{"id":4739,"date":"2024-02-13T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/?page_id=4739"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:04:26","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4739\" class=\"elementor elementor-4739\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e00887b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e00887b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6b964aa\" data-id=\"6b964aa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c4b51e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6c4b51e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><div id=\"pagewrap\"><div class=\"dokuwiki\"><div id=\"content\"><div class=\"page\"><h2 class=\"sectionedit1\" id=\"program\"><\/h2><h2 class=\"sectionedit1\" id=\"program\">Programme<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca7124b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca7124b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The scientific program includes keynotes by leading researchers in the field (<a href=\"#keynoteRattei\">Prof Thomas Rattei<\/a> and <a href=\"#keynoteDenaxas\">Prof Spiros Denaxas<\/a>).<\/p><h2>Schedule<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba654d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ekit_wb_4478\" data-id=\"ba654d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ekit_wb_4478.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div style=\"justify-content: center; display:flex\">\n<div class=\"box-green\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"container\" style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center;\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size:64px\">\n  <\/span>\n\n<div class=\"ml-5\" style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div>\n\n <div class=\"level2\">\n<div class=\"wrap_box wrap_round plugin_wrap\">\n<div class=\"table sectionedit2\">\n<h2><strong>Wednesday, 23 July 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table class=\"inline\" style=\"height: 1265px;\" width=\"578\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row0\">\n<td class=\"col0\" style=\"width: 10%;\">11:20<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\" style=\"width: 50%;\"><strong>CAMDA Welcome &amp; Overview<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\" style=\"width: 40%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row1\">\n<td class=\"col0\">11:30<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\"><strong>CAMDA Keynote: Genome-based prediction of microbial traits<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Thomas Rattei<\/strong>, <em>University of Vienna, Austria<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"col0\">12:20<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">The Anti-Microbial Resistance Prediction Challenge - <strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Leonid Chidelevitch<\/strong>, <em>Imperial College London, U.K.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row3\">\n<td class=\"col0\">12:40<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">A Hybrid Pipeline for Feature Reduction, and Ordinal Classification to Predict Antimicrobial Resistance from Genetic Profiles<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Anton Pashkov<\/strong>, <em>ENES Morelia UNAM, Mexico<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row4\">\n<td class=\"col0\">13:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\"><em>Lunch<\/em><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row5\">\n<td class=\"col0\">14:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance Using Microbiome-Pretrained DNABERT2 and DBGWAS-Derived Genomic Features<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Jack Vaska<\/strong>, <em>Stony Brook University, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row6\">\n<td class=\"col0\">14:40<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">The Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction Challenge<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Alper Yurtseven<\/strong>, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland<em>, Germany<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row7\">\n<td class=\"col0\">15:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction via Binary Ensemble Classifier and Assessment of Variable Importance<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Owen Visser<\/strong>, <em>University of Florida, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row8\">\n<td class=\"col0\">15:10<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">A Highly Accurate Workflow for Inference of Antimicrobial Resistance from Genetic Data Based on Machine Learning and Global Data Curation<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>David Danko<\/strong>, <em>Biotia Inc, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row9\">\n<td class=\"col0\">15:20<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">The Gut Microbiome Health Index Challenge - <strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Kinga Zieli\u0144ska<\/strong>, <em>Ma\u0142opolska Centre of Biotechnology of Jagiellonian University, Poland<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row10\">\n<td class=\"col0\">15:40<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Integrating Taxonomic and Functional Features for Gut Microbiome Health Indexing<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Rafael P\u00e9rez-Estrada<\/strong>, <em>Centro de Ciencias Matem\u00e1ticas, UNAM, Mexico<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row11\">\n<td class=\"col0\">16:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\"><em>Afternoon break with posters<\/em><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row12\">\n<td class=\"col0\">16:40<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Building a Rare-Disease Microbiome Health Index: Integrating Gut Metagenomes, Synthetic PKU EHRs and Rare-Variant Profiles to Forecast Phenylalanine Crises<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Khartik Uppalapati<\/strong>, <em>RareGen Youth Network, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row12\">\n<td class=\"col0\">17:20<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Toward the Development of a Novel and Comprehensive Gut Health Index: An Ensemble Model Integrating Taxonomic and Functional Profiles<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Vincent Mel<\/strong>, <em>University of Florida, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row13\">\n<td class=\"col0\">17:40<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Topology-Enabled Integration of Taxonomic and Functional Microbiome Profiles Reveals Distinct Subgroups in Healthy Individuals<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Doroteya Staykova<\/strong>, <em>Multicore Dynamics Ltd, Bulgaria\/U.K.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row14\">\n<td class=\"col0\">17:50<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Ensemble-Based Topic Selection for Text Classification via a Grouping, Scoring, and Modeling Approach<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><strong>Malik Yousef<\/strong>, <em>Zefat College, Israel<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row16\">\n<td class=\"col0\">18:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\"><strong>1st day summary<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row18\">\n<td class=\"col0\">19:00<\/td>\n<td class=\"col1\">Come Together: A Night of Networking &amp; Fun<\/td>\n<td class=\"col2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.punchtarmeys.co.uk\/\">Punch Tarmey's<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> \n\n<\/div>\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" style=\"display: noneblock\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/www.iscb.org\/ismbeccb2025\/register'\">Register for the conference<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-826e616 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ekit_wb_4478\" data-id=\"826e616\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ekit_wb_4478.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div style=\"justify-content: center; display:flex\">\n<div class=\"box-green\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"container\" style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center;\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size:64px\">\n  <\/span>\n\n<div class=\"ml-5\" style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div>\n\n <div class=\"level2\"><div class=\"wrap_box wrap_round plugin_wrap\"><div class=\"table sectionedit2\"><h2><strong>Thursday, 24 July 2025<\/strong><\/h2><table class=\"inline\" style=\"height: 1266px;\" width=\"585\"><tbody><tr class=\"row0\"><td class=\"col0\" style=\"width: 10%;\">08:40<\/td><td class=\"col1\" style=\"width: 50%;\"><strong>CAMDA Welcome\u00a0<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\" style=\"width: 40%;\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row1\"><td class=\"col0\">08:40<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><strong>CAMDA Keynote: Data, Diagnoses, and Discovery: Improving Healthcare through Electronic Health Records<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\"><b>Spiros <\/b><b>Denaxas<\/b>, <em>University College London, U.K.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row1_1\"><td class=\"col0\">09:25<\/td><td class=\"col1\">The Synthetic Clinical Health Records Challenge - <strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\"><b>Carlos Loucera<\/b>, <em>FPS, Seville, Spain<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row2\"><td class=\"col0\">09:40<\/td><td class=\"col1\">Stage-Disease Grouping, Scoring, and Modeling for Predicting Diabetes Complications from Electronic Health Records<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Daniel Voskergian<\/strong>, \u00a0<em>Al-Quds University, Palestine<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row3\"><td class=\"col0\">10:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><em>Morning Break with Posters<\/em><\/td><td class=\"col2\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row4\"><td class=\"col0\">11:20<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><strong>Invited talk<\/strong>: Benchmarking for Better Private Algorithms<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Antti Honkela,<\/strong> <em>Univerity of Helsinki, Finland<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row5\"><td class=\"col0\">12:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\">The Health Privacy Challenge - <strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Hakime \u00d6zt\u00fcrk<\/strong>, <em>EMBL Germany<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row6\"><td class=\"col0\">12:20<\/td><td class=\"col1\">The Health Privacy - <strong>Panel discussion<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\"><b>Spiros Denaxas <\/b>(UCL, U.K.)<b>, Oliver Stegle<\/b> (EMBL, DE)<b>, Antti Honkela<\/b> (UoH, FI)<b>, David Kreil<\/b> (BOKU, AT)<b>, Wenzhong Xiao<\/b> (MGH\/Stanford, U.S.A.)<b>, Joaquin Dopazo<\/b> (FPS, ES)<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row7\"><td class=\"col0\">13:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><em>Lunch<\/em><\/td><td class=\"col2\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row8\"><td class=\"col0\">14:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #e2ede4; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" name=\"2164\"><\/a>Synthetic genomic data generation through Differential Privacy-enhanced Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (DP-NMF)<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Andrew Wicks<\/strong>, <em>DFKZ, Germany<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row9\"><td class=\"col0\">14:20<\/td><td class=\"col1\">Synthetic Data Generation for bulk RNA-seq Data: A CAMDA Health Challenge Analysis<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Shane Menzies<\/strong>, <em>University of Washington, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row10\"><td class=\"col0\">14:40<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Comparison of Single Cell RNA Synthetic Data Generators: A CAMDA Health Challenge Analysis<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Patrick McKeever<\/strong>, <em>University of Washington, U.S.A.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row11\"><td class=\"col0\">14:50<\/td><td class=\"col1\">NoisyDiffusion: Privacy Preserving Synthetic Gene Expression Data Generation<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Jules Kreuer<\/strong>, <em>University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row12\"><td class=\"col0\">15:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\">Reusability of Public Omics Data Across 6 Million Publications<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Viorel Munteanu<\/strong>, <em>University of Suceava, Romania; Technical University of Moldova, Moldova<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row12\"><td class=\"col0\">15:10<\/td><td class=\"col1\">Pre-publication sharing of omics data improves paper citations<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Serghei Mangul<\/strong>, <em>Sage Bionetworks, USA, and University of Suceava, Romania<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row13\"><td class=\"col0\">15:20<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><strong>ISMB\/ECCB Proceedings:<\/strong> HI-MGSyn: A Hypergraph and Interaction-aware Multi-Granularity Network for Predicting Synergistic Drug Combinations<\/td><td class=\"col2\"><strong>Yuexi Gu<\/strong>, <em>Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University,\u00a0 China<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row14\"><td class=\"col0\">15:40<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><strong>CAMDA Trophy<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"row16\"><td class=\"col0\">18:00<\/td><td class=\"col1\"><strong>Conference closing<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"col2\">\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div> \n\n<\/div>\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" style=\"display: noneblock\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/www.iscb.org\/ismbeccb2025\/register'\">Register for the conference<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c81f18a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c81f18a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Keynotes<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-3d7b19c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3d7b19c\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"keynoteRattei\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-bbfbd62\" data-id=\"bbfbd62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-729ccbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"729ccbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cube.univie.ac.at\/rattei\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-202x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-5835\" alt=\"Thomas Rattei\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-688x1024.png 688w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-768x1143.png 768w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-672x1000.png 672w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116-480x714.png 480w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/05\/obraz_2025-05-07_160540116.png 885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f09a1a7\" data-id=\"f09a1a7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da5bdeb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"da5bdeb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cube.univie.ac.at\/rattei\/\">Prof Thomas Rattei<\/a><\/h3><p>Head of the Division of Computational Systems Biology, Vice-head of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science,\u00a0<br \/>University of Vienna, Austria<\/p><p><strong>Keynote Title: Genome-based prediction of microbial traits<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d11a67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d11a67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">Abstract:\u00a0<\/em>The prediction of phenotypic traits from genomic information is an ongoing challenge in computational biology. Although the fundamental principles of information encoding in genomes have been studied since decades and allowed first directed modifications, the expression of phenotypic traits is often the result of complex interactions. Predictive approaches in bioinformatics therefore focus on machine learning from labeled genomic data.<\/p><p>During the last years, we have focused on the computational prediction of microbial phenotypic traits from metagenomic data. These data have been collected on large scale, to explore the diversity and composition of microbial communities and to correlate them with environmental factors (e.g. human health and disease). The prediction of traits for these millions of genomes, based on neural networks that use protein families as features, goes one step further and can be used in first applications.<\/p><p><em style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">About the speaker:<\/em>\u00a0<b>Professor Thomas Rattei <\/b>is a chemist by training. He is Professor for &#8220;In silico genomics&#8221; at the University of Vienna since 2010.<\/p><p>Thomas Rattei\u2019s work covers a wide spectrum of topics from bioinformatics, genome and metagenome analysis and systems biology. He has long-standing expertise in developing and applying computational methods for the interpretation of large-scale sequence information. The international reputation of his research group triggered their involvement in numerous international (meta-) genome sequencing and analysis consortia.<\/p><p>Thomas\u2019 research activities not only cover individual, project-specific questions but also general problems in bioinformatics, computational infrastructure, and large-scale biological databases. Furthermore, his group develops novel, genome-based computational approaches for studying molecular inter-species interactions, such as between hosts and pathogens, between symbionts, or in microbial ecosystems.<\/p><p>Thomas and his team maintain and develop internationally relevant resources in computational biology, such as the web portals phendb.org, vogdb.org and effectivedb.org for microbial trait prediction, virus orthologous groups and protein families, and bacterial secreted proteins and secretion systems.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-14b4020 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14b4020\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"keynoteDenaxas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c06e35\" data-id=\"7c06e35\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95488bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"95488bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucl.ac.uk\/1501\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-209x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-5993\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-1071x1536.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-1428x2048.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-672x964.jpg 672w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-1038x1489.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1-480x688.jpg 480w, https:\/\/bipress.boku.ac.at\/camda2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/06\/HDRUK-Edinburgh-049-scaled-1.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e992240\" data-id=\"e992240\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2154d8b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2154d8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cube.univie.ac.at\/rattei\/\">Prof Spiros Denaxas<\/a><\/h3><p>Professor of Biomedical Informatics<br \/>Institute of Health Informatics<br \/>University College London, U.K.<\/p><p><strong>Keynote Title: Data, Diagnoses, and Discovery: Improving Healthcare through Electronic Health Records<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-952f4f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"952f4f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">Abstract:<\/em>Electronic health records (EHRs) represent rich, multidimensional data generated through routine interactions within the healthcare system. These records have transformed biomedical research, shifting the traditional approach of studying diseases in isolation toward the simultaneous analysis of thousands of conditions. This talk will explore the unique opportunities and challenges that EHRs present to researchers and highlight best practices through examples.<\/p><p><em style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">About the speaker:<\/em> <strong>Spiros\u00a0Denaxas<\/strong> is Professor of Biomedical Informatics based at the Institute of Health Informatics and Associate Director at the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre leading the Defining Disease work area. His research focuses on developing computational approaches for analyzing large-scale biomedical datasets in a reproducible manner.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e61a20 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e61a20\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ab0264b\" data-id=\"ab0264b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programme The scientific program includes keynotes by leading researchers in the field (Prof Thomas Rattei and Prof Spiros Denaxas). 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