Program

Wednesday, June 12

8:30 – 9:15 Registration & sign-in Auditorium
9:15 – 12:15 Workshop
Cosmic codes: Bridging Space Explorations and Bioinformatics
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
9:15 – 10:00 Round table
Paolo Macchi (CIBIO director, University of Trento), Lorenzo Bruzzone (University of Trento), Roberto Battiston (President of the Italian Space Agency 2014-2018)
Auditorium
10:00 – 10:30 Invited: Marta Murgia
Signatures of muscle disuse in spaceflight and bed rest revealed by single muscle fiber proteomics
Auditorium
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Auditorium
11:00 – 11:30 Invited: Emiliano Biasini
The ZePrion Experiment: Crystallizing Protein Folding Intermediates on the International Space Station
Auditorium
11:30 – 12:15 Selected orals Auditorium
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch & Poster preparation Trento expo
13:45 – 14.00 Opening Remarks Auditorium
14:00 – 14:30 Preparata lecture
Nicola Segata
Computational metagenomics to model natural and therapeutic human microbiome transmission
Auditorium
14:30 – 16:00 Session 1
Translational, Clinical and Industry Bioinformatics
Chair: TBD
Auditorium
14:30 – 15:00 Invited: Giuseppe Jurman
Generative AI in sequencing: enhancing models by synthetic omics data.
Auditorium
15:00 – 16:00 Selected orals Auditorium
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break Auditorium
16:30 – 17:15 BITS lecture
Raffaele Calogero, Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Luciano Milanesi, Graziano Pesole, Giorgio Valle
Twenty years of BITS
Auditorium
17:15 – 19:00 BITS members meeting Auditorium
19:00 – 20:30 Welcome cocktail Chiostro degli Agostiniani

 

Thursday, June 13

8:30 – 9:00 Registration & sign-in Auditorium
9:00 – 10.30 Session 2
Bioinformatics Core Facilities and Research Infrastructures
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
9:00 – 9:30 Invited: Alessandro Cestaro
ELIXIRxNextGenIT, consolidating the ELIXIR Italian Node
Auditorium
9:30 – 10:30 Selected orals Auditorium
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Auditorium
11:00 – 12:30 Session 3
Systems biology
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
11:00 – 11:30 Invited: Silvia Parolo
Systems biology applications in drug repurposing
Auditorium
11:30 – 12:30 Selected orals Auditorium
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch & Poster Session 1 Trento expo
14:30 – 17.45 Session 4
Omics and multi-omics
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
14:30 – 15:00 Invited: Johannes Rainer
An Open Software Development-based Infrastructure for Efficient Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis
Auditorium
15:00 – 16:00 Selected orals Auditorium
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break Auditorium
16:30 – 17:00 Invited: Marco Moretto
The Grapedia Initiative: Building the Grapevine Genomic Encyclopedia
Auditorium
17:00 – 17:45 Selected orals Auditorium
17:45 – 18:00 Presentation of BITS 2025 Auditorium
19:30 – 22:30 Social Dinner Villa Bortolazzi

     

Friday, June 14

8:30 – 9:00 Registration & sign-in Auditorium
9:00 – 10.30 Session 5
Bioinformatics AI, Models and Tools 
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
9:00 – 9:30 Invited: Giovanni Iacca
When Explainable AI and Evolutionary Computation meet.
Auditorium
9:30 – 10:30 Selected orals Auditorium
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Auditorium
11:00 – 13:00 Session 6
High-resolution RNA computational biology
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
11:00 – 11:30 Invited: Eva Novoa
Decoding the mRNA and tRNA epitranscriptome at single molecule resolution
Auditorium
11:30 – 12:30 Selected orals Auditorium
12:30 – 13:00 Invited: Waldron Levi
TBD
Auditorium
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch & Poster Session 2 Trento expo
15:00 – 16.00 Session 7
Data management, sharing and FAIRness
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
15:00 – 15:30 Invited: Simon Hodson
FAIR to Enable Cross-Domain Research.
Auditorium
15:30 – 16:00 Selected orals Auditorium
16:00 – 16:15 Closing Remarks Auditorium
16:15 – 17:45 YOUNG BITS, RSG-Italy & CINI Young InfoLife Symposium
Chairs: TBD
Auditorium
17:45 – 19:00 CINI InfoLife Meeting Auditorium
19:00 – 21:00 AperiBITS Trento expo

       

Saturday, June 15

9:30 – 12.30 HIT workshop
Bioinformatics, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Chairs: Milena Bigatto
School of Innovation, University of Trento
12:30 – 15:30 Lunch (self-organized) & travel to Lake Caldonazzo  
15:30 – 18.30 Dragonboat on the lake Caldonazzo Lake
18:30 – 22:30 Dinner (self-organized) & return to Trento