21st Student Council Symposium 2025
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 event will precede ISMB/ECCB2025.
When? 20 July 2025
Where? Liverpool, UK
Keynote Speakers
Professor Dame Janet Thornton
EMBL-EBI
Professor Segun Fatumo
Queen Mary University of London
Panelists
A New Bioinformatics Era: The State of Multi-Omics Data Integration
Dr. Laura Veschetti
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Dr. H. Melike Dönertaş
Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute
Dr. Mirko Treccani
Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma
Registration
| Fees | In person | Vritual |
| 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 |
You have the option to register for SCS2025 together with the main conference registration or separately.
Programme
| Time | Session | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 8:45 AM | Opening Remarks | SCS Chairs | |
| 8:45 - 9:30 AM | Opening Keynote | Bridging Gaps in Genomics: A Personal and Scientific Journey |
Prof. Segun Fatumo Queen Mary University of London |
| 9:30 - 9:45 AM | Oral Presentation | Nutri-omics: how omics investigation can help designing personalized nutrition research | Mirko Treccani University of Parma, Italy |
| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Oral Presentation | 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 |
| 10:00 - 10:05 AM | Flash Talk | Lifting the veil on Challenging Medically Relevant Genes | Victor Grentzinger GIGA Research Institute, Liège, Belgium |
| 10:05 - 10:10 AM | Flash Talk | AccuRate: A Tool Supporting Genotype–Phenotype Analysis and Causal Mutation Discovery in Soybean | Alžbeta Rástocká Palacky University, Slovakia |
| 10:10 - 10:15 AM | Flash Talk | 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 | Oral Presentation | 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 | Oral Presentation | 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 | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | Automating Linear Motif Predictions to Map Human Signaling Networks | Yitao (Eric) Sun McGill University, Canada |
| 11:15 - 11:30 AM | Oral Presentation | Fold first, ask later: structure-informed function prediction in Pseudomonas phages | Hannelore Longin KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 11:30 - 11:45 AM | Oral Presentation | Exploring capabilities of protein language models for cryptic binding site prediction | Vít Škrhák Charles University, Czechia |
| 11:45 - 11:50 AM | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | Integrative Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Novel lncRNA–circRNA–miRNA–mRNA Regulatory Networks in a Neurohormonal Model of Cardiac Hypertrophy | Sebastián Urquiza-Zurich University of Chile, Chile |
| 12:00 - 12:15 PM | Oral Presentation | 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 | Oral Presentation | 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 | Flash Talk | Multilingual model improves zero-shot prediction of disease effects on proteins | Ruyi Chen The University of Queensland, Australia |
| 12:35 - 12:40 PM | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | 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 | Flash Talk | TCRBench: A Unified Benchmark for TCR–Antigen Binding Prediction and Clustering | Muhammed Hunaid Topiwala Arizona State University, USA |
| 12:50 - 12:55 PM | Flash Talk | Investigating novel transcriptional regulators in symbiotic nodule development of Medicago truncatul | Sara Eslami Kosar Bojnord University, Bojnourd, Iran |
| 12:55 - 01:00 PM | Flash Talk | 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 Sesssion | ||
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Panel Discussion | A New Bioinformatics Era: State of Multi-Omics Data Integration | Dr. Laura Veschetti Dr. H. Melike Dönertas Dr. Mirko Treccani |
| 3:00 - 3:45 PM | Closing Keynote | Bioinformatics at the Heart of Life Science Research | Prof. Dame Janet Thornton EMBL-EBI |
| 3:45 - 4:00 PM | Closing Remarks | SCS Chairs | |
Note: The above programme is subject to change.
Organising Committee
Megha Hegde
Kingston University London
Chair
Jeff Didier
University of Luxembourg
Co-Chair
| Program Committee | Tiziana Riciardelli * | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
| Sebastian Urquiza | Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), University of Chile, United Kingdom | |
| Stela Vilhar | University of Westminster, UK | |
| Maram | ||
| Finance Committee | Estefania Torrejón * | NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal |
| Muhammed Hunaid Topiwala | Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA | |
| Souman Dey Kakon | Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh | |
| Jacob Gonzalez Isa | University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Design Committee | Ece Bayraktar * | İstanbul Technical University, Türkiye, İstanbul |
| Gizem Beyza Anık | Marmara University, Türkiye, İstanbul | |
| Vuslat Berfin Sakızcı | Uludağ University, Türkiye, Bursa | |
| Divy Rodriguez | Faculty of Farmacy and Biochemistry, National University of Trujillo, Peru | |
| Isabella Gallego | Center of Nuclear Energy for Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| Akifur Farhan | Faridpur Medical College, Bangladesh | |
| Outreach Committee | Adeline McKie * | Queen's University Belfast, UK |
| Mehreen Fatima | COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan | |
| Miriam Poley | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), Spain | |
| Ankita Murmu | Semmelweis University, Hungary | |
| Web Committee | Blessy Antony * | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Robert Clarke | University of Bath, UK | |
| Steering Committee | Pradeep Eranti * | Université de Paris, France |
| Wim Cuypers | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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