Conference Schedule

Dear colleagues, welcome to the third Belgrade Bioinformatics Conference – BelBI2021. To join a session, please, click on the button of the track, which the session is on. You can check the talks on TRACK 1 and TRACK 2 in the Conference schedule bellow. If you want to join Poster Session, please, click on the GO TO POSTERS button below.

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14.30 – 15.00	OPENING CEREMONY (TRACK 1)
KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Marko Đorđević, Serbia
15.00 – 15.50	James Collins, USA	Harnessing Synthetic Biology and Deep Learning to Fight Pathogens
TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Nataša Pržulj, Spain
16.00 – 16.30	Predrag Radivojac, USA	On the developing protocols and guidelines for the use of variant pathogenicity predictors in the clinic
16.30 – 17.00	Ron Shamir, Israel	Utilizing multi-omics and medical records to understand cancer
17.00 – 17.10	BREAK
17.10 – 17.40	Alex Bateman, UK	Structure Predictions Transform Protein Family Classification
17.40 – 18.10	Richard Bonneau, USA	Integrating generative physical and deep learning approaches to navigate the structure-function-sequence triangle
18.10 – 18.25	Ana Jelović, Serbia	RepeatPlus – Program for finding motifs and repeats in data sequences
TRACK 2 Biomedical Informatics Chair: Guanglan Zhang, USA
16.00 – 16.30	Guanglan Zhang, USA	Extraction of Immune Epitope Information
16.30 – 17.00	Lou Chitkushev, USA	TANTIGEN 2.0: a bioinformatics platform that supports T-cell epitope based vaccine design
17.00 – 17.10	BREAK
17.10 – 17.40	Mona Singh, USA	Deciphering cancer genomes
17.40 – 17.55	Sergey N. Volkov, Ukraine	The possible role of hydrogen peroxide molecules in ion beam therapy of cancer cells
17.55 – 18.10	Ninel Miriam Vainshelbaum, Latvia	Polyploidy-induced atavistic regression to unicellularity and developmental bivalent gene activation in the context of carcinogenesis
18.10 – 18.25	Teodora Đikić, Serbia	Imidazolines: In silico off-target fishing in the class A of G protein-coupled receptors

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10.10 – 10.50	POSTER SESSION 1 (A)
10.50 – 11.50	TRACK 1 SPONSOR SESSION – SEVEN BRIDGES GENOMICS An open hour chat with Seven Bridges bioinformatics team
TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Saša Malkov, Serbia
11.50 – 12.20	Fran Supek, Spain	Clustered mutation patterns in cancer genomes
12.20 – 12.35	Ivan Skadrić, Serbia	Entropy changes in worldwide collected HIV-1 subtypes A and B sequences
12.35 – 12.50	Milan Kovačević, Serbia	Benchmarking of Short and Structural Variant Calling Solutions available on SevenBridges Platform within GIAB Benchmarking Framework
12.50 – 13.05	Jaroslaw Synak, Poland	Virxicon: a lexicon of viral sequences
13.05 – 13.15	BREAK
13.15 – 13.45	Nataša Pržulj, Spain	Network data fusion and topological analysis identifies the neighbours of viral targets and differentially expressed genes in Covid-19 as drug target candidates
13.45 – 14.00	Nirupma Singh, India	Database Construction and Network Analysis of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions Involved in Microbial CVDs
TRACK 2 Bioinformatics of COVID-19 Chair: Maja Stanojević, Serbia
11.50 – 12.20	Francesco Pappalardo, Italy	Can modeling and simulation help in COVID-19 vaccine research?
12.20 – 12.50	Branka Zukić, Serbia	Precision medicine and COVID-19: importance of host genome profiling and bioinformatics
12.50 – 13.00	BREAK
13.00 – 13.30	Anđela Rodić, Serbia	Biophysical and bioinformatics approach to study socio-demographic and weather impacts on the SARS-CoV-2 virus transmissibility
13.30 – 13.45	Sofija Marković, Serbia	A bioinformatics approach to inferring environmental drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility
13.45 – 14.00	Bojana Ilić, Serbia	Understanding Infection Progression under Strong Control Measures through Universal COVID-19 Growth Signatures
LUNCH BREAK
KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Tamas Korcsmaros, UK
15.00 – 15.50	Eugene Koonin, USA	The world of viruses, its global organization and evolution
TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Nevena Veljković, Serba
16.00 – 16.30	Vladimir Uversky, USA	Unusual Biophysics and Strange Biology of Intrinsic Disorder
16.30 – 17.00	Damiano Piovesan, Italy	Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction
17.00 – 17.10	BREAK
17.10 – 17.40	Frederick (Fritz) Roth, Canada	Improved pathogenicity prediction for rare human missense variants
17.40 – 17.55	Marija Vidović, Serbia	Comparative De Novo Transcriptomic Analysis of Photosynthetically Active and Non-Photosynthetically Active Tissues of Variegated Pelargonium zonale Leaves
17.55 – 18.10	Ana Pantelić, Serbia	De Novo Transcriptome Sequencing of Ramonda serbica: Identification of Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins
18.10 – 18.25	Haitham G. Abo-Al-Ela, Egypt	The emerging regulatory roles of noncoding RNAs in immune function of fish: microRNAs versus long noncoding RNAs
TRACK 2 Bioinformatics of COVID-19 Chair: Tamas Korcsmaros, UK
16.00 – 16.30	Bjorn Gruning, Germany	No more business as usual: Agile and effective responses to emerging pathogen threats require open data and open analytics.
16.30 – 17.00	Bosiljka Tadić, Slovenia	Assessing the impact of asymptomatic virus carriers by agent-based modelling approach
17.00 – 17.15	Mariem Ghoula, France	Structural analysis of the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and the human ACE2 receptor

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10.10 – 10.50	POSTER SESSION 1 (B)
KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Yuriy Orlov, Russia
10.50 – 11.40	Jörg Menche		Network Medicine — From protein-protein to human-machine interactions
TRACK 1 Theoretical Approaches to BioInformation Systems (TABIS) Chair: Yuriy Orlov, Russia
11.50 – 12.20	Sergei Kozyrev, Russia		Genome as a program
12.20 – 12.50	Branko Dragović, Serbia		Biological information and the genetic code
12.50 – 13.00	BREAK
13.00 – 13.20	Dragana Bajić, Serbia		Clustering as a Support Technique in Phenotyping and Genotyping
13.20 – 13.40	Mirjana M. Maljković, Serbia		Models for Prediction of Structural Alphabet Protein Blocks
LUNCH BREAK
TRACK 1 Theoretical Approaches to BioInformation Systems (TABIS) Chair: Sergei Kozyrev, Russia
15.00 – 15.30	Konstantin Severinov, USA		Long-Term Persistence of Plasmids Targeted by CRISPR Interference in Bacterial Populations
15.30 – 16.00	Ana Conesa, USA		Challenges and solutions in for the integrative analysis of multi-omics data
16.00 – 16.10	BREAK
16.10 – 16.40	Jane Kondev, USA		Action at a Distance in the Yeast Nucleus
16.40 – 17.10	Nediljko Budiša, Germany/Canada		Structure and Evolution of the Genetic Code from the Perspective of a Sceptical Experimental Biochemist
TRACK 2 GALAXY TRAINING
12.00 – 18.00		GALAXY TRAINING
		Introduction to Galaxy
		Introduction to NGS
		Introduction to RNA-Seq analysis with Galaxy and R
		Visualisation

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KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Shanfeng Zhu, China
10.50 – 11.40	Henrik Nielsen, Denmark	Signal peptide prediction: from plain neural networks to language models
TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Oxana Galzitskaya, Russia
11.50 – 12.20	Alexandre de Brevern, France	Impact of protein dynamics on secondary structure prediction
12.20 – 12.50	Peter Tompa, Belgium	Biomolecular condensation: macromolecular assembly in the cell by liquid–liquid phase separation and beyond
12.50 – 13.00	BREAK
13.00 – 13.30	Yuriy Orlov, Russia	Reconstruction of Gene Networks Associated with Complex Disorders on Example of Parkinson Disease
13.30 – 13.45	Vladimir Babenko, Russia	Altered splicing profile of Ptbp1 drives global splicing tune-up upon neuroinflammation response in rat model
13.45 – 14.00	Parakh Sehgal, India	A Subtractive Proteomics Approach to Identify Putative Drug Targets Against Parasitic Species
TRACK 2 Biomedical Informatics Chair: Vladimir Brusić, China
11.50 – 12.20	Goran Nenadić, UK	Linking Genes, Chemicals and Herbs: an Integrated Knowledge Graph from the Stroke Literature and Databases
12.20 – 12.50	Vladimir Babenko, Russia	cAMP mediated genes profiles underscore drastic reduction of dopamine intake along with opioids in the dorsal striatum of fighting deprived aggressive mice
12.50 – 13.00	BREAK
13.00 – 13.30	Silvano Piazza, Italy	The inquiry of the hidden information of cis-regulatory elements
13.30 – 13.45	Lana Radenković, Serbia	Predicting suicide: serotonin presynapse dynamic modelling and machine learning approach
13.45 – 14.00	Vladimir Perović, Serbia	Innovative bioinformatic approach to kidney transplant wait-list management in the Republic of Serbia
LUNCH BREAK
KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Gordana Pavlović Lažetić, Serbia
15.00 – 15.50	Igor Jurisica	AI is Not Enough: Explainable Biology for Improved Therapies
15.50 – 16.50	POSTER SESSION 2 (A)
TOURISTIC HOURS (TRACK 1)
17.00 – Museum of Yugoslavia 17.40 – Touristic Organization of Belgrade

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TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Alex Bateman, UK
10.50 – 11.20	Jiangning Song, Australia	Leveraging the power of data-driven machine learning techniques to address significant biomedical classification problems
11.20 – 11.50	Vladimir Brusić, China	Supervised Machine Learning Techniques for Single Cell RNAseq: New Opportunities for Clinical Medicine
11.50 – 12.00	BREAK
12.00 – 12.30	Shanfeng Zhu, China	Recent Advances in Large-scale Protein Function Prediction
12.30 – 12.45	Stefan Spalević, Serbia	Hierarchical Protein Function Prediction with Tail-GNNs
12.45 – 13.00	Jelisaveta Ilić, Serbia	SB MultiCNV: novel method for copy number variations consensus calling
TRACK 2 Biomedical Informatics Chair: Jiangning Song, Australia
10.50 – 11.20	Hong-Yu OU, China	Identification of the conjugative transfer modules of antibiotic-resistant plasmids
11.20 – 11.50	Patrick Aloy, Spain	Extending the small-molecule similarity principle to all levels of biology
11.50 – 12.00	BREAK
12.00 – 12.30	Mark Wass, UK	Identification of sequence changes in myosin II that adjust muscle contraction velocity
12.30 – 12.45	Staša Stanković, UK	Using human genetics to understand the aetiology of reproductive ageing and its links to later life diseases
12.45 – 13.00	Andrea Mihajlović, Serbia	Inflammatory bowel disease prediction based on metagenomics data
13.00 – 13.15	Teodora Lukić, Serbia	Differential analysis of co-expression networks in the dog mammary gland carcinomas
13.00 – 14.00	POSTER SESSION 2 (B)
LUNCH BREAK
TRACK 1 Bioinformatics and Data Mining of Biological Data (BiDMBD) Chair: Branislava Gemović, Serbia
15.00 – 15.30	Nevena Veljković, Serbia	New age for alignment-free methods for sequence analyses
15.30 – 16.00	Tijana Milenković, USA	Network science reveals a protein's role in aging and a person's risk of mental health problems
16.00 – 16.30	Gary Bader, Canada	Gene function prediction using unsupervised and semi-supervised biological network integration
TRACK 2 Biomedical Informatics Chair: Vladimir Uversky, USA
15.00 – 15.30	Nataša Milić, Serbia	Meta-analysis of circulating cell-free DNA's role in the prognosis of pancreatic cancer
15.30 – 16.00	Oxana Galzitskaya, Russia	Exploring amyloidogenicity of peptides from ribosomal protein S1 to develop novel AMPs
16.00 – 16.10	BREAK
16.10 – 16.40	Zoran Obradović, USA	Influence of medical domain knowledge on deep learning for early diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease
16.40 – 16.55	Vladimir M. Jovanović, Germany	E-boxes as ZEB2 binding sites
KEYNOTE SESSION (TRACK 1) Chair: Branka Zukić, Serbia
17.00 – 17.50	Ben Raphael, USA	Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity using Single-cell and Spatial Sequencing Technologies
17.50 – 18.10	CLOSING CEREMONY AND POSTER AWARDS (TRACK 1)

Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Day 1 - 21.06.2021.

Day 2 - 22.06.2021.

Day 3 - 23.06.2021.

Day 4 - 24.06.2021.

Day 5 - 25.06.2021.