This annual event brings together researchers, students, and professionals in biology, medicine, and informatics to share cutting-edge findings and foster collaboration.
Where? Hof Van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen
When? 12 December 2024, 9:30-17:00
TIMETABLE
8:30 | Registrations & coffee
9:30 - 12:00: Morning session
Talks
9:30 | Kris Laukens - BIOMINA & Adrem Data Lab (UA):
Welcome & introduction to biomina
9:45 | Cyril Willemart - Cell Death Signaling Lab (UA):
Plasma Cell-Free DNA Sequencing in ICU Patients to Monitor (Ferroptotic) Cell Death
10:00 | Ilia Artiushin - Evolutionary Ecology Group (UA):
Does hybridization facilitate explosive speciation of Lake Baikal amphipods?
10:15 | Juan Sebastian Piedrahita Giraldo - Adrem Data Lab (UA):
Twin neural network-based spectrum transformer for small molecule analog discovery from untargeted mass spectrometry
10:30 | Tijs Watzeels - Center for Molecular Neurology (VIB-UA):
Alternative transcript isoform usage in cell populations of the human brain in context of Alzheimer's disease pathology
Flash talks
10:45 | Marina Pominova - Adrem Data Lab (UA):
Benchmarking of Deep Learning-based De Novo Peptide Sequencing Tools
10:50 | Irene Valdivia Callejon - Medical Genetics (UA):
Unravelling shared pathomechanisms in syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm disorders using single-cell RNA sequencing
10:55 | Gauthier Le Compte - Adrem Data Lab (UA):
Computational Decision Support for Penicillin Allergy Risk Stratification
Keynote lecture
11:00 | Stein Aerts – VIB.AI (VIB - KULeuven):
Modelling genome regulation
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch & poster session
13:30 – 15:00: First afternoon session
Talks
13:30 | Mathijs Van der Lei - Medical Genetics (UA):
Next-Generation Mouse Phenotyping with the Live Mouse Tracker (LMT): Validating Novel Treatments for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
13:45 | Senne Heeren - Molecular Parasitology (Institute of Tropical Medicine):
Evolutionary genomics of Leishmania (V.) braziliensis across the Neotropical realm
14:00 | Alexandra Vujkovic - Adrem Data Lab (UA) & Clinical Virology (ITM):
TCR Convergence in HIV Controllers: Insights into Natural Viral Suppression
Flash talks
14:15 | Peter De Rijk - Center for Molecular Neurology (VIB-UA):
Scywalker: scalable end-to-end data analysis of nanopore single-cell transcriptome sequencing
14:20 | Alejandro Mendoza Cantu - Adrem Data Lab (UA) :
User-Friendly Tools for Reference Data-Driven Metabolomics
14:25 | Vanshika Bidhan - Center for Molecular Neurology (VIB-UA) :
Understanding the role of somatic mutations in TARDBP in FTLD-TDP type C
Talks
14:30 | Wouter De Coster - Center for Molecular Neurology (VIB-UA) :
Length and sequence variation in known and novel pathogenic tandem repeats
14:45 | Janne Heirman - Adrem Data Lab (UA) :
Enhanced spectrum clustering for interpretable molecular networking
15:00 – 15:45: Coffee & poster session
15:45 – 17:00: Second afternoon session
Talks
15:45 | Philip Ley - Geobiology (UA) :
On the diversity and distribution of electricity-producing cable bacteria
16:00 | Romi Vandoren - Adrem Data Lab (UA) :
Unraveling the Complex T Cell Receptor-Microbiome Interaction Network in the Colon Through Advanced Computational Analysis
16:15 | Vasileios Lemonidis - Center for Oncological Research (UZA & UA):
Unveiling the Epigenetic Landscape of Neuroendocrine Tumors
16:30 | Valentina Burskaia - Evolutionary Ecology Group (UA):
Introgression dynamics of sex-linked chromosomal inversions shape the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation
16:45 | Pieter Moris - Malariology (Institute of Tropical Medicine):
Enabling the systematic genomic surveillance of malaria via a global network of travel clinics
17:00 – 17:15: Closing words
17:15 – 19:00: Reception
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Posters
P1: Fabio Affaticati – Adrem Data Lab, UAntwerp: Beyond antibody titers: T cell-focused insights into Measles vaccine response using multi-view data
P2: Charlotte Adams – Adrem Data Lab, UAntwerp: Fragment Ion Intensity Prediction Boosts Immunopeptide Identification in timsTOF Mass Spectrometry
P3: Monika Dębińska – University of Gdansk: Thermophilic bacteriophage WP-7 genome sequencing
P4: Sara Alidadinai – Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB-UA: New Insights into aFTLD-U through the brain transcriptomics analysis
P5: Chloé Vermeulen – Center for Oncological Research, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital: Unraveling cell-cell communication in the Tumor Microenvironment of Inflammatory Breast Cancer
P6: Elise Coopman – Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB-UA: Single-nucleus transcriptomics in frontotemporal dementia
P7: Wim Cuypers – Adrem Data Lab, UAntwerp: SquiDBase: a centralized community resource of microbial squiggle data
P8: Anna Postovskaya – Adrem Data Lab, UAntwerp: tcrBLOSUM: towards discovering epitope-specific T-cell receptors with dissimilar sequences
P9: Vincent Van Deuren – Adrem Data Lab, UAntwerp: Decoding the T-Cell Receptor Repertoire in Chronic Arthritis
This research day is made possible thanks to our sponsors.
