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Program of ICoVax 2012

News: the final publications of the workshop can be found HERE in the BioMed Central.

 

Notes:

• Time: October 13 (Saturday), 2012
• Venue: Medical Building (医学楼） Room 1101, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Please check the detail of how to get to the venue in the Venue page.
• Advertisement: See the ads provided by Dr. Zhiwei Cao's group: Ad page 1, page 2.
• The authors with bold font highlight in the author lists are the paper presenters.
• In a morning break of the workshop, all attendees got together and showed up in the Photo of ICoVax 2012 Attendees.

 

ICoVax 2012 Program

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration
 
9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome Introduction

• Self-introductions of all attendees
• Zhiwei Cao and Yognqun "Oliver" He: briefly introduce the whole day schedule with any possible updates 

9:10 - 10:10 am
Session 1: Immunoinformatics Software Programs
Chair:   Zhiwei Cao

• Evaluation and integration of existing methods for computational prediction of allergens -- by: Jing Wang, Yabin Yu, Yunan Zhao, Dabing Zhang and Jing Li. (25 min talk + 5 min flash software demo) (note: a new software program called proAP is introduced in this paper) [Slides]
• MetaMHCIIpan: a consensus approach for pan-specific HLA-DR binding predictions -- by: Lianming Zhang, Linyuan Guo, Hiroshi Mamitsuka and Shanfeng Zhu. (10 min flash talk + 5 min flash software demo) (See poster for more information) [Slides] [Software: MetaMHCIIpan]
• SAROTUP 2.0: a suite of web tools for finding potential target-unrelated peptides from phage display data -- by: Jian Huang and Beibei Ru. (10 min flash talk + 5 min flash software demo) (See poster for more information) [Slides] [Video] [Poster] [Software: SAROTUP]
• iVAX Web-based Vaccine Design -- by: Frances Terry, Denice Spero, William Martin and Anne De Groot. (No oral presentation. See poster for more information)

10:10 – 10:35 am  Break and Poster Session

10:35–12:00 am
Session 2: Vaxign Vaccine Design Application and Vaxign software Demo
Chair:  Jing Li
Paper presentation (10:35 – 11:00 am):

• Genome-wide prediction of vaccine targets for human herpes simplex viruses using Vaxign reverse vaccinology -- by: Zuoshuang Xiang and Yongqun He. (25 min) [Slides]

Vaxign Software Demo (11:00am – 12:00 noon):
Topic: Introduce and demonstrate how to use Vaxign program -- by: Allen Xiang and Oliver He [Slides] [Hands-on Document]
Note: Also, check the Vaxign tutorial and Vaxign documentation web pages for more information.

• Basic introduction of the program (10 minutes)
• Introduction of use cases and data (5 minutes)
• A website demo and instruction (15 minutes)
• Hands on exercises by trainees (30 minutes)

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
Lunch Break and Poster Session

1:30 pm – 3:30 noon
Session 3: 3D protein structure-based predictions: B-cell conformational epitope prediction and protein-ligand binding region predictions
Chair:  Yongqun He

• Tutorial: B-cell conformational epitope prediction: current status and future direction -- by: Jing Sun and Zhiwei Cao. (25 min talk) [Slides]
• Software Demo: SEPPA by Zhiwei Cao [Demo Material]

SEPPA – A conformational B-cell epitope prediction tool:  http://lifecenter.sgst.cn/seppa/ (35 min)

• Prediction of Conformational Epitopes by Knowledge-based Energy Function and Geometrical Neighbouring Residue Contents -- by: Ying-Tsang Lo, Tun-Wen Pai, Wei-Kuo Wu and Hao-Teng Chang.  (25 min+ 5 min flash software demo) [Slides]
• Protein-ligand Binding Region Prediction based on Geometric Features and GPU Acceleration -- by: Ying-Tsang Lo, Hsin-Wei Wang, Tun-Wen Pai, Wen-Shoung Tzou and Hao-Teng Chang.  (25 min+ 5 min flash software demo) [Slides]
   

3:30 - 3:45 pm Break
3:45–4:20 am
Session 4: More Computational Vaccinology Applications
Chair:  Jian Huang

• Bioinformatics analysis of the epitope regions for Noroviruses Capsid Protein -- by: Liping Chen, Di Wu, Lei Ji, Xiaofang Wu, Deshun Xu, Zhiwei Cao and Jiankang Han. (25 min talk) [Slides]
• Heterologous immunity potentially affects the immune response to EV71 infection and vaccine -- by: Ruicheng Wei, Mei Zheng, Frances Terry, William Martin, Anne De Groot and Qibin Leng. (10 min flash talk) (See poster for more information) [Slides]
• Analysis of ChimeriVax Dengue virus envelope for T-cell epitopes and comparison to circulating viral strains in Indonesia -- by: Marsia Gustiananda, Tedjo Sasmono, Andres Gutierrez Nunez, Benediktus Yohan, Leonard Moise, Aryati, Puspa Wardhani, Frances Terry, William Martin and Anne S De Groot. (No oral presentation. See poster for more information)

4:20 – 5:00 pm
Session 5: General Discussion
Moderators: Zhiwei Cao, Oliver He
Topic: Challenges and opportunities    

• Current achievements and challenges
• Future directions
• International community collaborations
• How to next year?
• Other open issues for discussion

5:00 pm Workshop ends

 

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