BioC 2019: Where Software and Biology Connect

When: June 24 - 27, 2019
What: Developer Day, Main Conference, Symposium
Where: NYU and Rockefeller University, New York City, USA
Slack: Bioconductor Team (#bioc2019 channel)
Twitter: #bioc2019

Robert Gentleman Symposium (June 27)

Robert Gentleman is one of the original authors of the R language and founder of the Bioconductor project. This special symposium day is being organized for Robert Gentleman’s 60th birthday, in honor of his wide-ranging and influential contributions to statistical computing and computational biology.

The symposium and receiption will be held in Weiss East (the lunch area during the main conference), Rockfeller University.

8:30 - 9:00 – Registration and breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 – Welcome / opening remarks

• Wolfgang Huber and Levi Waldron

9:30 - 10:30 – Short talks

• Vincent Carey – Harvard
• Denise Scholtens – NorthWestern / Chicago
• Dave Harrington – DFCI / Harvard
• Leonard Goldstein – Genentech / SF
• Martin Morgan - Roswell Park / NY
• Wolfgang Huber - EMBL / Heidelberg

10:30 - 11:00 – Break

11:00 - 11:20 – Evolution of the R / Bioconductor communities

• Wolfgang Huber - EMBL / Heidelberg
• Aedin Culhane - DFCI / Harvard

11:20 - 12:00 – Short talks

• Rafael Irizarry - Harvard
• Seth Falcon – BlaBlaCar / Paris
• Thomas Wu – Genentech / SF
• Thomas Lumley – University of Auckland

12:00 - 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 – Short talks

• Richard Bourgon – Genentech / SF
• Jeff Gentry – Broad Institute
• Gabe Becker – Genentech / SF
• Patrick Aboyoun – Nanostring / Seattle
• Josh Kaminker – Genentech / SF
• Simon Tavaré - New York Genome Center

2:30 - 3:00 – Break

3:00 - 3:45 – Founders of R and Bioconductor panel discussion

4:00 - 5pm – Free public keynote talk by Robert Gentleman

5:00 - 7:00pm – Reception