Conference agenda

  • Monday 24 June

    • Arrival & registration

      08:30 - 09:30

    • Tutorials and workshops

      09:30 - 16:30

      The tutorials and workshops take place at the congress center in Biel and the Courtyard hotel. 

      Check out the full list.

    • *Special session* Career horizons: navigating diverse paths

      13:30 - 17:00

      This session for SIB PhDs and postdocs aims at showcasing various career paths in bioinformatics. Each career path presentation lasts approx. 15 minute, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

      Room: Workshop 1+2 (1st floor)

    • Council of Group Leaders

      16:00 - 18:00

      Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

  • Tuesday 25 June

    • Arrival & registration

      08:30 - 09:30

      Croissants & coffee

    • Welcome speech

      09:30 - 09:45

      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès

    • Opening keynote lecture

      09:45 - 10:45

      Janet Thornton, Former director of EMBL-EBI

      Session chairs: 
      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès

    • Meet your peers - Interactive discussion sessions

      10:50 - 11:50

      More infos and how to submit a topic: here

    • Lunch break

      12:00 - 13:00

    • Parallel session 1

      13:00 - 14:00

      • Navigating the rapidly expanding space of Genes and Genomes

        Session chairs: Maria Anisimova and David Francisco
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations (TBA)

        Poster pitches (TBA)



      • Innovative tools to address bio-macromolecular structure and dynamics

        Session chairs: Andrea Cavalli & Joana Pereira
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Room: Workshop 1+2 (1st floor)

        Ad hoc session organized by Clément Parisato, Senior legal officer.

        More info here



    • Parallel session 2

      14:00 - 15:00

    • Ad hoc session

      14:00 - 16:00

      Room: Workshop 1+2 (1st floor)

      Ad hoc session for employees, organized by SIB People & Culture, together with the Diversity focus group.

      More info here

    • Poster session 1 & Coffee break

      15:00 - 16:15

      Room: gallery (1st floor)

    • Panel discussion / debate (details to be announced)

      16:15 - 17:15

    • SIB days summer party

      18:30 - 01:00

  • Wednesday 26 June

    • Lottery prize draw

      09:15 - 09:30

    • Parallel session 3

      09:30 - 10:30

      • Personalised health and disease, from molecules to systems

        Session chairs: Janna Hastings and Patrick Pedrioli
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Unraveling ecosystem complexity with bioinformatics

        Session chairs: Germán Bonilla-Rosso & Catalina Chaparro Pedraza
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés 

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

    • Coffee break

      10:30 - 11:00

    • Parallel session 4

      11:00 - 12:00

      • Mathematical and computational approaches to solve biological problems

        Session chairs: Mark Ibberson & Sandra Mitrović
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD

        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Proteins and proteomes, from data to knowledge

        Session chairs: Frédérique Lisacek and Witold Wolski
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD

        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Room: Workshop 1+ 2 (1st floor)

        Ad hoc session organized by Séverine Duvaud, Team Lead, Biodata Resources, to discover the SIB Resources.

        More info here

    • Lunch break

      12:00 - 13:15

    • SIB Remarkable Outputs

      13:15 - 14:15

      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès
      Session chairs: Luciano Cascione & Frédérique Lisacek

        • Marco Varrone, CellCharter reveals spatial cell niches associated with tissue remodeling and cell plasticity
        • Pedro Beltrao, Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe
        • Geert van Geest: Glittr.org: Find and Compare Git Repositories with Bioinformatics Training Materials
        • Julien Racle: Machine learning predictions of MHC-II specificities reveal alternative binding mode of class II epitopes
        • Stefan Stark: Learning Single-Cell Perturbation Responses using Neural Optimal Transport
        • Xian Ge Luo: Mining tumor mutation trees with TreeMHN for evolution-guided precision oncology
        • Joana Pereira: Protein Universe Atlas

    • Poster session 2 - with Beers & Bretzels

      14:15 - 15:30

      Room: gallery (1st floor)

    • Closing keynote lecture

      15:30 - 16:20

      Obi Griffith, Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Genetics and Assistant Director of the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University

      Open Science Bioinformatics Resources for Precision Oncology

      Session chairs:
      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès

    • Poster & lottery prizes and closing remarks

      16:20 - 16:35