PROGRAM
Days: Sunday, February 15th Monday, February 16th
Sunday, February 15th
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09:20-10:20 Session 2: Keynote-I: Giri Narasimhan: ML for Structural Biology
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Location: Room A/B
10:20-11:20 Session 3: ICCABS-I
Chair:
Location: Room A/B
| 10:20 | Benchmarking foundation models for splice site and exon annotation (abstract) |
| 10:40 | Cross-Attention Transformer for Prostate Cancer Grading with LLM-Guided Histopathology Descriptions (abstract) |
| 11:00 | NeuroGAN-3D: Enhancing Intrinsic Functional Brain Networks via High-Fidelity 3D Generative Super-Resolution (abstract) |
11:20-11:40Coffee Break
11:40-13:00 Session 4A: CASCODA-I
Chair:
Location: Room C/D
| 11:40 | Methods for Spatial Analysis of Immune Cell Interaction in Breast Cancer (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Noise reduction methods for single cell RNA and VDJ sequencing data (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Diversity and Distinctive Characteristics of the Global RNA Virome in Urban & Peri-urban Environments (abstract) |
| 12:40 | Inferring mutational order via a novel dependency graph-based approach (abstract) |
11:40-13:00 Session 4B: CAMeRA-I
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Location: Room A/B
| 11:40 | AmpliconHunter2: a SIMD-Accelerated In-Silico PCR Engine (abstract) |
| 12:00 | All Edges Lead to Nodes: Can Multiple Methods Lead to the Same Hi-C Contact Maps? (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Branch lengths inference and its application in beta diversity computation (abstract) |
| 12:40 | Foundation Models for Gut Microbiome Representation Learning (abstract) |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break (lunch provided)
14:00-15:10 Session 5: Keynote-II: Alex Dornburg: The Hidden Structure of Disease and Immunity
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Location: Room A/B
15:10-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:10 Session 6A: CASCODA-II
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Location: Room C/D
| 15:30 | Computational Inference of CRC Cancer Gene Mutation Order (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Manifold learning reveals cell cycle plasticity underlying fractional resistance to palbociclib in ER+/HER2− breast tumor cells (abstract) |
| 16:10 | A Comprehensive Benchmark of Discrepancies Across Microbial Genome Reference Databases (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Compactly Representing a set of Tumor Phylogenies (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Cell-to-Cell Communication Analysis in Skin Cancer Using Cell Chat (abstract) |
15:30-17:10 Session 6B: CAME-I
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Location: Room A/B
| 15:30 | Predicting clonal progression in cancers with blood-based genomics (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Identification of ADAR editing signatures across bacterial, viral, and fungal infections (abstract) |
| 16:10 | Embedding-based methodology for Balanced Minimum Evolution phylogenetic inference (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Benchmarking Deep Generative Models for Antibody Design and Optimization: A Systematic Evaluation (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Uncovering Hierarchical Structure in LLM Embeddings with $\delta$-Hyperbolicity, Ultrametricity, and Neighbor Joining (abstract) |
Monday, February 16th
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09:00-10:40 Session 7A: CANGS-1
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Location: Room C/D
| 09:00 | Enhancement of the Genetic Algorithm using Saltation (abstract) |
| 09:20 | Structured Modeling of Allelic-specific Gene Expression (abstract) |
| 09:40 | A classification pipeline for B-ALL genomic subtypes using Nanopore mRNA-sequencing (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Integrating Sparse Sequence, Experimental, and AI-Predicted Structural Information for Genome-Scale Protein–Nucleic Acid Interaction Prediction (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Computational Genomics for Polyploid Organisms: Distinguishing paradigms for post-polyploid evolution (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 7B: CAME-II
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Location: Room A/B
| 09:00 | Using gene-specific ADAR editing profiles as blood-based biomarkers for neuropsychiatric disorders (abstract) |
| 09:20 | Comparing Hamming distance vs LLM Embedding distance metrics in Evolutionary Space (abstract) |
| 09:40 | Interpreting Infectious Disease Surveillance During Armed Conflict: War-Driven Epidemiological Divergence (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Trustworthy Multimodal LLMs for Medical Diagnostics via Confidence Calibration (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Machine Learning Approaches for Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer (abstract) |
10:40-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 8A: ICCABS-II
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Location: Room A/B
| 11:00 | Exploring the Causal Relationship between the Gut Microbiome and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (abstract) |
| 11:20 | “You Can’t Deny Who You Are”: Cross-Sectional Dimensionality Reduction Reveals Strongest Connection Between Identity and Lower GI Microbial Composition (abstract) |
| 11:40 | LLM-GeneTxGraph: A LLM-based Knowledge Graph Generation Framework for Gene-gene Network and Downstream Tasks (abstract) |
| 12:00 | POSTER TALK: LV-Vis: A Memory-Efficient Large Volume Visualization System Using a Multilevel Octree (abstract) |
| 12:10 | POSTER TALK: Computerized Tomography Localized Starburst Artifact Reduction using View Angle Shift Bayesian Optimization (abstract) |
| 12:20 | POSTER TALK: Vibration Correction For High-Resolution Synchrotron Computerized Tomography Using SIREN and Gradient Descent (abstract) |
| 12:30 | POSTER TALK: From Activity to Potency: An Integrated Machine Learning Framework for HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor Discovery (abstract) |
11:00-12:40 Session 8B: ICCABS-III
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Location: Room C/D
| 11:00 | XMorph: Explainable Brain Tumor Analysis Via LLM-Assisted Hybrid Deep Intelligence (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Using Cluster Quality Metrics for Record Linkage Evaluation (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Leveraging Vision Transformers and Traditional Classifiers for Accurate Gastrointestinal Disease Detection (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Selene: Faster Detection of Microsatellite Instability in Cancer Transcriptomics Using k-mer Filtering (abstract) |
| 12:20 | ImmuneBoost: A Gradient Boosting Machine Learning Model for Neoepitopes Classification (abstract) |
12:40-14:00Lunch Break (lunch provided)
14:00-15:10 Session 9: Keynote-IV: Benjamin Callahan: More Signal from Microbiome Data by Modeling Measurement Error
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Location: Room A/B
15:10-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:10 Session 10A: CAMeRA-II
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Location: Room C/D
| 15:30 | Critical Evaluation of Long Read Taxonomic Profiling of the Gut Microbiome (abstract) |
| 15:50 | Whole Metagenome Sequencing: not Deep Enough for Complete Microbial Function Recovery (abstract) |
| 16:10 | Efficient Metagenomic Analysis via Quantization (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Reconstruction of Cancer Evolutionary History From Single Cell Data (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Pushing the Limits of Long-Read, Low-Biomass Metagenomics (abstract) |
15:30-17:10 Session 10B: CANGS-II + CAME-III + CASCODA-III
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Location: Room A/B
| 15:30 | HexSplit: An Improved Computational Approach for Detecting Partial Gene Transfer (abstract) |
| 15:50 | On campus dormitories as viral transmission sinks: Phylodynamic insights into student housing networks during the COVID-19 pandemic (abstract) |
| 16:10 | DANCE: Deep Learning-Assisted Analysis of ProteiN Sequences Using Chaos Enhanced Kaleidoscopic Images (abstract) |
| 16:30 | AtlasCollect: A Single Cell Data Atlas Tool and Unified Platform for Datasets Collection and Integration (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Reconstructing intra-tumor fitness landscapes from scSeq CNA profiles via simulation-based Bayesian inference and Deep Learning (abstract) |