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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Details coming soon.
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Megha Hegde |
Jeff Didier |
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Ph.D. Candidate | School of Computer Science and Mathematics | Kingston University London | United Kingdom |
Ph.D. Candidate | Department of Life Sciences and Medicine | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
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Tiziana Ricciardelli
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | ||
| Member | Stela | |||
| Member | Sebastian Urquiza | Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), University of Chile | Chile | ||
| Member | Maram |
| Chair | Pradeep Eranti | Université Paris Cité | France |
| Chair | Estefania Torrejón | NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | Portugal | ||
| Member | Jacob | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | ||
| Member | Souman Dey Kakon | Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University | Bangladesh | ||
| Member | Muhammed Hunaid Topiwala | Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University | United States |
| Chair | Ece Bayraktar | |||
| Member | Clara | |||
| Member | Farhan | |||
| Member | Sowmya | |||
| Member | Abdul |
| Chair | Adeline McKie | Queen's University Belfast | United Kingdom | ||
| Member | Miriam Poley | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) | Spain | ||
| Member | Mehreen Fatima | COMSATS University Islamabad | Pakistan | ||
| MEmber | Ankita Murmu | Semmelweis University | Hungary |
| Chair | Blessy Antony | Virginia Tech | United States | ||
| Member | Robert Clarke | University of Bath | United Kingdom |
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We are honoured to welcome Professor Dame Janet Thornton as a keynote speaker at SCS 2025. A distinguished computational biologist, Professor Thornton has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of protein structure and function, evolution, and ageing, by using novel computational approaches. From 2001 to 2015, she served as Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), where she played a pivotal role in the development of ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for biological data. Her career spans leading roles in academia, including positions at University College London and Birkbeck College, where she held the Bernal Chair in the Crystallography Department. Professor Thornton's exceptional contributions to science have been widely recognized. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of EMBO, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. |
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We are honoured to welcome Professor Segun Fatumo as a keynote speaker at SCS 2025. A renowned leader in genomic research, Professor Fatumo holds the Chair of Genomic Diversity at Queen Mary University of London and leads the NCD Genomics program at the MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. His pioneering work focuses on the genomics and other omics of African populations, leveraging cutting-edge approaches such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS), polygenic risk score analysis (PRS), and Mendelian randomisation (MR). He co-led the first major GWAS of cardiometabolic traits in Africa and led the first GWAS of kidney function in continental African populations. As co-director of the KidneyGenAfrica Research Partnership Programme, he plays a central role in advancing genomic research and training excellence in kidney disease across the continent. A passionate advocate for equity in science, Professor Fatumo was recently honoured with the prestigious MRC Impact Prize for his leadership in promoting African inclusion in genomics and for advancing genetic risk prediction in African populations. |
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Dr. Laura VeschettiUniversità Vita-Salute San Raffaele |
* More panelists to be announced soon.
The ISCB Student Council Symposium is a student-organized event featuring keynote lectures, oral presentations and a poster session. The Symposium is tailored mainly to undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-docs in computational biology and related disciplines.The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters an exchange of ideas and knowledge.The registration will be managed by the registration system of the main conference, ISMB/ECCB 2025. You have the option to register for SCS2025 together with your ISMB/ECCB registration or separately.
SCS Registration Fees
| Fees | In person | Virtual |
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| Members: For Delegates also registering for the conference | £110 | £20 |
| Non-Members: For Delegates also registering for the conference | £130 | £30 |
| Members: For Delegates registering for the Student Council Symposium only | £135 | £30 |
| Non-Members: For Delegates registering for the Student Council Symposium only | £160 | £40 |
Register for SCS2025 through the registration system of the main conference, ISMB/ECCB 2025.
You have the option to register for SCS2025 together with the main conference registration or separately.
The ISCB Student Council and its Regional Student Groups are organizing the 21st Student Council Symposium (SCS), preceding ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool, UK. The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
| Time | Session | Topic | Speaker |
| 8:30 - 8:45 AM | Opening Remarks | SCS Chairs | |
| 8:45 - 8:30 AM | Opening Keynote | Professor Segun Fatumo, Queen Mary University of London | |
| 9:30 - 9:45 AM |
Genomics and Multi-Omics Chair: Adeline McKie, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
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Nutri-omics: how omics investigation can help designing personalized nutrition research | Dr. Mirko Treccani, University of Parma, Italy |
| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Nocardia Genomes are a Large Reservoir of Diverse Gene Content, Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, and Species-specific Genes | Kiran Kumar Eripogu, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | |
| 10:00 - 10:05 AM | Lifting the Veil on Challenging Medically Relevant Genes | Victor Grentzinger, GIGA Research Institute, Liège, Belgium | |
| 10:05 - 10:10 AM | MLCSB | AccuRate: A Tool Supporting Genotype–Phenotype Analysis and Causal Mutation Discovery in Soybean | Alžbeta Rástocká, Palacky University, Slovakia |
| 10:10 - 10:15 AM | Early colorectal cancer detection with deep learning on ultra-shallow whole genome sequencing of cell-free DNA | Ritchie Yu, McGill University, Canada | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | DNA-DistilBERT: A small language model for non-coding variant effect prediction from human DNA sequences | Megha Hegde, Kingston University London, United Kingdom | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 AM | Generative AI for Childhood and Adult Cancer Research | Guillermo Prol Castelo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:05 AM | MLCSB | AutoPeptideML 2: An open source library for democratizing machine learning for peptide bioactivity prediction | Raúl Fernández-Díaz, IBM Research, UCD Conway Institute, Ireland |
| 11:05 - 11:10 AM | ENQUIRE automatically reconstructs, expands, and drives enrichment analysis of gene and MeSH co-occurrence networks from context-specific biomedical literature | Luca Musella, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany | |
| 11:10 - 11:15 AM | Automating Linear Motif Predictions to Map Human Signaling Networks | Yitao (Eric) Sun, McGill University, Canada | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 AM | Fold first, ask later: structure-informed function prediction in Pseudomonas phages | Hannelore Longin, KU Leuven, Belgium | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 AM | Exploring capabilities of protein language models for cryptic binding site prediction | Vít Škrhák, Charles University, Czechia | |
| 11:45 - 11:50 AM |
Proteins/RNA Chair: Dr. Tiziana Ricciardelli, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
Coarse-grained and Multi-Scale Modeling of Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases: Insights into Family-Specific Dynamics and Protein Frustration | Nisha Nandhini Shankar, SASTRA Deemed to be University, India |
| 11:50 - 11:55 AM | Identification and structural modeling of the novel TTC33-associated core (TANC) complex involved in DNA damage response | Małgorzata Drabko, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland | |
| 11:55 AM - 12:00 PM | Integrative Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Novel lncRNA–circRNA–miRNA–mRNA Regulatory Networks in a Neurohormonal Model of Cardiac Hypertrophy | Sebastián Urquiza-Zurich, Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases - ACCDiS, University of Chile, Chile | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 PM | Deep Phylogenetic Reconstruction Reveals Key Functional Drivers in the Evolution of B1/B2 Metallo-β-Lactamases | Samuel Davis, The University of Queensland, Australia | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 PM | Integrated analysis of bulk and single-nuclei RNA sequencing data of primary and metastatic pediatric Medulloblastoma. | Ana Isabel Castillo Orozco, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Canada | |
| 12:30 - 12:35 PM | Multilingual model improves zero-shot prediction of disease effects on proteins | Ruyi Chen, The University of Queensland, Australia | |
| 12:35 - 12:40 PM | Meta-Analysis of Bovine Transcriptome Reveals Key Immune Gene Profiles and Signaling Pathways | Vennila Kanchana Devi Marimuthu, SASTRA Deemed to be University, India | |
| 12:40 - 12:45 PM | Functional Interfaces at Ordered–Disordered Transitions: Conserved Linear Motifs and Flanking Regions in Modular Proteins | Carla Luciana Padilla Franzotti, National University of Quilmes, Argentina | |
| 12:45 - 12:50 PM | TCRBench: A Unified Benchmark for TCR–Antigen Binding Prediction and Clustering | Muhammed Hunaid Topiwala, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA | |
| 12:50 - 12:55 PM | Investigating novel transcriptional regulators in symbiotic nodule development of Medicago truncatul | Sara Eslami, Kosar Bojnord University, Bojnourd, Iran | |
| 12:55 - 1:00 PM | Post-translational regulation of stemness under DNA damage response contributes to the gingivobuccal oral squamous cell carcinoma relapse and progression | Sachendra Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Lunch Break + Poster Session | ||
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM |
Panel Discussion Chair: Sebastián Urquiza-Zurich, Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases - ACCDiS, University of Chile, Chile |
A New Bioinformatics Era: State of Multi-Omics Data Integration |
Dr. Laura Veschetti, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele and San Raffaele Scientific Institute Dr. H. Melike Dönertas, Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute Dr. Mirko Treccani, Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Italy |
| 3:00 - 3:45 PM |
Closing Keynote Chair: Megha Hegde, Kingston University London, United Kingdom |
Professor Dame Janet Thornton, EMBL-EBI | |
| 3:45 - 4:00 PM |
Closing Remarks |
SCS Chairs | |
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