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Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (5th edition)
7-8 March 2024, Leuven, Belgium
Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (5th edition)
Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (5th edition)
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Alexander Botzki
Stein Aerts
Anastassia Vorobieva
Kris Laukens
Liesbet Peeters
Britta Velten
Evy Vierstraete
In 2016 VIB launched a series of Bioinformatics conferences as part of the VIB conference series. Because of the increasing importance of bioinformatics in medical and agriculture science today and inspired on the success of the past editions, VIB is organizing the 5th edition of this event on 7-8 March 2024.
Since the launch of this event the bioinformatics field has changed enormously. The analysis and the interpretation of the huge amount of data produced in life sciences research today sets high standards and needs for bioinformatics tools & software.
18 internationally renowned speakers will present their recent scientific findings in applied bioinformatics. They will shed light on the future perspectives of their research during the following plenary sessions:
- Personalized medicine and clinical bioinformatics
- From genome to function
- From single cell to organism
- Synthetic biology and structural bioinformatics
Next to the invited speakers the program includes slots for short talks selected from the abstracts and poster sessions. The reception with Belgian beers and the conference dinner offer additional opportunities to interact and meet potential new collaborators.
Training sessions on 6 March
VIB will organize the following training sessions preceding the conference:
- Apply Scop3PTM web-interface to understand PTMs;
- Apply MutationExplorer to study mutation of proteins and visualise their energetic impact;
- Geometric Deep Learning for Protein Structure Data with PyTorch Lightning.
Travel grants
We offer 4 travel grants to international junior scientists, which will reimburse travel costs up to 400 Euros. The deadline to participate is 14 December 2023.
Host City: Leuven
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Confirmed speakers
Program
Day 1 - Thursday, 07 March, 2024
08:30
09:00
Registration and coffee
09:00
09:15
Welcome
09:15
12:30
Plenary session 1: Personalized medicine and clinical bioinformatics
09:15
09:45
Large Scale Analysis of Observational Health Data in Europe.
Peter Rijnbeek
Erasmus University Medical Center, NL
09:45
10:15
Using artificial intelligence to decode the human T-cell repertoire
Pieter Meysman
University of Antwerp, BE
10:15
10:45
AI in service of rare disease research - the oligogenic story
Tom Lenaerts
ULB, VUB, BE
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Synthetic genomics uncovers the design rules of lineage-specific enhancers in hematopoietic differentiation
Lars Velten
Centre for Genomic Regulation, ES
11:45
12:15
Building 3D single-cell atlases
Barbara Engelhardt
Stanford University/Gladstone Institutes, US
12:15
12:30
Identifying Effects of Disease on Single-Cells with Domain-Invariant Generative Modeling
Abdul Moeed
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DE
Selected from abstracts
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster session
14:30
17:30
Plenary session 2: From genome to function
14:30
15:00
Machine learning approaches for single cell data integration and regulatory network inference
Uwe Ohler
MDC Berlin, DE
15:00
15:30
Multidimensional mutational fitness and stability assays reveal drug-resistant DHFR variants.
Amelie Stein
University Copenhagen, DK
15:30
15:45
An Atlas to shed light into the dark matter of the Protein Universe
Joana Pereira
Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH; SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, CH
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
MINI-AC: exploring plants cis-regulatory landscape to infer gene regulatory networks
Selected from abstracts
Nicolás Manosalva Pérez
Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, BE; Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, BE
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
17:00
ML-enabled Genetic Analysis of High-Content Phenotypes
Paolo Casale
Heimholtz Munich, DE
17:00
17:30
Deep learning models of gene regulation and immune cell differentiation
Sara Mostafavi
University of Washington, US
17:30
18:30
Reception
18:30
22:00
Guided tour + Conference dinner
Additional fee
Day 2 - Friday, 08 March, 2024
08:45
09:15
Coffee
09:15
12:30
Plenary session 3: From Single cell to organism
09:15
09:45
Learning cell identities from single cell data
Ahmed Mahfouz
Leiden University Medical Center, NL
09:45
10:15
Data analytical approaches for high resolution spatial transcriptomics data
Shila Ghazanfar
The University of Sydney, AU
10:15
10:45
Advancing spatial and single-cell metabolomics with machine learning, big data analysis, and cloud computing
Theodore Alexandrov
EMBL, DE
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Mapping the rules of glioblastoma with integrated single cell and spatial genomics.
Omer Bayraktar
Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
11:45
12:15
Using spatial chromatin organisation for understanding cis-regulatory logic of cellular decision-making in health and disease
Valeriya Malysheva
VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology, BE
12:15
12:30
Harpy: scalable and interactive spatial multi-omics analysis
Benjamin Rombaut
Data Mining and Modelling for Biomedicine, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, BE; Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster session
14:30
17:30
Plenary session 4: Synthetic biology & structural bioinfo
14:30
15:00
De novo protein and enzyme design with unsupervised language models
Noelia Ferruz
Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), ES
15:00
15:30
Expanding the space of functional proteins using deep learning
Bruno Correia
EPFL, CH
15:30
15:45
Synthetic design of overlapping genes using deep generative models of protein sequence
Gun Woo Byeon
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, US
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
A study on experimental bias in post-translational modification predictors
Jasper Zuallaert
VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, BE; Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, BE
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
17:00
Protein-ligand complex prediction - Are we there yet?
Janani Durairaj
University of Basel, CH
17:00
17:30
What are protein language models learning to do?
Sergey Ovchinnikov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
17:30
17:45
Closing words
Organizing committee
Alexander Botzki
VIB Technologies, BE
Stein Aerts
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
Anastassia Vorobieva
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, BE
Kris Laukens
University of Antwerp, BE
Liesbet Peeters
Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED) and Data Science Institute of UHasselt, BE
Britta Velten
Heidelberg University, DE
Evy Vierstraete
VIB Headquarters, BE
Abstracts
Poster information
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!
If you're not registered before 8 February 2024, your abstract will be excluded from the abstract list and you will not have the chance to present your work at the conference.
The full list of abstracts will be available on 22-02-2024 until 07-06-2024
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 22-02-2024 until 07-06-2024
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
