PROGRAMME

August 21

3F, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center

Time

Program

Remark

14:00 - 17:00

Sign In

 

14:00 - 17:00

Poster Preparation

 

16:00 - 17:00

Social Hours

 

17:00

Shuttle Bus Back to Prama Hotel / Sanur Area

August 22

Venue: Awan Auditorium, 3F

Time

Program

Speaker

08:20 - 09:00

Sign In

Opening

Chair: Xuegong Zhang (Chair, ISCB-China; Vice President, ISCB; Professor, Tsinghua University)

09:00 - 09:05

Opening by Predrag Radivojac (President, ISCB; Professor, Northeastern University)

09:05 - 09:45

Keynote Speech: AI co-scientists: the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence tools in science

Karin Verspoor (Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University)

Invited Talk

Chair: Xing-Ming Zhao (Professor, Fudan University)

09:45 - 10:10

Invited Talk: Decoding 3D Gene Regulation with AI

In-Kyung Jeong (Steering Committee Member, Korea Society of Bioinformatics)

10:10 - 10:35

Invited Talk: Exosome Atlas DB: A Key Infrastructure for Biomarker Discovery

Seongho Ryu (President, Korea Society of Bioinformatics; Sooncheonhyang University)

10:35 - 10:50

Group Photo and Break

Session 1. Single-Cell & Spatial Multi-Omics Integration
Chair: Doheon Lee (Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

10:50 - 11:05

Scalable sample demultiplexing in ultra-high-throughput scRNA-seq with HT-Demux

Xinzhu Jiang (Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)

11:05 - 11:20

Decoding Hierarchical Cell-Cell Communication in Spatial Multi-Omics with CellSTIC

Yungang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

11:20 - 11:35

Domain-Adversarial Multi-Scale Autoencoder for Cross-Sample and Cross-Platform Spatial Transcriptomics Integration

Dong Zhang (SJTU)

 

11:35 - 11:50

TGDAC: Transformer-Based Graph Deep Clustering with Dual Distribution Alignment for single-cell RNA-seq

Zhendong Liu (Shanghai Polytechnic University)

11:50 - 12:05

Semantic-Aware Spatial Representation Learning for Spatial Domain Identification

Yawen Lu(hkust(gz))

12:05 - 13:15

Lunch (Outside or in Tech Incubator Room, 3F)

Session 1. Single-Cell & Spatial Multi-Omics Integration
Chair: Yun-Gang Xu (Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University)

13:15 - 13:30

Grounded integration of single-cell multi-omics data with CITE-pool

Xinzhu Jiang (Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)

13:30 - 13:45

Safe Fusion for scRNA-seq Dropout Imputation with Uncertainty Gating and CITE-seq Validation

Yunwei Zhao (New York University)

13:45 - 14:00

Intelligent ensemble learning for single cell data analysis

Hao Jiang (Renmin University of China)

Session 2: Single-Cell Modeling & Perturbation Analysis

Chaired by Dr. Ning Shen (Professor, Zhejiang University)

14:00 - 14:15

Stochastic Dynamics Inference and Applications Based on Landscape Theory

Chunhe Li (Fudan University)

14:15 - 14:30

VelODE Reconciles RNA Velocity and Developmental Trajectories for Robust Reconstruction of Cellular Dynamics

Yunhao Qiao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

14:30 - 14:45

iPerturb: Population-scale integration of multi-condition single-cell RNA-seq data to detect perturbation-responsive cell populations and genes

Ye Li (School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University)

14:45 - 15:00

CancerZigZag: Iterative Seed-Anchored Diffusion for Generative Modeling of Single-Cell State Transitions

Johannes Schlüter (Universität Bielefeld)

15:00 - 15:15

OmniCell: Unified Foundation Modeling of Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics for Cellular and Molecular Insights

Yiting Deng (BGI Research, Beijing)

15:15 - 15:30

Cellfm-datasets: A Unified Data Infrastructure for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Foundation Model Pretraining

Youzhe He (BGI research, Hang zhou)

15:30 - 15:45

How different AI models understand cells differently

Yubo Zhao (Tsinghua University)

15:45 - 16:00

A mechanism-informed deep neural network enables prioritization of regulators that drive cell state transitions

Xi Xi (Beijing Institute of Technology)

16:00 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 17:30

Panel Discussion
Chair: Hyerin Kim (Senior Research Scientist, Center for Bioinformatics, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB))

Panelists

1. Prof. Doheon Lee (KAIST): systems biology & biomedical knowledge/AI

2. Prof. Daehyun Baek (Seoul National University): RNA bioinformatics (miRNA) & genomics

3. Dr. Junhak Lee (KISTI): HPC & AI infrastructure for bioscience

4. Prof. Minho Lee (Dongguk University): bioinformatics & cancer genomics

5. Dr. Toshiaki Katayama (DBCLS): life science database integration & Semantic Web

18:00 - 19:30

Welcome Dinner

20:00

Shuttle Bus Back to Prama Hotel / Sanur Area

August 23

Venue: Awan Auditorium, 3F

Time

Program

Speaker

08:20 - 09:00

Sign In

Keynote Speech
Chair: Xuegong Zhang (Chair, ISCB-China; Vice President, ISCB; Professor, Tsinghua University)

09:00 - 09:40

Keynote Speech: Data and AI-driven Exploration of the Human Gut Microbiome

Xing-Ming Zhao (Fudan University)

Invited Talk
Chair: Shuhua Xu (Professor, Fudan University)

09:40 - 10:05

Invited Talk: Spatiotemporal Proteomics for Constructing Virtual Cell Models

Tiannan Guo (Westlake University)

10:05 - 10:20

Break

 

Session 3: Sequence Modeling: from DNA to RNA
Chair: Anyuan Guo (Associate Dean‌, Professor‌, Sichuan University)

10:20 - 10:35

Profiling genomic language models as individuals in a population

Yusen Hou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))

10:35 - 10:50

Benchmarking pre-trained genomic language models for RNA sequence-related predictive applications

Ningyuan You (Zhejiang University)

10:50 - 11:05

R-loop Prediction Reveals Generalization Limits of DNA Foundation Models Beyond Regulatory Genomics

Yafan Zhang (Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University)

11:05 - 11:20

LUNA-FM: A subword foundation model for long non-coding RNAs for functional inference

Naima Vahab (RMIT University)

11:20 - 11:35

Toward a paradigm shift from data to theory: AI-driven representation of biological sequences

Zhang Zhang (China National Center for Bioinformation)

11:35 - 11:50

CyanoDiff: Class-Conditional Cyanobacterial Promoter Generation via Masked Diffusion Language Modeling

Guang Yang (School of Life Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University)

11:50 - 13:15

Lunch (Outside or in Tech Incubator Room, 3F)

Session 3: Sequence Modeling: from DNA to RNA
Chair: Zhang Zhang (Distinguished Professor‌, BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:15 - 13:30

Context-aware prediction of RNA-centric interactions using deep learning

Bin Zhang (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

13:30 - 13:45

PHOCI: Predictor of Higher-Order Chromatin Interactions

Kai Huang (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)

13:45 - 14:00

Retracing the Process of Translation: Proteome-wide mapping of stable transcriptomic predictors of protein abundance in cancer cell lines

Johannes Schlüter (Universität Bielefeld)

Session 4: Protein Structure, Interaction & Molecular Design

Chair: Jin-Wu Nam (Professor, Hanyang University)

14:00 - 14:15

AlphaFold 3 Fails to Predict D-peptide Chirality, Fold, and Binding Pose in Heterochiral Complexes

Henry Childs (Duke University)

14:15 - 14:30

An Improved Significance Metric for Searching Protein Motifs with Folddisco

Jaewon Yoon (Seoul National University)

14:30 - 14:45

InteractionFormeR: SE(3)-Equivariant Proteome-Scale Interactome Simulation on Resource-Constrained Hardware

Aaryan Senthilvanan (S.Y.A.L.I.S Labs)

14:45 - 15:00

CCK* (Convex Closure K*): A Suite of Algorithms for De Novo L- and D-peptide Design

Henry Childs (Duke University)

15:00 - 15:15

Tri-Modality Representation Learning for Molecular Property Prediction

Jing Li (Case Western Reserve University)

15:15 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 17:15 Poster Flash Talk

Chair: Feng-Lin Liu (Professor, Peking University)


Domain-Adaptive Language Models for Pathogen Genomic and Proteomic Intelligence

Shuhui Song (Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS)


Predicting Protein - Protein Interactions with Models for Target Proteins

Bruno Rafael Florentino (University of São Paulo)


Accessibility in proteins and RNAs interactions prediction with machine learning: are we overlooking non-experts?

Bruno Rafael Florentino (University of São Paulo)


MI-MBF: AMutualInformation -Markov Blanket Feature Selection Algorithm for High-Dimensional Gene Data and Liver Cancer Biomarker Discovery

Xiaoyang Wang (University of Science and Technololy Beijing)


AI-assisted data mining platform for target, biomarker and mechanism discovery

Sukjoon Yoon (Sookmyung Women's University)


Cooperation Between Joint and Individual Modalities for Multi-Omics Cancer Subtyping

Debanjan Chakraborty (Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)


GenomeHarness: Harnessing AI Agents for Reliable Adaptation of Genome Language Models

Yusen Hou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))


ProtAug: An Empirical Investigation of pLM-Guided Data Augmentation for Protein Sequence Prediction Tasks

Zhuoyang Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))


FlowCap: Multi-objective generation of receptor-specific AAV capsids via discrete flow matching

Won Joon Kim (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)


A DeepSurv-Based Integrative Framework for Identifying Autophagy-Associated Prognostic RNA-Binding Proteins in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Shifei Wei (the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University)


An EM-based procedure for Improved Taxonomic Assignment of Metagenomic reads

YaeJi Kim (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)


A seamless web workflow integrating Foldseek, FoldMason, and Folddisco for end-to-end protein structure analysis

Younghoon Lee (Seoul National University)


AlphaFold Database expands to proteome-scale quaternary structures

Han Yewon (Seoul National University)


MetaAttendant: A Leakage-Safe Benchmark and Ontology-Grounded Framework for Single-Cell Metadata Curation

Chunryong Oh (Center for Bioinformatics, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB))


What do LLMs know about cell signalling? Introducing CellSigBench, a literature-density-stratified evaluation using OmniPath

Syed Tauheed Ahmad (Precision Medicine Lab)


Towards a Causality-Oriented Regulatory Foundation Model based on Large-Scale Perturbation-Free Data

Cheng Li (Peking University)


A protocol for cross-platform integration of high-content screening profiles to predict small-molecule function

Siyuan Ye (Fudan University)


Multi-omics data-fusion uncovers distinct molecular signatures of intra-articular micro-fragmented adipose tissue versus hyaluronic acid treatments in inflammatory knee osteoarthritis

Noel Malod (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI))


Exploiting the Linearity of Joint Embedding Spaces to Mine Cancer Precision Medicine Knowledge

Natasa Przulj (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI))

17:30

Shuttle Bus Back to Prama Hotel / Sanur Area

August 24

Venue: Awan Auditorium, 3F

Time

Program

Speaker

Session 5: Multi-Omics Integration, Disease Prediction & Biomedical Reasoning
Chair: Hairong Lv (Researcher, Tsinghua University)

09:00 - 09:15

BioREASONIC: A Causal-Oriented GraphRAG System for Multi-Omics Biomedical Reasoning

Sakhaa Alsaedi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST))

09:15 - 09:30

MoPE-MOI: A Mixture-of-Pathway-Experts Framework for Interpretable Multi-Omics Integration

Zhe Liu (Seoul National University)

09:30 - 09:45

GAE-Delta: A Graph-Learning Framework for Gene Network Rewiring and Clinical Outcome Prediction from Multi-Omics Data

Zhiyong Tang (University of Southampton)

09:45 - 10:00

Profiling Gastrointestinal Cancer Subtypes through Integrated Analysis of Tumor Microenvironment Genomic and Microbial Features

Xiaoyang Wang (University of Science and Technololy Beijing)

10:00 - 10:15

Learning Shift-Invariant Graph Representations for Cox Survival on Multi-Modal Cancer Data

Lingxi Chen (City University of Hong Kong)

10:15 - 10:30     Break

Session 5: Multi-Omics Integration, Disease Prediction & Biomedical Reasoning

Chair: Xuegong Zhang (Chair, ISCB-China; Vice President, ISCB; Professor, Tsinghua University)

10:30 - 10:45

A Deep Representation Learning Method for Quantitative Immune Defense Function Evaluation and Its Clinical Applications

Anyuan Guo (Sichuan University)

10:45 - 11:00

Patient-level drug response prediction through dual adversarial alignment of pre- and post-drug treatment transcriptomic states

Sugyun An (AIGENDRUG)

11:00 - 11:15

ROCKET: Risk-Oriented Causal Knowledge - Enriched Topology for Enhancing Healthcare Predictions

Sakhaa Alsaedi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST))

11:15 - 11:30

DeepMAP: A Pretrained Multimodal Framework for Connecting Disease with Therapeutic Compounds

Zhi Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

11:30 - 11:45

synerOmics: Machine Learning-Driven Discovery of Synergistic Protein Interactions Underlying Cancer Drug Response

Priya Ramarao-Milne (CSIRO)

11:45 - 12:00

Deep learning prioritizes cancer mutations that alter protein nucleocytoplasmic shuttling to drive tumorigenesis

Zexian Liu (Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center)

12:00 - 13:15

Lunch (Outside or in Tech Incubator Room, 3F)

Session 5: Multi-Omics Integration, Disease Prediction & Biomedical Reasoning

Chair: Hao Jiang (Renmin University of China)

13:15 - 13:30

WACA-DTA: Logit-Level Geometric and Hydration Biases for Structure-Conditioned Drug - Target Affinity Prediction

Kehan Huang (China pharmauciutical university)

Session 6: Fitness and Cross-Species

Chair: Toshiaki Katayama (Professor, Database Center for Life Science)

13:45 - 14:00

ArchaicSeeker 3.0: A deep-learning framework for scalable, haplotype-resolved inference of archaic introgression

Shuhua Xu (Fudan University)

14:00 - 14:15

CrossGapFilling: Context-Aware Deep Learning for Cross-Species Metabolic Network Gap-Filling

Ziwei Yang (Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)

14:15 - 14:30

ANIMA: A Cross-Species Approach for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction

Bruno Rafael Florentino (University of São Paulo)

14:30 - 14:45    Closing by Xuegong Zhang (Chair, ISCB-China; Vice President, ISCB; Professor, Tsinghua University)

14:45 - 15:45    Poster & Exhibitions

16:00           Shuttle Bus Back to Prama Hotel/Sanur Area

 

 

 

 

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