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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.

Updated Programme Schedule

 

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

 

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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