Interuniversity Attraction Pole BioMAGNet (IAP P6/25)

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Press Releases

Press release, Woensdag 21 maart 2012: Cartagenia signs 2 new US customers and appoints Drew Arnold as VP North America
Press release, Woensdag 25 januari 2012(Knack): Genoomanalyse: De kleinste genetische verschilen tussen mensen kunnen worden blootgelegd. J. Reumers (VIB-KU Leuven partner in SymBioSys PF KU Leuven ) over het genoom van de mens.
Press release, Maandag 19 december 2011 (Dagkrant): Allereerste Vlaamse genomen ontrafeld (partner in PF SymBioSys- SISTA )
Press release, December 2011 (Humo): Geek My Nerd Sudoku Metaforum Complete genoomanalyse bij de mens aan K.U.Leuven met participatie van prof. Y. Moreau and prof. J. Aerts (ESAT/SCD/SISTA)
Lees ook het artikel op de Dagkrant: Experten K.U.Leuven wijzen op de mogelijkheden en risico’s van gepersonaliseerde genoomanalyse
Press release, 12/11/2011 (Het Nieuwsblad): Straks 1,3 miljoen Belgen met diabetes (prof. C. Mathieu, diensthoofd endocrinologie UZ Leuven ) - Lees meer ... of download de PDF
Cinq carrières scientifques à l'honneur.
Albert Goldbeter L'art de la modélisation des rythmes du vivant
Comprendre la base moléculaire des processus qui rythment le monde du vivant grâce à la modélisation théorique.
Albert Goldbeter en a fait l'oeuvre de sa vie de chercheur.
Two partners of IAP BioMagNet rewarded by FWO and FNRS
Two members of the IAP BioMagNet received respectively the "Prix scientifiques quinquennaux du F.R.S.- FNRS 2006-2010" awardee Prof. Albert Goldbeter and "FWO-Excellentieprijzen 2010" awardee prof. Bart De Moor
Press release, 23/10/2009: 'Essencia coli' besmet Boston Read full article here...
Press, 29/04/2009: Campuskrant-Studiedag voor biotechnologische spin-offs
Press release, 27/04/2009: Overgrote meerderheid van vroege menselijke embryo's draagt chromosomale afwijkingen. Read more... [PDF], Chromosome instability is common in human cleavage-stage embryos... [PDF]
Please follow this link to our newsletter! Press release, 24/03/2009 (Teleac: Hoe?Zo!):
Interview with Yves Van de Peer
KUL iGEM teams wins Gold Medal again. Click here to read the full article.
Press release, 05/03/2008: Secrets of cooperation between trees and fungi revealed
Press release, October 2007 (ESI Special Topics): Interview with Pierre Rouzé,
Yves Van de Peer, & Hervé Moreau
Press release, 23/05/2005 (VIB News): Interview with Yves Van de Peer
Press release, 22/09/2004 (De Standaard): Wetenschapper van de week

Highlights

The IUAP BioMAGNet at a glance

During the last decade, biology has faced a technological revolution with the development of high-throughput methods for the characterization of genome sequences, transcriptome, and proteome, giving rise to unprecedented amounts of biological data. However, this technological revolution is only beginning to result in a scientific revolution, and we are still far from understanding the function of any genome, even for the simplest and best-characterized model organisms. Beyond the problems of the relatively low quality of high-throughput data, an important obstacle is the inherent complexity of biological processes, whose emerging properties cannot be understood from the simple sum of individual component properties. The field of dynamical modeling has a long tradition of analyzing complex systems, but has generally been restricted to small networks with parameters characterized at a high resolution. The integration of genome, transcriptome, and proteome data into dynamical models of biological processes represents one of the main challenges of current bioinformatics. The aim of this network is to bring together expertise ranging from high-throughput data analysis and reverse engineering to dynamical modeling with the goal of bridging the gap between the domains and serve as an enabler for systems biology. The approaches and software tools developed by the respective teams will be combined for an integrative analysis of a few carefully selected model systems.

Benefits of the network include:

1. sharing of methods and complementary experience between groups traditionally involved in the complementary fields of genome annotation, analysis of omics data, and dynamical modeling;
2. development of a conceptual and practical (software) framework for the integration of genomics, bioinformatics, and modeling approaches;
3. strengthening of the position and visibility of Belgium in this active research domain. Furthermore, the network will be leveraged to increase the quality of the training of our Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.

The project is organized along 5 workpackages.

Bioinformatics research was included and reported upon in the IAP V/22 network "Dynamical Systems and Control: Computation, Identification and Modelling". That phase of the IAP programme has allowed to create a strong team in bioinformatics, as a subgroup of the K.U.Leuven team. Also the ULg team was partner in this IAP network. Because it was considered that the domain has reached a sufficient maturity and that the teams have reached sufficient strength, it was decided to file a proposal for a new network specifically devoted to bioinformatics, for which the K.U.Leuven bioinformatics team is the coordinator.