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Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (4th edition)

10-11 March 2022, Leuven, Belgium
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Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (4th edition)

Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (4th edition)
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VIB is monitoring the pandemic situation closely. If VIB needs to cancel the live event, you will have the chance to join the virtual event or to get your ticket reimbursed.

Bioinformatics has quickly become an integral part of life sciences research by enabling innovative computational approaches in an increasingly data-dense environment.

Inspired by the sold-out editions in 2016, 2018, and 2020, VIB (a non-profit life sciences research institute) is organizing this fourth edition to highlight recent developments in bioinformatics research, and to showcase its impact in medical, agricultural, and biotechnological research.

Nationally and internationally renowned speakers will present recent scientific findings in applied bioinformatics. They will shed light on the future perspectives of their research in the following plenary sessions:

  • Image analysis
  • Single cell analysis
  • Proteomics and metabolomics
  • Data integration


Besides an inspiring scientific program, conference participants will have ample networking opportunities during poster sessions and the conference dinner.

Information for poster submissions:
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. All accepted poster submissions will have a chance to win the poster prize!

Live & Virtual tickets
Next to the live tickets, we will provide virtual tickets. A virtual registration includes access to all of the plenary talks (livestreamed and on demand) and facility to submit questions.

Attending a VIB Conference safely in times of COVID-19
VIB Conferences will follow the rules set up by the Belgium Government, you can read all the details regarding attending a VIB Conference here.

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Confirmed speakers

Florian Jug
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Florian Jug

Florian Jug

Research Group Leader and Head of Facility Fondazione Human Technopole, IT
Ziv Bar-Joseph
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Ziv Bar-Joseph

Ziv Bar-Joseph

Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, US

Program

Day 1 - Thursday, 10 March, 2022

08:30
09:05
Registration & welcome coffee
09:05
09:15
Welcome word
09:15
12:35
Session 1: Image Analysis
09:15
09:45
Image Segmentation with little training data
09:45
10:15
Dealing with Big Data in Volume Electron Microscopy
10:15
10:45
Less labeling, more biology. Towards less supervision in machine learning for bioimage informatics
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Collaborative analysis of big multimodal imaging data with Cytomine web platform
11:45
12:15
Microscopy Image Restoration and Downstream Analysis - recent improvements and hopes for the future

Florian Jug

Research Group Leader and Head of Facility Fondazione Human Technopole, IT
12:15
12:30
A critical assessment of the somatic mutations predicted from histopathological slides

Marija Pizurica

Ghent university, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:30
12:35
Set-up of a Single Cell Core facility at VIB
12:35
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster Session 1
14:30
17:30
Session 2: Single Cell Analysis
14:30
15:00
Studying development using single cell time series data

Ziv Bar-Joseph

Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, US
15:00
15:30
scMET: Bayesian modelling of DNA methylation heterogeneity at single cell resolution
15:30
16:00
Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell and spatial data science
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
16:45
SIRV: Spatial inference of RNA velocity at the single-cell resolution

Tamim Abdelaal

Leiden University Medical Center, NL; Delft University of Technology, NL
Selected from abstracts
16:45
17:00
MultiNicheNet: studying cell-cell communication from multi-sample multi-condition single-cell transcriptomics data

Robin Browaeys

VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
Selected from abstracts
17:00
17:30
Deep Geometric and Topological Representations for Extracting Insights from Biomedical Data
17:30
18:30
Reception
18:30
20:00
Social Activity
20:00
22:00
Conference Dinner

Day 2 - Friday, 11 March, 2022

08:45
09:15
Welcome coffee
09:15
10:45
Session 3: Proteomics and Metabolomics
09:15
09:45
Understanding the functional role of the intrinsically disordered proteome
09:45
10:15
Leveraging Public Untargeted Metabolomics Data to Propagate Annotations to Millions of MS/MS Spectra
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Computational analysis of tumor single-cell sequencing data
11:45
12:15
Defining and FAIRifying Exposomics Chemical Space for Enhanced Data Interpretation
12:15
12:30
Identification of thermotolerance phosphomarkers through data integration for sustainable Soybean protein production

Lisa Van den Broeck

North carolina state university, US
Selected from abstracts
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster Session 2
14:30
17:30
Session 4: Data Integration
14:30
15:00
Supporting machine learning with biological knowledge to extract insight from multi-omics data
15:00
15:30
Integrative analysis of multi-omics data
15:30
15:45
Network-based analysis to identify pivotal genes involved in spatial specific roots response to mechanical constrains

Anastazija Dimitrova

Universita degli Studi del Molise, IT
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
Benchmarking Deconvolution Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics Data

Chananchida Sang-aram

VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE; Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, BE
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
17:00
Plant science data management and integration: the heterogeneity and dispersion challenge
17:00
17:30
Computational strategies to decipher gene regulatory programs from single-cell multi-omics data
17:30
17:45
Closing words

Organizing committee

Célia Miguel

University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences & BioISI, PT

Abstracts

The full list of abstracts will be available on 24-02-2022 until 11-04-2022
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.

Attendees

The full list of attendees will be available on 24-02-2022 until 11-04-2022
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.