SCS 2025

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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

Presentations

Presentations

Flash Talks

Flash Talks

Posters

Posters

Networking

Networking

When
When?
20 July 2025
Where
Where?
Liverpool, UK

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Dame Janet Thornton

EMBL-EBI

Dr. 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
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More panelists to be added!

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 Dr. Segun Fatum
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 - 11:20 AM Flash Talk TCRBench: A Unified Benchmark for TCR–Antigen Binding Prediction and Clustering To be announced
11:20 - 11:35 AM Oral Presentation Fold first, ask later: structure-informed function prediction in Pseudomonas phages Hannelore Longin
KU Leuven, Belgium
11:35 - 11:50 AM Oral Presentation Exploring capabilities of protein language models for cryptic binding site prediction Vít Škrhák
Charles University, Czechia
11:50 - 11:55 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
11:55 AM - 12:00 PM 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
12:00 - 12:05 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
12:05 - 12:10 PM Flash Talk Automating Linear Motif Predictions to Map Human Signaling Networks Yitao (Eric) Sun
McGill University, Canada
12:10 - 12:25 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
12:25 - 12:30 PM Flash Talk Multilingual model improves zero-shot prediction of disease effects on proteins Ruyi Chen
The University of Queensland, Australia
12:30 - 12:45 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
12:45 - 12:50 PM Flash Talk Investigating novel transcriptional regulators in symbiotic nodule development of Medicago truncatul Sara Eslami
Kosar Bojnord University, Bojnourd, Iran
12:50 - 12:55 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
12:55 - 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
2:00 - 3:00 PM Panel Discussion A New Bioinformatics Era: State of Multi-Omics Data Integration
3:00 - 3:45 PM Closing Keynote Dr. Dame Janet Thornton
3:45 - 4:00 PM Closing Remarks SCS Chairs

Note: The above programme is subject to change.

Organising Committee

Megha Hegde

Megha Hegde

Chair

Kingston University London

Jeff Didier

Jeff Didier

Co-Chair

University of Luxembourg

Sponsors

ISCB
ISCB-SC

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