The Bioinformatics in Bergen conference (BiB) will gather researchers to exchange ideas, encourage collaborations and present cutting-edge research.
The conference will take place at Solstrand Hotel on 2-3 June 2025.
Practical information:
If you have registered special diet requirements, please pick up your diet card in the reception.
Deadlines:
Registration Deadline : Closed
Allthough the conference is aimed at researchers, if you are an undergraduate student and would like to participate, please have your supervisor reach out to me.
Registration form
Submitting Abstract: Closed
See link below for abstract template.
Getting there and back:
By bus organised by CBU or
Presentation instructions
All PhD candidates are required to present either an oral presentation or a poster at the conference.
Oral presentation:
Each presentation is for 15 minutes, included questions from the audience.
Posters:
The poster walls will fit A0 posters in portrait format. Your poster has to be made in a portrait format, and not landscape.
- NB: There will be prizes for the best presentations!
Participation fee: 1000 NOK
Payment instructions in the registration form.
Program:
Bioinformatics in Bergen – Solstrand, 2-3 June, 2025
| 2 June | |
| 8.00 | Coach departure from Høyteknologisenteret to Solstrand |
| Welcome part | |
| 9.00 – 9.15 | Welcome and Meeting overview: Nathalie Reuter |
| Session 1. Main talk and oral presentations – Chair: Sean Bankier | |
| 9.15 – 10.00 | Keynote speaker: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte – “An overview of cancer progression and evolutionary accumulation models” |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Coffee break. |
| 10.15 – 11.30 | Oral presentation session 1 (5 talks) |
| Robert C. Glastad – “Convergent pathways of reductive mitochondrial evolution characterized with hypercubic inference”
Gutama Ibrahim Mohammad – “A Network-driven approach to transcriptome-wide association studies” Lila Gravellier – “Digital cortisol: unlocking continuous cortisol monitoring using wearable devices and machine learning. ” Tobias Rindfleisch – “On the road to the molecular microscope for intrinsically disordered proteins” Parveen Gartan – “Binding affinity predictions and alternate pose ranking via MSλD” |
|
| Session 2. Poster session – Chair: Sean Bankier | |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Poster session |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| Session 3. Oral presentations, main talk and panel discussion – Chair: Kenneth Valerio | |
| 13.30 – 14.15 | Keynote speaker: Elena Papaleo – “A structure-based framework to investigate variant effects in cancer and other diseases” |
| 14.15 – 15.15 | Oral presentation session 2 (4 talks)
Mahmoud Moqadam – “Lipid up take/release by start domains from microsecond-long molecular dynamics simulations” Nicolas Fragoso Bargas – “GWAS of infant and early childhood height reveals three cluster with different biology and causal links with type 2 diabetes” Ovidiu Todoran – “Structure-based development of FMN riboswitch ligands: Paving the way for the design of novel RNA-based antibiotics” Jessica Renz – “Using hypercubic inference for learning and predicting resistance evolution from uncertain states” |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee break. |
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Panel discussion |
| 16.30 – 19.00 | Check in and Free time: swimming pool, spa, outdoor swim, beach |
| 19.00 – 22.00 | Dinner |
| 3 June | |
| 7.00 – 9. 00 | Breakfast |
| Session 4. Main talk and oral presentation- Chair: Soroush Mehrpou | |
| 9.00 – 10.15 | Oral presentation session 3 (5 talks)
Jakub Vašíček – “Visualizing haplotypes and human diversity in proteomics ” Lucrezia Berton – “Inference of breast cancer evolutionary trajectories during chemotherapy” Manish P. Victor – “Characterization of microbial communities and antibiotic resistance genes in anthropogenically impacted arctic sediments” Miguel A. Juárez Garzón – “Phenotypic clustering of pediatric diabetes reveals phenotypic, genotypic and metabolomic differences independent of autoantibody status” Håkon Dahle – “On how aerobic hydrogen oxidation shapes microbial communities in deep sea hydrothermal systems” |
| 10.15 – 11.15 | Poster session |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Best poster, best presentation prize distribution and closing |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Check out |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.40 | Coach departure to Bergen |