8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Registration

9:00 a.m. -

9:30 a.m.

Opening Welcome:

• Christian Borgemeister, Alia Benkahla, Olivier Gascuel and Daniel Masiga

9:30 a.m. -

10:30 a.m.

Keynote 1:

• Winston Hide (ZA)
  Translation of Genomics in endemic countries

10:30 a.m. -

11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. -

12:00 a.m.

Keynote 2:

• Appolinaire Djikeng (US)
  Genomics and Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases: Influenza and Coronaviruses

12:00 a.m. -

2:00 p.m.

Lunch - Poster session 1

2:00 p.m. -

3:00 p.m.

Keynote 3:

• Enrique Morett (MX)
  Taenia genomics

  presentation

3:00 p.m. -

3:40 p.m.

Paper Presentations

• Nicky Mulder (ZA)
  Comparative analysis of pathogenic and non-pathogenic microbial genomes

  presentation

• Karyn Megy (UK)
  VectorBase, Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens

  presentation

3:40 p.m. -

4:10 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:10 p.m. -

5:10 p.m.

Paper Presentations

• Adane Abraham (ET)
  Characterization, Genome Organization and phylogenetic analysis of Two New Viruses Infecting Legume Crops in Ethiopia

  presentation

• Daniel Masiga (KE)
  DNA barcoding and taxonomy of Glossina

  presentation

• Ezekiel Adebiyi (NG)
  A convoluted problem and heuristic solution for predicting ensembles and transitions for pseudoknots polymers

  presentation

5:30 p.m. -

Cocktail Party at Duduville International Guest House (DIGC) Terrace (ICIPE)

9:00 a.m. -

10:00 a.m.

Keynote 4:

• Matthew Berriman (UK)
  Data mining parasite genomes

10:00 a.m. -

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. -

11:50 a.m.

Keynote 5:

• Tulio De Oliveira (ZA)
  Resources and databases for HIV

• Gonedelé Bi Sery (CI)
  Clade diversity of HIV-1 subtype A pol gene in Côte d'Ivoire:
  evidence of underestimated rate of recombinant form

  presentation

11:50 a.m. -

2:00 p.m.

Lunch - Poster session 2

2:00 p.m. -

3:00 p.m.

Keynote 6:

• Amos Bairoch (SW)
  The annotation of proteins from pathogens in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: current status and future plans

  presentation

3:00 p.m. -

3:40 p.m.

Paper Presentations

• Sheila Cecily Ommeh (KE)
  Analysis of signatures of polymorphisms and positive adaptive selection at candidate genes for genetic resistance to avian viral diseases

  presentation

• Heikki Lehvaslaiho (ZA)
  A Molecular Integration Database System for all: Integration of HIV clinical and molecular data using open source genome management tools

  presentation

3:40 p.m. -

4:10 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:10 p.m. -

5:10 p.m.

Paper Presentations

• Laurent Bréhélin (FR)
  A guilt by association method for the prediction of Plasmodium falciparum gene function

  presentation

• Sondos Smandi (TN)
  Global analysis of Leishmania genes expression using SAGE libraries

  presentation

• Amel Ghouila (TN)
  Multi-SOM: A novel clustering approach for gene expression analysis

  presentation

5:10 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

ISCB-SC, Segun Fatumo (NG)

5:20 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

International Glossina Genome initiative (IGGI) Meeting (closed session)
(chairman: Win Hide)

6:15 a.m. -

1:00 p.m.

Visit to Nairobi National Park

1:00 p.m. -

2:30 p.m.

Lunch

2:30 p.m. -

3:30 p.m.

Keynote 8:

• Michel Tibayrenc (FR)
  Trypanosomia, host/parasite/vector coevolution

  presentation

3:30 p.m. -

4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. -

5:00 p.m.

Paper presentations

• Niven Abdel Wahab Salih (SD)
  Dynamics of migrations of malaria protective polymorphisms across Africa's Sahel

• Etienne de Villiers (KE)
  Identification of Theileria parva vaccine candidate genes using a bioinformatics approach

  presentation

• Lillian Wambua (KE)
  Discovery of novel drug targets against pathogenic protozoa: The promise of metabolic reconstruction

  presentation

• Ikram Guizani (TN)
  LBTx: A tool box for the selection and analysis of potential Leishmania targets for intervention and disease control

5:10 p.m. -

6:10 p.m.

ASBCB Annual General Meeting (AGM)
(chairman: Raphael isokpehi)

9:00 a.m. -

10:00 a.m.

Keynote 9:

• Raphael Isokpehi (US)
  Information Superstructure for Protozoan Aquaporins

10:00 a.m. -

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. -

11:30 a.m.

Keynote 10:

• Mohammad Afshar (FR)
  In silico drug design

11:30 a.m. -

12:30 p.m.

Paper Presentations

• Marion O. Owolabi (NG)
  Computational Discovery of Drugs Resistance Mechanism(s) of the Malaria Parasite (Plasmodium falciparum (P.f))

  presentation

• Leo Ghemtio (FR)
  Large-scale distributed in silico drug discovery using VSM-G (Virtual Screening Manager for computational Grids)

  presentation

• Vincent Breton/Vinod Kasam (FR)
  In silico docking against malaria: the WISDOM initiative

  presentation

12:30 p.m. -

2:30 p.m.

Lunch - Poster session 3 (Special software/Database Session/Poster Nos 30, 33, 35-37)

2:30 p.m. -

3:30 p.m.

Keynote 11:

• Eric Maréchal (FR)
  In silico strategies for target discovery

  presentation

3:30 p.m.

Capacity building Session (chair: Win Hide, SANBI)

• Anne Corval, CNRS (Pretoria Office)
  Perspectives of the Africa – France cooperation in bioinformatics

  Open session on Capacity Building (with Tea break)

6:00 p.m.

Conference Dinner: "African Paradise-Safari Park Hotel"

SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS (ILRI CAMPUS)
Transport leaves icipe (DIGC) at 08.00 am, returns from ILRI
at 17.00 pm on 1st June and 16.00 pm on 2nd June

9:00 a.m. -

5:30 p.m.

Amos Bairoch (CH)

9:00 a.m. -

12:30 p.m.

Matthew Berriman (UK)
Artemis: A DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool
Artemis Comparison Tool (ACT)

2:00 p.m. -

4:00 p.m.

Karyn Mégy (UK)
VectorBase