We welcome Dr. Yana Bromberg, Dr. Nicola Mulder and Dr. Wolgang Huber as Keynote speakers!
- Friday, July 23: Start: 8 UTC end: 14:25 UTC (Day 1)
- Saturday, July 24: 14 UTC end: 20:50 UTC (Day 2)
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| Friday, July 23th | ||||
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| Start | End | Event | Title | Presenter | 
| 8:00 | 8:30 | Introduction | ||
| 8:30 | 8:45 | Oral presentation 1 | Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial single cell analysis | Giovanni Palla | 
| 8:45 | 9:00 | Oral presentation 2 | Computational classification of pathological stages of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma using DNA methylation | Arsalan Riaz | 
| 09:00 | 09:10 | Break | ||
| 09:10 | 09:15 | Flash talk poster - 1 | Using a network-based approach to prioritize miRNAs with putative roles in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas (HNSCC) | Laiba Shah | 
| 09:15 | 09:20 | Flash talk poster - 2 | Data-driven identification of structural patterns associated with RNA binding in RNA Recognition Motif domains | Hrishikesh Dhondge | 
| 09:20 | 09:25 | Flash talk poster - 3 | Molecular Docking of Dantrolene and High-Throughput Screening for Novel Inhibitors of Ryanodine Receptor 2 | Cemil Can Saylan | 
| 09:25 | 09:40 | Sponsor time | ||
| 09:40 | 09:55 | Oral presentation 3 | Homology Modelling and Structural Comparison of Three dimensional protein structures of selected variants of CYP3A4 | Christianah Omotoso | 
| 09:55 | 10:10 | Oral presentation 4 | Network analysis of DEGs with putative roles in neuronal development under microgravity conditions | Quratulain Danish | 
| 10:10 | 10:40 | Poster Panel Session & Networking | ||
| 10:40 | 10:45 | Flash talk poster - 4 | Drug repositioning for Mucopolysaccharidoses based on systems biology data | Gerda Cristal Villalba Silva | 
| 10:45 | 10:50 | Flash talk poster - 5 | A framework to discover the genomic risks of Alzheimer's disease | Grace Ko | 
| 10:50 | 10:55 | Flash talk poster - 6 | GeneCodis 4: Expanding the modular enrichment analysis to regulatory elements. | Adrian Garcia- Moreno | 
| 10:55 | 11:10 | Oral presentation 5 | StellarPGx: A Nextflow Pipeline for Calling Star Alleles in Cytochrome P450 Genes | David Twesigomwe | 
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Oral presentation 6 | The gut microbiota’s influence in the development of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders | Natasha Kitchin | 
| 11:25 | 12:10 | Keynote talk 1 | Doing great (in) computational biology- effective practices, open science, open source, and community | Dr. Wolfgang Huber | 
| 12:10 | 12:20 | Break | ||
| 12:20 | 13:05 | RSGs Global Leadership Meeting | ||
| 13:05 | 14:25 | Social event | ||
| Saturday, July 24th | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Event | Title | Presenter | 
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Introduction | ||
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Oral presentation 7 | Fast approximate shortest hyperpaths for inferring pathways in cell signaling hypergraphs | Spencer Krieger | 
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Oral presentation 8 | Deep Learning Improves Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Using RNA- Based Variants | Ali Al-Fatlawi | 
| 15:00 | 15:45 | Keynote talk 2 | Building capacity and resources to enable genomic medicine in Africa | Dr. Nicola Mulder | 
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | 16:05 | Flash talk poster - 7 | Evolutionary stability of receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein | Brenda Carolina | 
| 16:05 | 16:10 | Flash talk poster - 8 | Prediction of cancer mutation states across multiple data modalities reveals the utility and redundancy of gene expression and DNA methylation | Jake Crawford | 
| 16:10 | 16:15 | Flash talk poster - 9 | Combining RNA and DNA short sequencing reads to assembly the mitochondrial genomes of flatworm parasites of fish | Victor Hugo Caña Bozada | 
| 16:15 | 16:35 | Sponsor time | ||
| 16:35 | 16:50 | Oral presentation 9 | Causative variant prioritization from whole-exome sequencing patient data: a benchmarking of bioinformatics tools | Eva Tosco-Herrera | 
| 16:50 | 17:05 | Oral presentation 10 | Immunoinformatic selection of potential epitopes in Bordetella pertussis | Thalía Silvestre | 
| 17:05 | 17:50 | Keynote talk 3 | Decoding the DNA blueprints of molecular functionality | Dr. Yana Bromberg | 
| 17:50 | 18:50 | Poster Panel Session & Networking | ||
| 18:50 | 18:55 | Flash talk poster - 10 | Reverse vaccination approach for the in silico design of a new vaccine candidate against dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) and specific to the Peruvian population | Victor Cornejo | 
| 18:55 | 19:00 | Flash talk poster - 11 | Metabiome: a flexible and modular pipeline for metagenomic analysis | Cristian Grisales-Vargas | 
| 19:00 | 19:05 | Flash talk poster - 12 | Exploring the Interpretability of Neural Networks for Phenotype Classification: A Case Study in Human Kidney Cortex Cells | Thomas Chen | 
| 19:05 | 19:20 | Oral presentation 11 | Spatial-Temporal variability of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and its effect in COVID-19 disease outbreaks | Cynthia Elizabeth Castillo-Silva | 
| 19:20 | 19:35 | Oral presentation 12 | Comprehensive virtual screening of 4.8k flavonoids reveals novel insights into allosteric inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 MPRO | Gabriel Jiménez- Avalos | 
| 19:35 | 20:15 | Closing words, awards | ||