BoostUrCAreer Doctoriales 2021

As part of the BoostUrCAreer project, implemented at Université Côte d’Azur with support from the European Commission, the Conseil Region Sud-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and IDEX UCAJEDI, we are delighted to announce our 2021 Doctoriales event. This event is a full-day virtual program targeting an audience of graduate students, researchers, and professionals, with the goal of sharing ideas and fostering discussions around the topic of E-Health, with a focus on applying data science to further healthcare delivery and medical research.
Platform

We will be using Gather Town as a platform for our event. It is a web-based video calling experience that mimics in-person interactions in a physical space. It combines video-calling with a 2D map, letting you walk around with your avatar and talk to other people next to you. Feel free to try out the demo, on https://gather.town/, to get accommodated with the platform.

Agenda

BoostUrCAreer Doctoriales 2021 Agenda
April 21^st 2021
All times written in CET (UTC+2)

Morning Sessions

•              08:50 - 09:00  Welcome
•              09:00 - 10:30 Technologies Impacting the Delivery of Healthcare
               Alessia Paglialonga, CNR, National Research Council, Italy
               Frank Delaplace, Paris-Saclay University, Univ. Evry - IBISC, France
               Khan Muhammad, Sejong University, South Korea

Digital and communications technologies represent a major change in the way we interact with the healthcare system, with the use of telemedicine as a tool to connect patients to providers increasing in response to the ongoing pandemic. Virtual office visits, however, are far from the only mark being made on the delivery of care. Tools for online diagnosis, transmission of imaging data in the Internet of Medical Things, and personalized medicine can all leverage the potential of new technologies to advance the medical system. Join us to learn from our expert speakers about how their research promises to shape the future of patient care in a more efficient, accessible direction.
 

•             10:30 - 12:00 Modeling Human Bodies: Physiology and Form
               Pauline Gerus, Université Côte d'Azur - LAMHESS, France
               Anna Maria Bianchi, Université Côte d'Azur - LJAD, France
               Thomas Laporte, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The complexity of the interconnected systems that is the human body is what gives medicine and adjacent health-related fields their richness, while simultaneously rendering their study a complicated proposition. Fortunately, modern techniques allow investigators to capture key features of the body's complexity through mathematical and numerical models, opening the door to insights about the underlying physiology and disease processes. The information encoded in medical imaging and recording techniques, with the right know-how, can be transformed into representations of the anatomic and physiologic underpinnings of human bodies and their pathologic states. Join us to learn how our panel of researchers use models to shed light on the inner workings of our bodies.

Afternoon Sessions

•             13:00 - 15:00 Physics of Life
               Ville Mustonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
               Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
               Joachim Krug, Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
               Marco Caruso, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

The physics of living organisms is a field that spans a broad range of contexts. Interpretation of biological data in the context of a physics-based understanding of the system is a challenge, but is fundamental to advancing our knowledge in these domains. From understanding bacterial antibiotic resistance enzymes, to emergent phenomena playing out in eukaryotic cells, to assessing the movement of an entire organism at the human level, exploring biological processes requires starting from a physics-based understanding of the system under investigation. Join our panel of speakers to learn about their diverse areas of research in this domain.
 

•              14:30 - 16:00 Translating Machine Learning to Healthcare Settings
                Vahideh Reshadat, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
                Michael Walsh, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, USA
                Marina Codari, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

The application of machine learning to healthcare has been long promised, but has been slow to deliver. The vast quantities of data surrounding patients, tests, and tissue samples offer a rich potential target, but the hurdle lies in adapting these approaches to the idiosyncrasies of the medical system and its practitioners. The reams of clinical and lab data gathered by providers are hidden away in text format within electronic medical records, and must be appropriately extracted. The information available via medical imaging must be harvested via approaches suited to clinically-relevent analysis. New diagnostic technologies that produce large, noisy datasets must be analyzed in ways that can be meaningfully communicated to the medical practitioners responsible for its analysis. Join us to learn from our panel of speakers about how they tackle these challenges in different areas of research.

Our speakers

Alessia Paglialonga, PhD

Institution: CNR, National Research Council, Italy
Topic:
A new system for widespread hearing screening at a distance
Session: 09:00 - 10:30 CET

Pr. Franck Delaplace

Institution:
Paris-Saclay University, Univ. Evry IBISC, France
Topic: Network Fate Controllability
Session: 09:00 - 10:30 CET

Khan Muhammad, Assistant Professor

Institution: Sejong University, South Korea
Topic: Technologies Impacting the Delivery of Healthcare: Introduction and Outlooks
Session: 09:00 - 10:30 CET

Pauline Gerus, Lecturer

Institution: Université Côte d'Azur - LAMHESS, France
Topic: Neuromusculoskeletal modeling for clinical applications
Session: 10:30 - 12:00 CET

Pr. Anna Maria Bianchi

Institution: Politecnico di Milano - Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Italy
Topic: Stress and emotions: modeling through physiological signals
Session: 10:30 - 12:00 CET

Thomas Laporte, MSc

Institution: Université Côte d'Azur - LJAD, France
Topic: End-to-end algorithm to extract respiratory system from CT-scan
Session: 10:30 - 12:00 CET

Pr. Joachim Krug

Institution: Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
Topic: Evolutionary pathways to antibiotic resistance
Session: 13:00 - 15:00 CET

Pr. Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy

Institution: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
 Bangalore, India
Topic: Morphogenetic Patterns: Signaling, Mechanics and Geometry
Session: 13:00 - 15:00 CET

Eng. Marco Caruso

Institution: Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Topic: Measuring human movement using wearable magneto-inertial sensors: from the theory to the unconstrained assessment
Session: 13:00 - 15:00 CET

Pr. Ville Mustonen

Institution: University of Helsinki, Finland
Topic: Using computational methods and evolutionary theory to combat drug resistance
Session: 13:00 - 15:00 CET

Vahideh Reshadat, PhD

Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Topic: Text analytics in healthcare using machine learning approaches: a case study
Session: 14:30 - 16:00 CET

Michael Walsh, PhD

Institution: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, USA
Topic: IR spectroscopic imaging: improving disease diagnosis and prediction of patient outcome
Session: 14:30 - 16:00 CET

Marina Codari, PhD

Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Topic: Deep learning for aortic dissection surveillance
Session: 14:30 - 16:00 CET

Registration

The BoostUrCAreer Doctoriales 2021 are over. Stay tuned for next year!