterogenous landscapes: why, how, limits and perspectives

Dr Arnaud Becheler, University of Michigan, USA

Chair: Cecilia Fiorini, UFMG
Link ID: 839 8099 2172 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

October 20th (Wednesday, 11AM; 4PM in France)

miRabel, a web tool for efficient prediction of microRNA targets. Application for the study of hormone hypersecretion in neuroendocrine cancers

Dr Christophe Dubessy, Université de Rouen Normandie, France

Chair: Vinícius Maracajá, Universidad de Chile
Link ID: 856 6502 0454 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

November (2021)

November 5th (Friday, 2PM; 1PM in NYC)

Machine Learning to Impute Knowledge in Molecular Systems Biology and Systems Pharmacology

Dr Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, USA

Chair: Helder Nakaya, USP
Link ID: 874 5080 7664 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

November 12th (Friday, 2PM – in Portuguese)

How genomics and transcriptomics are helping us understand reproductive infertility in Drosophila

Dr. Guilherme Baião, Inst. Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Suécia

Chair: Aristóteles Góes Neto, UFMG
Link ID: 838 7015 4821 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

December (2021)

December 3rd (Friday, 2PM; 11AM in Chicago)

The compressed molecular vocabulary of life

Dr. Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Univ. Illinois, USA

Chair: Savio Farias, UFPB
Link ID: 853 2884 4476 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

January (2022)

January 14th – (Friday 2PM; 9AM in California)

Big Data and Health

Dr. Michael Snyder, Director of Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, USA

Chair: Eduardo Tarazona, UFMG
Link ID: 817 5591 5831 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

January 21st – (Friday 2PM; 6PM in Rome)

MicroRNAs and cross-kingdom, a new research frontier for personalised medicine

Dr. Stefano Pirrò, MirNat, Italy

Chair: Marta Giovanetti, IOC/Fiocruz
Link ID: 837 9204 7008 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

February (2022)

February 11th (Friday 2PM; 9AM in San Diego)

Building and Visualizing the Molecular Cell

Dr. Arthur J. Olson, Anderson Research Chair Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

Chair: Rafaela Ferreira, UFMG
Link ID: 892 9949 0024 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

February 25th (Friday 2PM; 5PM in Hinxton)

A new era in structural biology: The impact of structure prediction using AI methods

Dr. Sameer Velankar, PDBe Team Leader- EMBL-EBI

Chair: Lucas Bleicher, UFMG
Link ID: 830 4974 6735 passwd: brazweb21 YouTube

March (2022)

March 30th – new date (Wednesday 11AM; 10AM in NYC) – in Portuguese

Genomic context sensitivity of insulator functions

Dr. André M Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Center for Synthetic Regulatory Genomics. NYU

Chair: Sandro de Souza, UFRN
Link ID: 854 4139 4610 passwd: brazweb21

April (2022)

April 6th (Wednesday 11AM) – in Portuguese

Cassette Tape, Floppy Disk, HD, Zip Drive, CD, DVD, Web, Pen Drive, SSD, AppStore, Arduino: Life and Death in Educational Software Development

Dr. Eduardo Galembeck, UNICAMP

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN
Link ID: 854 4139 4610 passwd: brazweb21

May (2022)

May 6th (Friday 11AM) – in portuguese 

High-Performance Bioinformatics – A Corporate Vision at Varsomics

Dr. Rafael Guedes (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein/Varsomics

May 20th (Friday 2PM; 6PM in Glasgow)

Single cell transcriptomics in parasites – where are we?

Dr. Thomas Dan Otto, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Chair: Ana Carolina Ramos Guimarães, IOC Fiocruz

June (2022)

June 3rd (Friday 2PM in Mato Grosso do Sul) – in Portuguese

Multiple Alignment of Long Sequences in Multi-GPU Environment

Dr. Marco Aurélio Stefanes, Facom, UFMS

Chair: Jorge Stefano de Souza, UFRN

June 24th (Friday 2PM)

The diverged machinery and dynamics of DNA replication in kinetoplastid parasites

Dr. Richard McCulloch,  University of Glasgow, Scotland

Chair: Carlos Renato Machado, UFMG

July (2022)

July 8th (Friday 2PM; 1PM in Maryland)

Computational tools for accurate, fast and memory-frugal analysis of bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data

Dr. Rob Patro, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Chair: Mariana Boroni, INCA

July 22nd (Friday 11AM) – in Portuguese

Statistical analysis of biological networks

Dr. André Fujita, USP

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN

August (2022)

September (2022)

September 2nd (Friday 2PM; 1PM in Boston)

Running analysis workflows on the cloud with WDL and Cromwell

Drª Geraldine Van der Auwera, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chair: Rafael Guedes, Versomics

September 9th (Friday 2PM)

Precision health in UFMG during COVID-19

Dr. Debmalya Barh,Visiting Full Professor, UFMG

Chair: Sandeep Tiwari, UFBA

October (2022)

October 21st (Friday 2PM) – in portuguese

The Gut Microbiome of Brazilian Amazonians across diverse lifestyles

Drª Ana Paula Schaan, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, UFPA

Chair: Ândrea Ribeiro dos Santos, UFPA

October 26th (Wednesday 11AM) – in portuguese

The challenges of women in bioinformatics in the international job market: career, gender and diversity

Drª Luciana Márcia de Oliveira, ADLIN Science, France

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN

November (2022)

November 4th (Friday 2PM; 5PM in Dublin)

A new phylogenetic protocol: dealing with model misspecification and confirmation bias in molecular phylogenetics

Dr. Lars Jermiin, University College Dublin, Ireland

Chair: Joáo Paulo Matos, UFRN

November 25th (Wednesday 11AM; 3PM in Stockholm)

Reproducible bioinformatics for everyone: Nextflow & nf-core

Dr. Phil Ewels, Seqera Labs, Sweden

Chair: Rodrigo Dalmolin, UFRN

December (2022)

December 16th (Friday 11AM) – in portuguese

Species protection and bioeconomy in the Amazon through genetics and genomics

Dr. Guilherme Oliveira, Instituto Vale, Pará

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN

January (2023)

January 20th (Friday 10AM) – in Portuguese

From Leishmania genome to ncRNAs studies: are they involved in the parasite gene expression regulation?

Drª Angela Cruz, Fac. Med. USP Ribeirão Preto

Chair: Santuza Teixeira, UFMG

February (2023)

February 3rd (Friday 14AM) – in Portuguese

The Latin American Research Consortium on the Genetics of Parkinson Disease: how the study of neglected populations is helping to unravel Parkinson disease

Dr. Thiago Peixoto Leal, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Chair: Eduardo Tarazona, UFMG

March (2023)

March 17th (Friday 2PM) – in Portuguese

Small RNAs, Big Attributes: Unraveling the Mosquito Virome Around the Planet

João Paulo Pereira de Almeida, Marques Lab, ICB UFMG

Chair: Aristóteles Goes Neto, UFMG

April (2023)

April 14th (Friday 2PM) – in Portuguese

Do everything you want in biology: history of the first biohackerspace in Brazil and iGEM

Drª Liza Felicori (UFMG) with IdeaReal and IGEM-UFMG/UFV teams, at LCC Podcast

Chair: J. Miguel Ortega, UFMG

April 28th (Friday 2PM) – in Portuguese

Introduction to Quantum Computing – using Atos myQLM

Genaro Costa, PhD, PMP, Atos R&D Labs at Senai CIMATEC

Chair: Aristóteles Goes Neto, UFMG

May (2023)

May 5th (Friday 2PM) – in Portuguese

RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information: a new understanding of molecular biology

Dr. Paulo P. Amaral, Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo

Chair: Glória Franco, UFMG

June (2023)

June 2nd (Friday 2PM; 1PM in Baltimore) – in English

Releasing the Kraken: High-performance computational methods for microbiome analysis

Dr. Derrick Wood, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Chair: Marcelo Brandão, UNICAMP & AB3C president

June 23nd (Friday 2PM) – in English

Conceptualizing “Pharmaco-nutrigenomics” for precision public/planetary health: COVID-19, a case study

Dr. Debmalya Barh , VIsiting Professor, UFMG

Chair: Aristóteles Góes Neto, UFMG

June 30rd (Friday 11AM; 4PM in Dresden) – in Portuguese!

Structure-based drug repositioning before AlphaFold (and after)

Dr. Michael Schroeder, director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering of TU Dresden, Germany

Chair: Marcos Augusto dos Santos, UFMG

August (2023)

August 25nd (Friday 2PM) – in Portuguese!

DNA: a single molecule with multiple origins

Dr. Sávio Torres de Farias, UFPB

Chair: J. Miguel Ortega, UFMG

September (2023)

September 29th (Friday 2PM; 1PM in Michigan)

Avida-ED: Learning Evolution and the Nature of Science using Evolving Digital Organisms

Dr. Robert Pennock, Michigan State Univ. USA

Chair: Fabricio Santos, UFMG

October (2023)

October 25th (Wednesday 11AM) – in Portuguese

From genomes to solutions: unveiling the potential of ThermoMutDB and SARS-CoV-2 Africa Dashboard (Premio Capes de Teses 2023 Bioinformática)

Drª Joicymara Xavier, Univ. Fed. Vales Jequitinhonha e Mucuri; research fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Chair: Tetsu Sakamoto, UFRN

November (2023)

November 10th (Friday 2PM) – hybrid talk

Nucleic acid analogues as tools for research and biomedical applications

Drª Kira Astakhova, Technical University of Denmark

Chair: Gerald Weber, UFMG

December (2023)

December 1st (Friday 2PM; 7PM in Finland)

Sensitive inference of alignment-safe intervals from biodiverse protein sequence clusters using EMERALD

Dr Grigorjew, Andreas, University of Helsinki, Finland

Chair: Francisco Lobo, UFMG

March (2024)

POSTPONED = March 8th (Friday 2PM; 6PM in Tuebingen)

What we learned from clustering 20 billion protein sequences across the tree of life with DIAMOND2 DeepClust

Dr Hajk-Georg Drost, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Chair: J Miguel Ortega, UFMG

March 15th – in Portuguese

Tribute to structural bioinformatics at UFMG: a decade without M. Santoro and the rebirth of first ICB workstation “biomat1”

Humperto d’Muniz Pereira (USP-SC) e Carlos Silveira (UNIFEI), biomat1 users!

Chair: J Miguel Ortega, UFMG

April (2024)

April 19th 2PM (7PM in Basel)

Protein-Ligand Complex Prediction: Are We There Yet?

Dr Xavier Robin and Dr. Janani Durairaj, CAMEO Team, SIB, Universität Basel

Chair: Rafaela Ferreira, UFMG

May (2024)

May 10th 2PM – in Portuguese

The Brazilian Supercomputing Ecosystem for Academic Research

Dr Antonio Tadeu Gomes, LNCC

Chair: J Miguel Ortega, UFMG