09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Coffee

09:30 – 09:40 Introduction

09:40 – 10:30 Keynote 1 Laurent Gatto A principled approach to analyse and

understand single-cell proteomics data, UCLouvain

10:30 – 10:50 Konstantina Tzavella D2D: A Constrained Foundation Model

Applied to Predict the Impact of Mutations on Protein Stability and Function,

ULB-VUB

10:50 – 11:10 Randy Osei Unraveling Aberrant Epigenetic Patterns in Cardio-

Genetic Disorders: A Multi-Omics Approach, ULB-VUB

11:10 – 12:00 Tech Talk Toon Janssen, BRIGHTcore

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:50 Keynote 2 Stefan Weckx Improving fermented foods with

(meta)genomics-based knowledge, VUB

13:50 – 14:10 Quentin Vanderauwera Current challenges in revealing DNA

methylation in bacteria using long-read sequencing, VUB

14:10 – 14:30 Inés Pradal Álvarez-Prida Unravelling fruity ester biosynthesis

by sourdough lactic acid bacteria through genomics and transcriptomics, VUB

14:30 – 15:00 Flash presentations

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:10 Keynote 3 Jean-François Flot The programming language Haxe: a Swiss

army knife for biodiversity bioinformatics, ULB

16:10 – 16:30 Quentin Rivière Chasing the active PRC2 targets in Arabidopsis:

a probabilistic approach, Biology Center Czech Academy of Sciences

16:30 – 16:40 Closing remarks by the (IB)2 directors

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