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Join one of Eastern Europe's biggest summer schools in Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics!

This summer in Poland connect, learn, and innovate with leading experts in the field.
Don’t miss this chance to deepen your knowledge and expand your network!

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Day 0

Sunday, June 28

Arrival to Kraków
Welcome gathering & Walk around Kraków (optional)
  • 17:30 – ...
Day 1

Monday, June 29

Computational Biology

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

Registration
  • 8:30 – 9:00
Workshops Opening + Introduction
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology representatives (TBA)
The evolution of computational research in a data-centric world
  • 9:45 – 10:30
  • Serghei Mangul (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 10:45
AI Factories: Connecting Cloud and HPC for Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • 10:45 – 11:30
  • Maciej Malawski (Sano Centre for Computational Medicine; Faculty of Computer Science AGH; Kraków, Poland)
How AI is changing systems biology
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Lars Juhl Jensen (ZS Associates; Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lunch
  • 12:15 – 13:45
Hands-on by Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH
  • 13:45 – 15:15
  • Klemens Noga, Oskar Klimas (ACC Cyfronet AGH; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 15:30
Hands-on by Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (cont.)
  • 15:30 – 16:45
  • Klemens Noga, Oskar Klimas (ACC Cyfronet AGH; Kraków, Poland)
Wrap-up & Discussion
  • 16:45 – 17:00
Day 2

Tuesday, June 30

Molecular Modeling

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

Molecules in Motion: Bridging Experiments and Simulations
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Krzysztof Murzyn (Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
TBA (Protein Structure Prediction)
  • 9:45 – 10:30
  • Alicja Wojciechowska (Sano Centre for Computational Medicine; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 10:45
TBA (Molecular Dynamics Simulations)
  • 10:45 – 11:30
  • Sikora Lab | Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
TBA(Molecular Dynamics Simulations)
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Sikora Lab | Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Lunch
  • 12:15 – 13:45
Hands-on: Molecular Modeling
  • 13:45 – 15:15
  • Sikora Lab | Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 15:30
Hands-on (cont.): Molecular Modeling
  • 15:30 – 16:45
  • Sikora Lab | Dioscuri Centre for Modelling of Posttranslational Modifications (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Wrap-up & Discussion
  • 16:45 – 17:00
Day 3

Wednesday, July 1

Metagenomics & Microbiome Research

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

How Wrong Could We Be? Uncertainty in AI Predictions When Truth is Unknown
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Yana Bromberg (Emory University; Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Population-based biobanks as a resource for uncovering health–microbiome interactions
  • 9:45 – 10:30
  • Elin Org (Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu; Tartu, Estonia)
Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 10:45
Mapping the Invisible City: MetaSUB and the Science of Urban Microbiomes
  • 10:45 – 11:30
  • Alexander Lucaci (Weill Cornell Medicine; New York City, USA)
Viral Evolution
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Alex Zelikovsky (Georgia State University; Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
TBA
  • 12:15 – 13:00
  • Rafał Mostowy (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Lunch
  • 13:00 – 14:30
Hands-on: Metagenomics Data Analysis
  • 14:30 – 15:45
  • Kinga Zielińska (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 15:45 – 16:00
Hands-on (cont.): Metagenomics Data Analysis
  • 16:00 – 17:00
  • Kinga Zielińska (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Wrap-up & Discussion
  • 17:00 – 17:15
Conference Dinner (sponsored by Zymo Research)
  • 19:00 – ...
  • Sukiennice Restaurant (Rynek Główny 3, 31-042 Kraków)
Day 4

Thursday, July 2

Biomedicine

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

Gene scoring in association studies
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Joanna Polańska (Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology; Gliwice, Poland)
Deciphering Fusion Transcript Complexity Using Targeted RNA
  • 9:45 – 10:30
  • Paweł Łabaj (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 10:45
Relative Pathway Activity Estimation in scRNA-Seq: The FUNCellA Framework
  • 10:45 – 11:30
  • Joanna Żyła (Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology; Gliwice, Poland)
TBA
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Michael Brudno (University of Toronto & University Health Network; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Lunch
  • 12:15 – 13:45
Hands-on: GORDIAN score
  • 13:45 – 15:15
  • Aleksandra Suwalska, Karolina Kuliś (Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology; Gliwice, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 15:30
Hands-on (cont.): GORDIAN score
  • 15:30 – 16:45
  • Aleksandra Suwalska, Karolina Kuliś (Department of Data Science and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology; Gliwice, Poland)
Wrap-up & Discussion
  • 16:45 – 17:00
Day 5

Friday, July 3

Evolutionary Genomics & Population Studies

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

Introduction to Phylogenetics
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Alex Zelikovsky (Georgia State University; Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
TBA
  • 9:45 – 10:30
  • Fabia Battistuzzi (Oakland University; Rochester, Michigan, USA)
Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 10:45
TBA
  • 10:45 – 11:30
  • Taras Oleksyk (Oakland University; Rochester, Michigan, USA)
TBA
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Anna Phillips (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Poznań, Poland)
Lunch
  • 12:15 – 13:45
Hands-on: Evolutionary Genomics
  • 13:45 – 15:15
  • TBA
Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 15:30
Hands-on (cont.): Evolutionary Genomics
  • 15:30 – 16:45
  • TBA
Wrap-up & Discussion
  • 16:45 – 17:00
'Bioinformatics for Ukraine' Meet-Up (optional)
  • 18:00 – 19:30
  • Taras Oleksyk, Serghei Mangul; open for B4U members
Day 6

Saturday, July 4

Transcriptomics

MCB Auditorium Ground Floor

Chairman

Host

TBA

Mechanistic insights into ageing from transcriptomics
  • 9:00 – 9:45
  • Cyril Lagger (Laboratory for Mechanistic Learning of Ageing Biology, Kyiv School of Economics; Kyiv, Ukraine)
TBA
  • 9:45 – 10:15
  • Ylla Lab | Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genome Biology (Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
TBA
  • 10:15 – 10:45
  • Agata Szade (Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 10:45 – 11:00
Learning How to Learn in the AI Era
  • 11:00 – 11:30
  • Zoia Comarova (MyEduPath; Los Angeles, USA)
PhD Perspectives Panel
  • 11:30 – 12:15
  • Serghei Mangul, Paweł Łabaj, Taras Oleksyk
Lunch
  • 12:15 – 13:45
Hands-on: How to compare gene expression – differential expression analysis in R
  • 13:45 – 15:15
  • Tomasz Gaczorek (Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 15:30
Hands-on (cont.): How to compare gene expression – differential expression analysis in R
  • 15:30 – 16:45
  • Tomasz Gaczorek (Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University; Kraków, Poland)
Conference Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks
  • 16:45 – 17:00
Certificate Award Ceremony & Farewell
  • 17:00 – 17:30
Day 7

Sunday, July 5

Departure
Check-out & Departure