Programme Schedule


*All timings are Istanbul Standard Time GMT+3

** Lunch on Day 3 will be a working lunch for those attending Workshop 2. The rest of the participants can proceed for lunch
Day 1
Tuesday, 11-10-2022
10:00 - 13:00 Registration of walk-in participants
Confirmation of registered participants
Confirmation of participants for Eduthon
10:00 - 12:00 Launching of the Eduthon (Only for the Eduthon participants)
In-person participants are guided to the conference hall
Virtual participants are invited to join Zoom link
Introduction of the event
Explain the rules and regulations
Bioinformatics Education Grand Challenge triggers are announced
Teams confirm the challenge they will choose
Teams decide their leaders
Moderators are assigned for each team
In-person participants are facilitated with a workspace
Virtual participants are split into breakout rooms
Teams start the Eduthon
12:00 - 12:50 Lunch
13:00 – 13:05 Inaugural remarks by Chair
Dr. Ayesha FATIMA
13:05 – 13:10 Welcome by BILSAB Director
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ziya DOYMAZ
13:10 – 13:20 Welcome by Bezmialem Vakif University Rector
Prof. Dr. Rümeyza KAZANCIOĞLU
13:20 – 14:00 Welcome by GOBLET Chairperson: The GOBLET Journey and where are we heading?
Dr. Celia van GELDER
14:05 – 14:45 Keynote Talk
Global Activities in Bioinformatics Training and Education
Prof. Dr. Nicola MULDER (Virtual)
Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Asif Khan
14:45 - 14:50 Break
14:50 - 16:00 Short talks and poster presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 – 17:15 Interactive Session: Computational Biology Education in Türkiye

Our Panelists:
Assist. Prof. Dr. Onur Serçinoğlu -- Gebze Technical University - Bioengineering Department

Assist. Prof. Dr. Sefer Baday – Applied Informatics Department, Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yeşim Aydın Son – Graduate School of Informatics, Medical Informatics, Middle Eastern Technical University

Moderated by:
Nilay Yönet from ISCB-RSG Türkiye
17:15 Closing of Day 1
17:15 - 19:00 Eduthon continues
Teams continue to work
Day 2
Wednesday, 12.10.2022
9:00 - 12:00 Eduthon continues
Teams continue to work
12:00 - 12:50 Lunch
13:00 – 13:05 Opening session
13:05 - 13:45 Keynote Talk
Bioinformatics Education Landscape in Turkey
by Yeşim Aydın SON (Virtual)
Session Chair: Dr. Caner Çağlar
13:45 - 13:50 Break
13:50 -15:00 Short talks and poster presentations
15:05 -16:05 The Bioinformatics Education Grand Challenge Eduthon
Presentation of Solutions

Session Chair: Javier De Las Rivas
Judges: Dr. Celia van Gelder
Dr. Eija Korpelainen
16:05 - 16:15 Break
16:15 -16:55 Keynote Talk
Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Bioinformatics Curriculum Design
by Russel SCHWARTZ
Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Asif Khan
17:15 -17:45 Closing of the main event of the Colloquium / Award Ceremony / Photo Session
Day 3
Thursday, 13.10.2022
10:00 -14:00 Workshop 1: Quantum Computing 101
Trainer: Ashar J. Malik
14:00 - 14:50 Lunch
14:00– 16:00 Workshop 2: Teaching how to FAIRify training materials
Trainers: Patricia Palagi, Celia van Gelder, Melissa Burke
16:00 - 17:00 Break
17:00 – 21:00 Workshop 3: Good practices for collaborative writing: stop working for the computer, make the computer work for you
Trainer: Andres Aravena

Workshop 4: Scientific Figure Design
Trainer: Gitanjali Yadav
21:00 Closing of workshop sessions Day 3
Day 4
Friday, 14.10.2022
09:00 – 11:30 Workshop 5: Introduction to Machine Learning for Biologists
Trainers: Sonika Tyagi, Harpreet Singh, Tyrone Chen, and Naima Vahab
12:00 - 12:50 Lunch
13:00– 19:00 GOBLET AGM (Private session)