Monday, June 19, 2023
09:00-11:00
Registration, Lobby
11:00-11:30
Opening Ceremony, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
11:30-12:30
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Ewan Birney (online)
Big Data in Biology: How EMBL delivers big data for biology, and some highlights of its application to human disease
12:30-13:30
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Kristel Van Steen
A tale of two stories: data-driven precision medicine and precision public health
13:30-14:30
Foody Coffee, Lobby
14:30-15:30
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Carlo Cannistraci
Machine intelligence and network science for complex systems big data analysis
15:30-16:00
Sponsors exibition viewing, Lobby
16:00-17:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Single cell omics, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
16:00-16:30 Vladimir Brusic, Prediction of cell types using single-cell mRNA profiles
16:30-16:45 Uršula Prosenc, Exploration of Pharmacogenomic Biomarkers in Chronic Immune Diseases Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing16:45-17:00 Nevena Milivojević, Single cell 3` transcriptome profiling
17:00-17:15 Sponsor session 10X GenomicsComputational systems biology, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
16:00-16:30 Konstantin Severinov, Stochastic variation of intracellular amounts of restriction-modification enzymes allows phages to overcome the RM defence16:30-16:50 Marko Djordjevic, Modulating Horizontal Gene Transfer through Bistability in the Dynamics of Bacterial Restriction-Modification Systems16:50-17:10 Bogdan Kirillov, The use of Active Machine Learning for Protospacer-Adjacent Motif recovery in Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems17:30-19:30
20:30-23:30
Welcome Coctail, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
08:00-09:00
Registration, Lobby
09:00-10:00
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Peter Tompa
Targeting LLPS in disease: a new modality in drug development
10:00-11:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Omics data, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
10:00-10:30 Natasa Przulj, Omics Data Fusion for Understanding Molecular Complexity Enabling Precision Medicine10:30-11:00 Noel Malod-Dognin, Exploiting the linear organisation of omics network embedding spacesTheoretical biology, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
10:00-10:30 Elena Fimmel, Circular Codes in the Genetic Information10:30-11:00 Alex Bateman, Using AI/ML to transform molecular biology databasesMeet the expert session, Hall Lavander
COST Action CA21169 meeting, Hall Aristotel
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break, Lobby
11:30-13:30
NGS Challenge, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
13:30-14:30
Lunch, Restaurant
14:30-15:30
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Sean Mooney
15:30-16:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Poster session with flash talk, Hall Lavander
Jovana Dobreva, Analysis of Long COVID Phenotypes and their Impact on Mental Health and Daily Functioning: Insights from Twitter
Marianna Lucafo, Transcriptomic profiling of white blood cells reveals new insights into the molecular mechanisms of thalidomide in children with inflammatory bowel disease
Marija Mijovic, Potentially relevant variants of unknown significance in NGS-tested patients with suspected skeletal dysplasia
Marina Popovic Krneta, Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Occult Lymph Node Metastasis in T1-T2 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Milan Stefanovic, Pathway analysis of CD8+ T cell transcriptome in glioblastoma patients reveals multiple sclerosis signaling pathway as the top rated upregulated disease pathway in tumor infiltrating cells
Nevena Ciric, Methodology, performance and retrainability survey of intrinsic disorder predictors
Nikola Kotur, Genome-wide association analysis for severe COVID-19 in Serbian population
Stefan Kapunac, Analysis of nucleotide sequence repeats in coronaviruses
Vladimir Gašić, In Silico analysis and prediction of novel pharmacogenomic markers of pediatric ALL treatment
COST Action CA21169 meeting, Hall Aristotel
16:30-17:00
Coffe break, Lobby
17:00-18:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
17:00-17:25 Vladimir Uversky (online), From multifunctionality to polypathogenicity with intrinsic disorder17:25-17:50 Alexandre de Brevern, An agnostic analysis of the human AlphaFold2 proteome using local protein conformations17:50-18:05 Milan Senćanski, Dehydrins in the service of protecting the DNA helix from the aspect of molecular dynamics (MD)18:05-18:20 Marija Vidović, Integration of differential transcriptomic and proteomic data in hydrated and desiccated leaves of Ramonda serbica Panc.Spatial Transcriptomics, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
17:00-17:25 Javier Batista Perez, Stereo-seq: Large Field of View-Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics at Nanoscale Resolution17:25-17:50 Shuangsang Fang, The complete solution and interpretation algorithms for large field-of-view and high-resolution spatial transcriptomics17:50-18:05 Maria Louise Elkjær, Cell-type-specific mechanistic drivers of progressive multiple sclerosis lesions18:05-18:15 Sponsor session 10X GenomicsMeet the expert session
COST Action CA21169 meeting, Hall Aristotel
18:30-20:30
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
08:00-09:00
Registration, Lobby
09:00-10:00
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Yuriy Orlov
Bioinformatics education course on gene networks reconstruction using online tools
10:00-11:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Gene expression regulation and genetic code, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
10:00-10:30 Vladimir Babenko (online), Complexity driven evolution of Alternative splicing10:30-10:45 Lena Maria Hackl, Alternative splicing impacts microRNA regulation within coding regionsWORKSHOP, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
10:00-11:00 Andrea Gelemanović: Challenges and opportunities of using publicly available RNA-seq data
This workshop is designed to introduce the participants to the various challenges and opportunities when using publicly available RNA-seq data. It will cover the theoretical background of the main concepts of RNA-seq data analysis, where participants will be guided through the entire process from acquiring raw RNA sequences to differential gene expression analysis, followed by various options for follow-up analyses. Publicly available data repositories with a focus on transcriptomics data will be discussed. Participants will get a theoretical introduction on how to use various software and web-based platforms and tools to perform their own RNA-seq data analyses. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about their own RNA-seq projects.
Computational systems biology, Hall Lavander
10:00-10:30 Oxana Galzitskaya, To be folded, to be unfolded or to be aggregated with important functions: application of the directed coaggregation mechanism to combat bacterial communities10:30-11:00 Mikhail S. Gelfand, Bioinformatics and evolution of non-model organismsCOST Action CA21169 meeting, Hall Aristotel
11:00-12:00
Coffee Break with Poster viewing, Lobby & Hall Lavander
Ahmed Musa, Machine learning-based data correlation between scanning electron microscopy images and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy profiles
Alessia Norbedo, PACSIN2 modifies miRNAs in extracellular vesicles, modulating thiopurine response
Ana Pantelic, Two contrasting late embryogenesis abounded protein family groups of Ramonda serbica Panc.
Andjelo Beletic , Mining for the data about glycosylation in the bovines-the analysis of the recently published studies
Aydin Akbudak, Genetic Complexity and Synteny Analysis of Castanea Genomes: Unveiling the Significance of Chestnut Species in Ecological and Genomic Perspectives
Barbara Jenko Bizjan, Different approaches in microRNA analysis
Bojana Ilic, Combined experimental and theoretical study of Type-II toxin-antitoxin system response to antibiotics
Danijela Drakulic, Application of principal component analysis (PCA) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in analysis of articulatory characteristics of phonemes of children with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
Dejana Milic, Efficient bioinformatics workflow for de novo transcriptome assembly of Pelargonium zonale
Despina Miseva/Jovana Dobreva, Exploring Changes in Diagnoses during the COVID-19 Era: Comparative Analysis
Dusan Radojevic, Shotgun metagenomics reveals gut microbiota features associated with the efficacy of myeloid derived suppressor cells in the prevention of neuroinflammation
Iva Pruner, Data mining for long-non coding RNAs deregulated in colon cancer through analysis of Gene Expression Omnibus database
Ivan Tanasijević, Comparative study of in silico protein design techniques
Ivana Galic, Root colonization ability of herbicide-resistant PGP bacteria evaluated by 16S rRNA metabarcoding
Jelena Kusic Tisma, Profiling Pre-Replication Complex Mutations in Cancer
Jovana Aranđelović, Deciphering the reward-related impulsivity domains in rats: The big data study of historical control
Lazar Vasovic, The past, the present, and the future of RNA secondary structure prediction
Marija Atanaskovic, In silico pre-selection of β-glucosidase gene for heterologous recombinant expression
Marina Parr, Elongation factor P (-like) protein and polyproline motifs
Milica Ciric, Groundwater and soil as a reservoir for polyurethane-degrading bacteria
Mirjana Novkovic, Genomic Surveillance and Phylogenetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Serbia: Insights into Evolutionary Dynamics and Genetic Diversity
Nika Marolt , Possible role of estrogen metabolism and aldo-keto reductase activity in chemoresistance of ovarian cancer
Polina Iarema and Vasilisa Turkina, Computer analysis of glioma gene network structure
Slobodan Davidovic, Evaluating ND1 and Cytb mitochondrial genes as markers for diversity analysis of protected White-tailed eagle species from Serbia
Vasilije Matic , Energy and information exchange between “donor” and “molecular bridge” structures: non adiabatic polaron model
Yury A. Barbitoff, Seeking an optimal variant calling pipeline for medical genetics
12:00-13:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Bioinformatics databases and algorithms, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
12:00-12:30 Travis Gagie, Pangenomic Alignment: Strings plus Graphs12:30-13:00 Evgeina K Kriventseva, Advancing Genomics with OrthoDB, BUSCO, and the LEM Framework13:00-13:15 Junli Xu, AI-powered framework to predict the toxicity of microplasticsWORKSHOP, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
12:00-13:00 Andrea Gelemanović: Challenges and opportunities of using publicly available RNA-seq data
This workshop is designed to introduce the participants to the various challenges and opportunities when using publicly available RNA-seq data. It will cover the theoretical background of the main concepts of RNA-seq data analysis, where participants will be guided through the entire process from acquiring raw RNA sequences to differential gene expression analysis, followed by various options for follow-up analyses. Publicly available data repositories with a focus on transcriptomics data will be discussed. Participants will get a theoretical introduction on how to use various software and web-based platforms and tools to perform their own RNA-seq data analyses. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about their own RNA-seq projects.
Computational biology of COVID-19, Hall Lavander
12:00-12:30 Jose Vilar, Inverting convolutional neural networks for super-resolution identification of regime changes in epidemiological time series12:30-12:50 Sofija Markovic, Machine learning approach in inferring main population-level COVID-19 risk factors12:50-13:10 Andjela Rodic, Beyond the Global Health Security Index: A Machine Learning Approach to Analyzing the Official COVID-19 Deaths and Excess Deaths Data13:10-13:30 Saša Malkov, Clustering and classification of SARS-COV-2 isolates using RSCUCOST Action CA21169 meeting, Hall Aristotel
13:30-14:30
Lunch, Restaurant
14:30-22:00
Thursday, June 22, 2023
08:00-09:00
Registration, Lobby
09:00-10:00
BIO4 presentation, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
9:25-9:33 Dr. Goran Jovanović – Assistant Director for Science, Instite of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade
9:32-9:40 Dr. Matija Zlatar – Senior Researcher and the Coordinator of the Institute’s Transformation Team within the SAIGE project, University of Belgrade, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, National institute of the republic of Serbia
9:40-9:48 Dr. Sanja Brdar – Head of the Information Technology Center, BioSens Institute
9:48-9:56 Jelena Petrović – Assistant Director for Innovation Entrepreneurship Development. Science and Technology Park Belgrade
10:00-11:00
Panel: Serbia’s resources for storage and analyses of genetic data, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break, Lobby
11:30-12:00
Panel: Serbia’s resources for storage and analyses of genetic data, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
12:00-12:30
Sponsor Session Huawei, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
12:30-13:30
Poster session with flash talk, Hall Lavander
Bojana Banovic, Impact of different mapping tools on detection of small RNAs in bacterial outer membrane vesicles
Bojana Josic, Integrated relational database of human protein-protein interactions
Iva Sabolic, Developing bioinformatics pipeline for processing environmental DNA metabarcoding sequencing data
Ivana Prodic, The use of tryptic food protein digests data in public proteomic repositories to assess the effects of chemical and post-translational modifications on digestion outcomes
Jovana Curcic, Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Community and Isolation of Representative Strains from Vranjska Banja Hot Spring, Serbia
Katarina Virijevic, Numerical and Biological Modeling Approach in the Analysis of the Cancer Viability and Apoptosis
Manja Božić, Seven miRNAs potentially included in the chilling response of maize plants in early stages of development
Marija Vidovic, Protein structural differences in Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 of two Heterogynis species as a new approach for species delimitation
Marko Tumbas, Determinants of CRISPR array non-canonical adaptation mechanism
13:30-14:30
Lunch, Restaurant
14:30-16:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Computational Bioengineering, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
14:30-14:55 Themis Exarchos (online), Development of hybrid and optimized deep learning classifiers for speech recognition in tracheostomy patients: a case study14:55-15:20 Nenad Filipovic, Computational bioengineering for heart disease15:20-15:35 Bogdan Milicevic, Echocardiography-based Left Ventricle Cardiac Hypertrophy Simulations15:35-15:50 Aleksandra Vulovic, Application of classification algorithms for hip implant surface topographies15:50-16:05 Smiljana Tomasevic, Computational Modelling of Drug Effects on Cardiomyopathy and Analysis of Myocardial Work
AI/ML in biology and medicine, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
14:30-15:00 Anirvan Sengupta (online), A Similarity-based Normative Framework for Bio-plausible Neural Nets15:00-15:30 Mladen Nikolic, Some Applications of Graph-Based Machine Learning Methods on Biological Data15:30-15:45 Miloš Košprdić, Zero- and Few-Shot Machine Learning for Named Entity Recognition in Biomedical Texts15:45-16:00 Anđelka Zečević, Mapping of Disease Names to Disease Codes based on Natural Language Processing Techniques
Precision Medicne and Precision Pharmacology, Hall Lavander
14:30-14:55 George Patrinos, Computational tools and repositories for precision therapeutics in the post-genomic era14:55-15:20 Alexander Skupin, Multiomics Integration by Non-Negative Tri-Matrix Factorization Reveals New Target Genes in Parkinson’s Disease15:20-15:40 Andrea Gelemanovic, Can we use biobanks to study infectious diseases?
15:15-16:45
PHARMGENHUB thematic workshop, Hall Aristotel
15:15-15:25 Branka Zukić, PharmGenHUB in Western Balkan Project
15:25-15:40 Branka Zukić, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technology
15:40-16:00 Nikola Kotur, Bioinformatic preprocessing of NGS data: from raw data to genetic variants
16:20-16:40 Nikola Kotur, Bioinformatics resources in pharmacogenomics research
16:40-17:00 Vladimir Gasić, Interpretation of NGS Results: analysis of pharmacogenomics variants
16:00-17:00
Business coffee break, Hall Lavander
2. HealthLY
3. Baby FM
4. DIVS
5. CLM startap
6. Atfield
7. Veles Sense
8. Viabio
16:30-17:00
Coffe break, Lobby
17:00-18:00
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Predrag Radivojac (online)
A New Framework for the Use of Variant Interpretation Tools in Clinical Practice
18:45-20:00
20:30-23:30
Gala Diner, Restaurant “Kovač”
Friday, June 23, 2023
08:00-09:00
Registration, Lobby
09:00-10:00
Keynote lecture, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach
Privacy-preserving federated systems medicine
10:00-11:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
AI/ML in biology and medicine, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
10:00-10:20 Goran Rakocevic, Using AI to design antibodies10:20-10:40 Niklas Probul, Newest Advances on the FeatureCloud Platform for Federated Learning in Biomedicine10:40-11:00 Olga Tsoy, From protein-protein to isoform-isoform interactions: the toolkit to map alternative splicing to interactome11:00-11:20 Mhaned Oubounyt, Deciphering key regulatory networks and drug repurposing candidates through scRNAseq data analysis using SCANetSTREAMLINE thematic workshop, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
BirBI: Promotion of the Genomics Section, Hall Lavander
11:30-12:30
Coffee Break with Poster viewing, Lobby & Hall Lavander
Ahmed Musa, Machine learning-based data correlation between scanning electron microscopy images and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy profiles
Alessia Norbedo, PACSIN2 modifies miRNAs in extracellular vesicles, modulating thiopurine response
Ana Pantelic, Two contrasting late embryogenesis abounded protein family groups of Ramonda serbica Panc.
Andjelo Beletic , Mining for the data about glycosylation in the bovines-the analysis of the recently published studies
Aydin Akbudak, Genetic Complexity and Synteny Analysis of Castanea Genomes: Unveiling the Significance of Chestnut Species in Ecological and Genomic Perspectives
Barbara Jenko Bizjan, Different approaches in microRNA analysis
Bojana Ilic, Combined experimental and theoretical study of Type-II toxin-antitoxin system response to antibiotics
Danijela Drakulic, Application of principal component analysis (PCA) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in analysis of articulatory characteristics of phonemes of children with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
Dejana Milic, Efficient bioinformatics workflow for de novo transcriptome assembly of Pelargonium zonale
Despina Miseva/Jovana Dobreva, Exploring Changes in Diagnoses during the COVID-19 Era: Comparative Analysis
Dusan Radojevic, Shotgun metagenomics reveals gut microbiota features associated with the efficacy of myeloid derived suppressor cells in the prevention of neuroinflammation
Iva Pruner, Data mining for long-non coding RNAs deregulated in colon cancer through analysis of Gene Expression Omnibus database
Ivan Tanasijević, Comparative study of in silico protein design techniques
Ivana Galic, Root colonization ability of herbicide-resistant PGP bacteria evaluated by 16S rRNA metabarcoding
Jelena Kusic Tisma, Profiling Pre-Replication Complex Mutations in Cancer
Jovana Aranđelović, Deciphering the reward-related impulsivity domains in rats: The big data study of historical control
Lazar Vasovic, The past, the present, and the future of RNA secondary structure prediction
Marija Atanaskovic, In silico pre-selection of β-glucosidase gene for heterologous recombinant expression
Marina Parr, Elongation factor P (-like) protein and polyproline motifs
Milica Ciric, Groundwater and soil as a reservoir for polyurethane-degrading bacteria
Mirjana Novkovic, Genomic Surveillance and Phylogenetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Serbia: Insights into Evolutionary Dynamics and Genetic Diversity
Nika Marolt , Possible role of estrogen metabolism and aldo-keto reductase activity in chemoresistance of ovarian cancer
Polina Iarema and Vasilisa Turkina, Computer analysis of glioma gene network structure
Slobodan Davidovic, Evaluating ND1 and Cytb mitochondrial genes as markers for diversity analysis of protected White-tailed eagle species from Serbia
Vasilije Matic , Energy and information exchange between “donor” and “molecular bridge” structures: non adiabatic polaron model
Yury A. Barbitoff, Seeking an optimal variant calling pipeline for medical genetics
12:30-13:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Bioinformatics databases and algorithms, Hall Nikola Tesla 1
12:30-12:55 Jorge Duitama, An integrated platform for genome assembly, comparative genomics and management of genomic variation databases12:55-13:10 Andreas Maier, Drugst.One – A plug-and-play solution for online systems medicine and network-based drug repurposing13:10-13:20 Aleksandar Veljkovic, Semantic unification and search of bioinformatics databases13:20-13:30 Drenka Trivanović, Fatty Acid Data Analysis Unravels Skeletal Site and Age-Specific Features of Human Bone Marrow Adiposity
Precision medicine and Precision pharmacology, Hall Nikola Tesla 2
12:30-13:00 Andrea Ciliberto, Uncovering resistance to microtubule targeting drugs13:00-13:15 Klaudia Adamowicz, Online in silico validation of disease and gene sets, clusterings or subnetworks with DIGEST13:15-13:30 Michael Hartung, CADDIE – An online knowledge base for network-based mechanism exploration and drug repurposing in oncology
Genetic data, Hall Lavander
12:30-13:00 Ivan Jovanović, Exploring the impact of rare Copy Number Variants on miRNA genes in CAKUT: Insights from integrated bioinformatic analysis and experimental validation13:00-13:15 Dušan Ušjak, Using whole exome sequencing to explore genetic basis of unicuspid aortic valve disease13:15-13:30 Aleksandra Divac Rankov, Decoding Cystic Fibrosis Phenotype
13:30-14:30
Lunch, Restaurant
14:30-15:00
Closing ceremony
17:30-20:00
