PROGRAMME & AGENDA
The First International Symposium on Computational Biology with AI
iscbAI 2025 Agenda
May 31st | |
8:25 | Gathering at Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |
8:25-8:45 | Shuttle Bus to Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center |
8:45-9:00 | Sign-in and get badge |
9:00-9:05 | Opening Remarks - Xuegong Zhang |
9:05-9:35 | Keynotes |
9:35-10:45 | Session 1 Interpretable AI models for biology and medicine Moderator: Yong Wang/Zhen Xie |
9:35-9:45 Tsung Fei KHANG When Deep Learning Meets Traditional Taxonomy: Divergent Feature Interpretation in Fly Wing Venation Analysis | |
9:45-9:55 Hong Li Interpretable AI Model to Identify Cellular and Spatial Biomarkers | |
9:55-10:05 Ruibang Luo Optimizing long-term prevention of cardiovascular disease with reinforcement learning | |
10:05-10:15 Soichi Ogishima Leveraging Large-scale Genome Cohorts: AI-Driven Prediction Model for Precision Prevention | |
10:15-10:25 Guoqiang Yu Quantification and analysis of molecular spatiotemporal signals with advanced machine learning techniques | |
10:25-10:35 Hebing Chen DNA Damage and Three-dimensional Genome | |
10:35-10:45 Anders Skanderup AI-driven molecular diagnostics in onclogy | |
10:45-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:00 | Session 2 AI foundation models for DNA, RNA and proteins Moderator: Xiaowo Wang/Zhihua Zhang |
11:00-11:10 Tiannan Guo Grow AI virtual cells with perturbation proteomics | |
11:10-11:20 Jian Lu AI-driven analysis of protein translation efficiency through RNA biology integration | |
11:20-11:30 Qiangfeng Zhang Advancing Structural Biology: Harnessing AI Foundation Models for Precision Molecular Structure Determination | |
11:30-11:40 Stephen Bush ANNEVO: A Mixture-of-Experts Genomic Language Model for Evidence-Free, Evolution-Aware Gene Annotation | |
11:40-11:50 Louxin Zhang HIG-Syn: A Hypergraph and Interaction-Aware Deep Learning Model for Precision Prediction of Synergistic Drug Combinations | |
11:50 - 12:00 Yuanhua Huang Assessing large-scale genomic language models in predicting personal gene expression: promises and limitations | |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
13:00-14:00 | Group Discussion: Artificial intelligence vs. human intelligence: Opportunities and concerns Moderator: Xiujie Wang Discussants: Yixue Li, Shihua Zhang, Lu Xie, Zhang Zhang, Zhiwei Cao, Stephen Bush |
14:00-14:20 | Group Picture |
14:20-16:20 | Group Activity |
16:20 | Shuttle Bus to Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |
18:00-20:00 | Welcome Dinner at Beach |
June 1st | |
8:30 | Gathering at Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |
8:30-9:00 | Shuttle Bus to Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center |
9:00-9:30 | Keynotes: Towards a cell in silico |
9:30-10:30 | Session 3 AI for single-cell, spatial omics and multi-omics Moderator:Shihua Zhang/Hongmin Cai/Qi Liu |
9:30-9:40 Boxiang Liu Ancestry- and Sex-Biased Alternative Splicing in Immune Cells: Single-Cell Insights from the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas | |
9:40-9:50 Loza Martin AI-Powered Spatial and Single-Cell Omics Analysis: STAIG and HyGAnno for Enhanced Domain Detection and Cell Type Annotation | |
9:50-10:00 Lin Hou CausalPerturb: AI-Powered Causal Inference for Decoding Single-Cell CRISPR Perturbation Heterogeneity | |
10:00-10:10 Zhiwei Cao Multi-omics-based AI discovery for lung cancer | |
10:10-10:20 Aziz Khan Towards FAIR, diverse and reproducible multi-omics for AI-driven biology | |
10:20-10:30 Jiguang Wang AI-Powered Multi-Omics Integration for Enhanced Cancer Subtyping | |
10:30-10:50 | Break |
10:50-12:00 | Session 4 AI for microbiology, metagenomics & Industrial Applications Moderator: Zhang Zhang/Yixue Li |
10:50-11:00 Didik H. Utomo Exploration of the Scientific Potential of Indonesian Herbal Medicine | |
11:00-11:10 Weihua Chen Best Practices for Developing Microbiome-Based Disease Diagnostic Classifiers through Machine Learning | |
11:10-11:20 Shuhua Xu AI for Human Evolution | |
11:20-11:30 Limsoon Wong SORCERER: Second-Order Relational Contrastive Learning for Robust Knowledge Graph Reasoning | |
11:30-11:40 Joshua Ho AI vs. Cardiologists in Murmur Detection: A Prospective Clinical Benchmark Using Smartphones and Digital Stethoscopes | |
11:40-11:50 Gang Chen From Million Personal Genomes to Personal Omics Intelligence | |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
13:00-14:00 | Group Discussion:Are we assessing the performance of AI on computational biology problems properly? Time for some guidelines? Moderator:Limsoon Wong Discussants: Joshua Ho, Jiangning Song, Tsung Fei Khang, Lin Hou |
14:00-17:30 | Cultural Activity |
17:30 | Shuttle Bus to Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |
June 2nd | |
8:30 | Gathering at Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |
8:30-8:50 | Shuttle Bus to Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center |
9:00-10:00 | Session 5 AI-Enabled Precision Medicine & Biomarker Discovery Moderator:Hairong Lv/Weiwei Zhai |
9:00-9:10 Jiangning Song Accelerating Biomedical Discovery Through Machine Learning: A Unified Framework for Multi-Dimensional Molecular Data Analysis | |
9:10-9:20 Guoliang Li Title: Identification of pan-cancer differentially methylated regions enables non-invasive diagnosis of seven cancer types. | |
9:20-9:30 Anders Skanderup VarNet: An AI-Driven Deep Learni3g Model for Accurate Somatic Variant Detection in Cancer Genomics | |
9:30-9:40 Youqiong Ye Cellular Senescence Detection via Single-cell Foundation Model Identifies Spatially-resolved Senescent Programs Driving Tumor Immune Evasion | |
10:00-10:20 | Break |
10:20-11:20 | Panel Discussion:International Academic Exchanges and Collaborations in AI Computational Biology in the New Era Moderator:Xuegong Zhang Joshua Ho, Aziz Khan, KHANG Tsung Fei, Toshiaki Katayama, Xingming Zhao, Kai Ye |
11:20-11:30 | Closing Remarks - Xiujie Wang Moderator:Xuegong Zhang |
11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
12:30 | Shuttle Bus to Prama Sanur Beach Hotel |