Awards Winners

ISMB 2024 was an incredibly successful and memorable event! With over 1,900 participants from various countries, both in-person and online attendance, it was a diverse and engaging experience. The impressive number of talks, panel discussions, and posters shows the depth and breadth of scientific content covered during the conference. The Exhibition Hall, where participants could interact with exhibitors, provided a great opportunity for networking, job exploration and exploring new ideas and technologies. ISMB 2024 wouldn't be possible without the dedication and hard work of volunteers, and it's heartening to see their efforts being acknowledged. Plan now to join us in 2025 in Liverpool, England, July 20-24. ISMB/ECCB 2025 is a highlight of the summer for the scientific community, and the upcoming conference in Liverpool holds promising prospects for further scientific advancement and collaboration.

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

Award Winner
Charles Broadbent, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Deciphering High-order Structures in Spatial Transcriptomes with Graph-guided Tucker Decomposition

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Wikipedia Winners

1st prize (english)
Andrew Thompson
Jue Zhang
Julian Renton
Jonathan Reilly
Jake Costello
Imaging informatics

2nd prize (english)
Menaka Thambiraja
Shricharan Senthulkumar
Comparative genomics

3rd prize (english)
Jonah Fortkamp
Ilias Baktybek
Mihajlo Chonex
Jake Costello
Kyle Reynolds
Orphan gene

1st prize (non-english)
Andres Arrendondo Cruz
Cesar Augusto Aguilar Martinez
Shaday Guerrero Flores
Diana Oaxaca
Mineria genomica

2nd prize (non-english)
Mariela Arias
Grupo de genes metabolicos

3rd prize (non-english)
Jaime Salvador Lopez
Reagrupemiento

COSI Awards

Bio-ontologies COSI

Best Paper
Matthew Cannon (Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, United States)
Extracting Clinical Significance for Drug-Gene Interactions using FDA Label Packages

BioVis COSI

Osho Rawal, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Sacha Gnjatic, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Zeynep H. Gümüş, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
PRIMAVO: Precision Immune Monitoring Assay Visualization Online

CAMDA COSI

1st Prize
Patrick Smyth, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada
Using Gradient Boosting to Predict Health States from Composition and Function of the Gut Microbiome

2nd Prize
Zuzanna Karwowska, Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Microbiome time series data reveal predictable patterns of change

3rd Prize
Nelly Selem Mojica, Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas UNAM, Mexico
Integrating Taxonomic and Functional Features for Gut Microbiome Health Indexing

CompMS COSI

Best Talk
Lincoln Harris
Imputation of cancer proteomics data with a deep model that learns jointly from many datasets

Best Poster
Justin Sanders
A transformer model for de novo peptide sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data

EvolCompGen Awards

Best Long talk
Abigail Bunkum
SPICE: Probabilistic reconstruction of copy-number evolution in cancer

Honourable Mention
Mathieu Gascon
Simultaneously Building and Reconciling a Synteny Tree

Best Short talk
Evan Brenner
Predicting pathogen preferences and host adaptation by leveraging microbial genomics and machine learning

Honourable Mention
Felix Langschied
Evolutionary dynamics of microRNAs pinpoint innovations in the gene regulatory network of vertebrates

Best Poster
Camila Castillo-Vilcahuaman
Genomic Characterization of Bartonella Species Associated with Carrion's Disease: Insights into Evolution and Virulence

Honourable Mention
Henry Secaira-Morocho
Multi-copy phylogenetic marker genes increase the accuracy of species tree in prokaryotic species

HiTSeq Award

Best Poster
Nicolas Jacquin
K-mer Walking: An Efficient Reference-Free Algorithm for Flanking Sequence Reconstruction

Best Presentation (tie)
Vikram Shivakumar, John Hopkins University
Sigmoni: classification of nanopore signal with a compressed pangenome index

Rija Zaidi, University College London
Accurate and robust bootstrap inference of single-cell phylogenies by integrating sequencing read counts

iRNA Award

Best Poster (tie)
Carmelle Catamura (UC Berkeley, USA)
Designing de novo splicing with deep learning for allele-specific silencing of disease genes

Roman Sarrazin-Gendron (McGill, Montreal)
Assembling a database of heterogeneous RNA 3D loop modules from conserved substructures

Roni Cohen-Fultheim (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Largescale genome-wide quantification of A-to-I RNA editing in Alu elements

NetBio COSI

Best Talk
Merel Kuijs, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
GraphCompass: Spatial metrics for differential analyses of cell organization across conditions

Best Poster - Method
Emily Bozich, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Protein interaction network topology predicts in vitro synergy comparable to approaches trained with experimental data

Best Poster - Case-study/Application
Bahareh Parcheh Bafi, MCPHS, United States
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Uncover SPI1 Regulatory Targets Important in Breast Cancer

Best Poster - Resource
Davide Buzzao, Stockholm University (DBB), Sweden
FunCoup 6: advancing functional networks across species with directed links and improved user experience.

RegSys COSI

Best RegSys Talk (student)
Emily Maciejewski
Cross-species and tissue imputation of species-level DNA methylation samples across mammalian species

Best RegSys Talk (postdoc/other)
Melanie Weilert
Chromatin accessibility is driven by intra-nucleosomal pioneer cooperativity that includes low affinity motifs

Best RegSys Poster (student)
Pedro Tomaz da Silva
DNA language models reveal the architecture of nucleotide dependencies in genomes”

Best RegSys Poster (postdoc)
Océane Cassan
Automated and genome-scale exploration of the cis-regulatory code involved in neuronal differentiation

TransMed COSI

Best Oral Presentation
Rawan Shraim, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Drexel University, US
A computational approach for the high-throughput identification of cancer-specific antigens for immunotherapeutic development

Best Poster Presentation
Christian Anderson, Lowy Medical Research Institute, US
Phenomics Analysis of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2: Unveiling Correlations, Prognostic Indicators, and Subtypes in Disease Progression