6TH CENTRAL GERMAN MEETING ON BIOINFORMATICS
The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI) Leipzig are proud to announce the forthcoming 6th Central German Meeting on Bioinformatics (Mittelerde Meeting 2025) in cooperation with the University of Leipzig.
CONFERENCE DATE
02/04/2025 – 03/04/2025
VENUE
Campus Jahnallee
Jahnallee 59, 04109 Leipzig
Haus 5, Höhrsaal 5
TOPICS
Conference contributions will cover a broad range of Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and the intersection of AI and biology. We invite researchers to submit Abstracts from fields such as:
- DNA-, RNA-, Virus Bioinformatics
- Omics, single-cell, multi-omics
- Drug Design, structure prediction, Ligand binding
- Image Analysis, Radiomics
- AI and Machine Learning in biomedical contexts
- Modeling and Systems in Biology
- and related fields.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Denise Kühnert, Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research, RKI Berlin
Prof. Dr. Michael Hiller, Goethe University Frankfurt Michael Hiller Lab
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Senckenberg Research Institute,
Goethe University Frankfurt, TOPIC: TOGA2 improves speed and accuracy of comparative gene annotation
other speakers:
1 Sayan Mukherjee, MPI/ University Leipzig Topic: Scale Reliant Interference
2 Wassili Dimitriew, FSU Jena, Topic: Man and Machine (and Fungus): Genome- scale metabolic reconstruction leveraged by large language models
3 Varada Khot, FSU Jena, Topic: From Jacks-of-all-trades to masters of some: phylogenomic insights into microbial specialization using gene-tree reconciliation
4 Heitor Baldo, University Leipzig, topic: lgorithms for Approximating the Spectral Density of Multilayer Directed Graphs and Hypergraphs
5 Adrian Friebel, University Leipzig, topic: Spatially Resolved Single-Cell Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment and TGF- Signaling Using Multiplex Imaging and Deep Learning
6 Marie Steinacker, University Leipzig, topic: Predicting chemotherapy-induced thrombotoxicity by NARX neural networks and knowledge-driven transfer learning
7 Maximilian Joas, University Leipzig, topic: Zero-Shot, Big-Shot, Active-Shot – How to estimate cell confluence, lazily
8 Carolin Schimmelpfennig, University Halle, topic: High-throughput characterization of stomatal traits in WM800 MAGIC wheat population
9 Pierre Joubert, TU Dresden, topic: Understanding how genome stability is encoded at the sequence level using the DNA language model GROVER
10 Jakub Zastapilo, TU Dresden, topic: Region-Specific Alterations in 3D Genome Architecture Following X-Ray Irradiation
11 Maria Schreiber, FSU Jena, topic: Sweet Synteny – Unraveling Microsynteny Patterns
12 Andreas Kröpelin, University Leipzig, topic: Connecting the dots: A probabilistic model for biomolecular latent space trajectories
13 Tieu-Long Phan, University Leipzig, topic: KGG: A Knowledge-Guided Graph Self-Supervised Framework for Advancing Molecular Property Predictions
14 Stefan Höhme, University Leipzig, topic: Machine-learning superpixels for 3D multiscale modelling of liver diseases
15 Inna Lavrik, OVGU Magdeburg, topic: Dissecting apoptosis regulation via pharmacological targeting
16 Luisa Kärmer, University Vanderbilt/ Leipzig, topic: AI-Accelerated Quantum Chemistry for Drug Design
17 Adnan Jasarevic, TU Dresden, topic: Modelling strategies to derive physico-chemical properties of the DNA double helix from DNA sequence data
18 Marija Sorokina, University Leipzig, topic: Development of peptide binders with ML- & physics-based methods for GPCRs
19 Tushar Patel, FLI Jena, topic: Gestational Age prediction using CpG clusters in regularized regression
20 Michael Rade, Frauenhofer IZI Leipzig, topic: Development of a time series single-cell transcriptomic CAR T-cell atlas to explore the dynamics of CAR T-cell therapy
21 Dmitrii Severinov, TU Dresden, topic: From Damage to Healing: Following the Regeneration Process in Zebrafish with Single-Cell Multiomics and Gene Regulatory Networks
22 Mark Olenik, FLI Jena, topic: Tracking Biological Age – A Proteomic Clock with Consistent Longitudinal Performance
23 Rainer König, FSU Jena, topic: Integrative Identification of Host Dependency Factors in Key Viral Pathogens Using Machine Learning
24 Tom Eulenfeld, FSU Jena, topic: AnchoRNA – Guiding the alignment of full viral genomes
25 Eva Aßmann, RKI, A spatiotemporal deep learning appraoch for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater forecasts
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ORGANIZERS
CONTACT: mittelerde@uni-leipzig.de
General Informations: https://service.scadsai.uni-leipzig.de/mittelerde/
Dr. Stephan Bernhart, IZBI, bernhart@izbi.uni-leipzig.de
Prof. Dr. Peter Florian Stadler, IZBI, Bioinformatic Faculty, stadler@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de
Dr. Jan Ewald, jan.ewald@uni-leipzig.de
Prof. Dr. Jens Meiler, jens@meilerlab.org
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