MaCSBio Science Day 2023 | Creating optimal models: constraints and opportunities
It is our pleasure to invite you to our MaCSBio Science Day 2023. The theme of this year’s meeting is: Creating optimal models: constraints and opportunities.
Our programme contains exciting keynote lectures on the theme, Systems Biology master's students presenting their thesis work, MaCSBio staff presenting their latest research and poster sessions.
Programme
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00 | Opening and welcome by Renaud Jolivet, Full Professor at MaCSBio, Maastricht University |
| 10:10 | Keynote 1 | Contextualization of Molecular Network Models and their Application to Cancer Biology Thomas Sauter, Professor of Systems Biology and Study Director at the University of Luxembourg |
| 11:10 | Highlight presentation 1 | Analyzing metabolic network functionality in health and disease Marian Breuer, Assistant Professor at MaCSBio, Maastricht University |
| 11:40 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | Systems Biology Master student presentations
|
| 13:00 | Lunch / poster session Takes place at MaCSBio offices on the 3rd floor, North tower PHS1 |
| 14:30 | Keynote 2 | How interpretable latent spaces can enhance data-driven systems biology Rachel Cavill, Assistant Professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University |
| 15:30 |
Highlight presentation 2 | Developing deep neural networks for machine hearing and understanding human auditory perception |
| 16:00 | Closing by Renaud Jolivet, followed by drinks and networking sessions |
| 17:30 | End |
Keynote presentations
Keynote 1: Contextualization of Molecular Network Models and their Application to Cancer Biology
Thomas Sauter
Professor of Systems Biology and Study Director at University of Luxembourg
Keynote 2 | How interpretable latent spaces can enhance data-driven systems biology
Rachel Cavill
Assistant Professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University
Highlight presentations
Highlight presentation 1 | Analyzing metabolic network functionality in health and disease
Marian Breuer
Assistant Professor at MaCSBio, Maastricht University
Highlight presentation 2 | Developing deep neural networks for machine hearing and understanding human auditory perception
Kiki van der Heijden
Assistant Professor at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Poster sessions | Lunch
Poster sessions
Posters displaying ongoing Systems Biology research across Maastricht University.
Lunch
Takes place at MaCSBio offices on the 3rd floor, North tower PHS1.
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