9th UBC Symposium Try out

We are happy to announce that the 9th UBC symposium will take place at the Princess Máxima Center (Utrecht Science Park) on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. At this yearly event, we aim to bring the bioinformatics community working at the Utrecht Science Park together to exchange knowledge and expertise and discuss the latest progress in the field of bioinformatics.

We strongly encourage you to register for the symposium (free registration) and submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the symposium, to promote your bioinformatics research, gain more exposure, and win a cash price of 150 euros!

Wednesday, October 11 2023

6th Floor | Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology |
Heidelberglaan 25 | 3584 CS | Utrecht

Wednesday, October 11 2023

6th Floor | Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology |
Heidelberglaan 25 | 3584 CS | Utrecht

Draft Program

08.30 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome by Dr. …… (…, executive board UBC)
09:15 – 10:00 Keynote speaker: Dr. Ahmed Mahfouz (LUMC) – “Learning cellular response to perturbations from single-cell and spatial genomic data”
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 Lucía Barbadilla Martínez (UMCU) – “Prediction of variant effects on non-coding regions with deep learning models”
11:00 – 11:30 Dr. Timothy Dallman (UU) – “Prediction of clinical outcome of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection using machine learning”
11:30 – 12:00 Dr. Ies Nijman (UMCU) – “Presentation of the AI4UU initiative” & Dr. Nikolas Stathonikos (UMCU) – “AI/ML in clinical practice – Histopathology perspective”
12:00 – 13:30 Walking lunch and Poster Presentations
13:30 – 14:15 Keynote speaker: Dr. Jonas Teuwen (NKI) – “Predicting weak labels in high-dimensional histopathology data”
14:15 – 14:45 Petros Skiadas (UU) – “Studying the highly variable effector repertoire of a major crop pathogen using structural genomics”
14:45 – 15:15 Marc Pagès-Gallego (UMCU) – “Detection of 8-oxodG using Nanopore sequencing and neural networks”
15:15 – 15:45 Dr. Sjors Middelkamp (PMC) – “Tracing the origin of pediatric cancer using single-cell whole genome sequencing at unprecedented resolution”
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:00 Keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Lodewyk Wessels (NKI) – “Understanding cellular decision making”
17:00 – 18:00 Closing ceremony followed by drinks