Program
| Wednesday, 21 June | |
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 12:30 | Workshop “Advanced machine-learning approaches for the analysis of microbiome data” |
| 13:00 | Registration and Poster Session 1 hang-up |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Welcome cocktail |
| 14:00 - 14:10 |
Opening remarks by Conference Chairs - Graziano Pesole, UniBA, CNR-IBIOM - Domenica D’Elia, CNR-ITB - Flavio Licciulli, CNR-ITB |
Workshop: Cosmic codes: Bridging Space Explorations and Bioinformatics chair(s) Raffaele Calogero |
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| 14:10 - 14:50 | Silvio Tosatto PREPARATA LECTURE CAID 2: Lessons from the Second Critical Assessment of Protein Intrinsic Disorder Prediction |
| 14:50 | Pasquale Miglionico |Oral Presentation| Using AlphaFold to delve into signal transduction mechanisms |
| 15:10 | Giacomo Janson |Oral Presentation| Direct generation of protein structural ensembles via deep generative modeling |
| 15:30 | Fabrizio Pucci |Oral Presentation| New computational insights on enzyme stability-activity trade-off |
| 15:50 | Bernardina Scafuri |Oral Presentation| The importance of data standardization for the analysis of structural files: a case report |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Coffee Break – Poster Session 1 |
| 16:40 - 20:00 | BITS members meeting |
| Thursday, 22 June | |
Session 2 chair(s) Domenica D’Elia, Flavio Licciulli |
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| 09:00 - 09:10 | Greetings and Welcome by Cinzia Giannini (President CNR-AdR Bari) |
| 09:10 - 09:50 | Chris Evelo KEYNOTE LECTURE For a nutritionist the proof of the pudding comes after the eating |
| 09:50 | Simone Pernice |Oral Presentation| Development of a risk class classifier using longitudinal data. |
| 10:10 | Giulia Cesaro |Oral Presentation| CClens: effective and efficient differential cellular communication analysis of large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break – Poster Session 1 |
Session 3 chair(s) Graziano Pesole |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Anna De Grassi INVITED TALK Genome-Wide Identification and Validation of Gene Expression Biomarkers in the Diagnosis of Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma |
| 11:20 | Emma Busarello |Oral Presentation| Harmonizing the annotation of single cells in normal and aberrant hematopoiesis with the Cell Marker Accordion |
| 11:40 | Silvia Giulia Galfrè |Oral Presentation| COTAN v2: a Comprehensive and Versatile Framework for Single-Cell Gene Co-Expression Studies and Cell Type Identification |
| 12:00 | Francesco Gazzo |Oral Presentation| Unraveling the Effect of Proliferative Stress in Vivo in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy |
| 12:20 | Carlo Cipriani |Oral Presentation| RAAVioli: a bioinformatic tool for the characterization of AAV integration and recombination processes |
| 12:40 | Claudia Mengoni |Oral Presentation| Rediscovering pangenomic content of metagenomic assembled genomes with PanDelos-frags |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch - Poster Session 1 |
Session 4 chair(s) Alessandro Cestaro, Arianna Consiglio |
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| 14:00 - 14:40 | Erik Bongcam-Rudloff KEYNOTE LECTURE Revolutionising Farming: How Bioinformatics is Changing the Face of Precision Agriculture |
| 14:40 | Michael Landi |Oral Presentation| Reference genome assembly and annotation of an African reference cassava genome for identification of epigenetics variations |
| 15:00 | Simone Bonora |Oral Presentation| Bioinformatics study for the structural and functional characterization of lipoxygenases from diatoms |
| 15:20 | Alessandro Rondina |Oral Presentation| Targeting Potential Binding Pockets in HIV-1 Matrix Protein for Novel Anticancer Agents |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Elisabetta Sbisà ELIXIRxNextGenIT: Consolidation of the Italian Infrastructure for Omics Data and Bioinformatics |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Coffee Break – Poster Session 2 hang-up |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee Break – Poster Session 2 |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Gabriella Casalino INVITED TALK Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine for trustworthy decision |
| 16:50 | Veronica Guerrini |Oral Presentation| BFQzip: lossy compression of FASTQ through extended BWT |
| 17:10 | Pietro Luca Mazzacuva |Oral Presentation| Detecting A-to-I RNA editing by Convolutional Neural Network |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | BITS2024 Presentation |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Sightseeing tour |
| 20:15 | Social Dinner at “La Cecchina” restaurant |
| Friday, 23 June | |
Session 5 chair(s) Ernesto Picardi, Bruno Fosso |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 | Pavel Baranov KEYNOTE LECTURE Junk translation, translation of junk and translation that does not make proteins |
| 09:40 | Stefania Mattevi |Oral Presentation| ASTRA enables allele specific expression and/or chromatin accessibility analysis from sequencing data. |
| 10:00 | Federica Chiappori |Oral Presentation| Innovative pipeline for lncRNA detection from small RNA-seq data |
| 10:20 | Samuele Cancellieri |Oral Presentation| Resolving complex transcription models with a new complementary sequencing and bioinformatics pipeline |
| 10:40 | Ermes Filomena |Oral Presentation| IsoPrimer: a primer-designing pipeline for amplicon-based validation of genes and splicing variants expression. |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break – Poster Session 2 |
Session 6 chair(s) Raffaele Calogero, Francesca Cordero |
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| 11:30 - 12:10 | Mario Cannataro BITS LECTURE High Performance Analysis of Omics Data: 20 Years Experiences at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro |
| 12:10 | Pietro Hiram Guzzi |Oral Presentation| A Nonparametric graphical approach for estimating differential networks between sex and age related chronic diseases. |
| 12:30 | Arnaud Ceol |Oral Presentation| Alleanza Contro Il Cancro: secure data management for multicentric clinical trials in the HBD-DataCloud. |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Anna Marabotti An overview of bioinformatics courses delivered at the academic level in Italy: Reflections and recommendations from BITS |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch - Poster Session 2 |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Closing Remarks and Best Poster Prize |
| 14:10 - 14:45 | Anna Marabotti Round Table - Teaching Bioinformatics in Italy: a road map |
Symposium chair(s) Arianna Consiglio, Bruno Fosso |
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| 15:00 - 17:00 | YOUNG BITS, RSG-Italy & CINI Young InfoLife Symposium |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Meeting CINI |
