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CCii/CGM International Joint Symposium of Omics Analysis and its Application to Human Disease March 4, 2023 Confirmed Speakers and Talk Titles

 9:00-9:10  Opening remarks

Tasuku Honjo (Director, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, Kyoto University, Japan)

Session 1 Technological Development of Omics Analysis

9:10 – 9:50 RNA splicing is a crucial layer of omics analysis: The stories of cancer neoantigens and COVID-19 precision medicine

       Kei Iida (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Japan)

9:50 – 10:30  Proteome-based approach to human health and disease

       Sumio Ohtsuki (Faculty of Life Science, Kumamoto University, Japan)

10:30 – 10:40  (Short break)

10:40 – 11:20  Extracting latent representation from life science data for understanding drugs

       Tadahaya Mizuno (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

11:20 – 12:20  Short talks by young scientists (4 speakers)

12:20 – 13:50  Lunch

Session 2 Applications to Human Health and Disease

13:50 – 14:30  Computational Genomics for Precision Medicine

Yosuke Tanigawa (Computational Biology Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA)

14:30 – 15:10 Genomics of rare and functional variation in childhood disease

   Tomi Pastinen (Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, USA)

15:10 – 16:10  Short talks by young scientists (4 speakers)

16:10 – 16:20 Short break)

16:20 – 17:00   Impact of gut microbial metabolites on human health and diseases

   Dominique Gauguier (Institut National de la Sante et la Recehrche Medicale, France)

17:00 – 17:40  Identification of strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in melanoma using

   multi-omic approaches

   Ian Watson (Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Canada)

17:40 – 17:50  Wrap up session & closing remarks

   Mark Lathrop (McGill Genome Center, McGill University, Canada)