Multiple DNA Codes
A Workshop on Sequence Biology
Together with ETT-Fellow Alexander Bolshoy (Institute of Evolution, Haifa University) the MGSE organized a workshop on "Multiple DNA Codes" on 28 - 29 September 2015 in Münster. The workshop was opened by Alexander Bolshoy with an introduction to sequence biology, before Edward Trifonov (Institute of Evolution, Haifa University) reported on nucleosome positioning patterns in his talk on "Chromatin code today". The second day of the workshop started with a talk by Olga Ozoline (Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences) on "Code of transcription initiation in E. coli" in which she focussed on the biological role and evolution of promoter islands. Finally, Philipp Bucher (Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL) ended the lecture part of the workshop with his talk on "The role of DNA sequence motifs and positioned nucleosomes in Eukaryotic transcription start site selection". The talks formed the basis for a round table discussion in the afternoon in which PhD students and senior researchers met to discuss latest concepts and hypothesis in computational biology.
