12:00-12:30 Venkata Satagopam, Unlocking complex diseases through federated data governance, FAIR multi-modal data, and AI

12:30-13:00 Vladimir Brusic, Monitoring heart health at home: Health informatics challenges

12:00-12:25 Verena Paulitschke, Noninvasive biomarker discovery by metabolomics of fingertip sweat to guide individualized anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma

12:25-12:40 Paula Stancl, Metaplasia as a transitional cell-of-origin state revealed by epigenome-informed cancer prediction

12:40-12:55 Luka Bojic, CTCF transcription factor as a potential therapeutic target in osteosarcoma

12:00-12:25 Jovana Kovacevic, Integration and standardization of gene–disease associations in ProDiGenIDB

12:25-12:40 Aleksandr Matsun, A pan-tissue multi-omics framework for aging analysis via non-negative matrix tri-factorization

12:40-12:55 Iva Rosić, EffRank: a bioinformatics scoring pipeline for prioritizing novel type III secreted effectors in the Pseudomonas syringae species complex

14:00-14:30 Ágnes Tantos, Identifying regulatory RNA networks behind therapy-induced senescence (TIS) in breast cancer cells

14:30-15:00 Milana Grbić, Rethinking protein complex discovery from network topology to dynamic graph learning

15:00-15:05 Sandi Baressi Šegota, Confidence-guided lightweight CNN ensemble for OrganMNIST classification

15:05-15:10 Ross Stewart, Predicting interaction-specific protein–protein interaction perturbations by missense variants with MutPred-PPI

15:10-15:15 Marko Brkic, RefusalBench: Why refusal rate misranks frontier LLMs on biological research prompts

15:15-15:20 Natacha Cerisier, Predicting nephrotoxicity from cell morphological perturbations using high content image-based profiling

15:20-15:25 Milana Djonovic, Cross-workflow signal reporting in pan-viral metagenomics

15:25-15:30 Biljana Stojanović, Temporal dynamics of codon usage in SARS-CoV-2 proteins

15:30-15:35 Dario Radojcic, Incorporating GO semantics and label imbalance into protein function prediction loss functions

15:35-15:40 Giulgaz Muradova, A compact genotype sketch for cross-platform sample matching

15:40-15:45 Anatoly Panov, Efficiency and resource potential of a pediatric palliative patronage model

15:45-15:50 Mikhail Potievskiy, Application of artificial intelligence–based digital medical technologies for the management of surgical patients with hepatopancreatobiliary tumors

14:00-14:25 Yulia Medvedeva, Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes across Russian ancestry groups

14:25-14:50 Vladimir Jovanović, Dissecting the transcriptomic basis of behavioural differences between male morphs of ruffs (Calidris pugnax)

14:50-15:05 Anastasija Bubanja, Cell-type specific expression and structural features of transcriptional isoform LDLRAD4-217 in rectal cancer

15:05-15:20 Mehmet Izmirli, Omics-driven agent-based modelling of hepatocellular carcinoma tumours

15:20-15:35 Anja Petrović, Exploring the role of the ZBTB14 transcription factor in U937 macrophages

15:35-15:50 Alexander Rakitko, Genetic architecture and AI-assisted phenotyping of alopecia in a large Russian genomics cohort

10:00-10:25 Olga Tarasova, AI/ML in the search for novel antivirals

10:25-10:50 Marija Gavrović-Jankulović, Predictive modeling of B- and T-cell epitopes in allergen discovery and immunotherapy design

10:50-11:05 Uxia Veleiro, Predicting drug synergy under realistic scenarios

11:05-11:20 Branislava Jankovic, Targeting resistance and survival mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using data fusion and machine learning

10:00-10:25 Andrey Przhibelskiy, A universal toolkit for single-cell and spatial long-read transcriptomic sequencing data

10:25-10:40 Alla Mikheenko, IsoChecker: multisample analysis and interactive browsing of long-read transcript isoforms

10:40-10:55 Milovan Suvakov, Detection of mosaic copy number alterations in PTA-amplified single cells

10:55-11:10 Igor Davidović, Improving spatial transcriptomics data processing and annotation under suboptimal image-based cell segmentation

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12:00-12:15 Nadja Trklja, Transcriptomic reanalysis reveals membrane-associated pathways involved in fullerenol C60(OH)24 cytotoxicity

12:15-12:30 Vanja Miljanić, Double-stranded RNA sequencing and bioinformatic analysis reveal viruses in Verticillium dahliae

12:30-12:45 Suzana Stanisavljević, Contribution of ILCs to the development of different forms of multiple sclerosis

12:45-13:00 Katarina Krstajić, Comprehensive genomic profiling of advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in Serbia: Implications for targeted therapy selection

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12:00-12:15 Dragana Dudić, Assessing the predictive power of intrinsic disorder and sequence features for plant stress response

12:15-12:30 Katja Jamnik, Integrated analysis reveals bias in single-tool miRNA profiling during grapevine viral coinfection

12:30-12:45 Vladimir Vlatković, Assessment of coumarin derivatives potential as cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors

12:45-13:00 Mateja Ilić, Spatial transcriptomic profiling of thrombin-PAR-fibrinogen axis in colorectal cancer

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12:00-12:15 Jelena Kusic-Tisma, Spatial organization of gene expression in 3-day old zebrafish larvae

12:15-12:30 Marija Lazić, Prothrombin reshapes the temporal transcriptomic trajectory of Caco-2 colorectal cancer cells

12:30-12:45 Marina Jelovac, Benchmarking of pre-processing steps in Sarek pipeline on MGI sequenced standard human genome

12:45-13:00 Nikita Yolshin, Genome-wide analysis of human respiratory adenoviruses in Russia reveals extensive diversity and recombination

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12:00-12:15 Sanja Goč, Bioinformatics identification of extracellular vesicle – derived microRNAs biomarkers in pancreatic cancer

12:15-12:30 Kristina Kokotović, Dynamics in soil microbial community structure under the influence of heavy metal contamination and phytoremediation: a pot trial experiment

12:30-12:45 Radmila Novakovic, Integrated chemical and metagenomic profiling of urban wastewater: antibiotic residues, microbial community and resistome at a Belgrade collector point

12:45-13:00 Marko Antonijević, Coordination geometry-driven selectivity toward tumor-associated carbonic anhydrases in novel Zn(II) dithiocarbamato complexes

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12:00-12:15 Manja Božić, Trehalose synthesis is induced in maize roots under low-temperature stress

12:15-12:30 Djordje Pavlovic, Implementation and clinical utility of the GATK gCNV pipeline for rare disease diagnostics using whole exome sequencing

12:30-12:45 Nikita Yolshin, Development of the amplification strategy and NGS data processing pipeline for HIV-1 genome assembly and resistance genotyping

12:45-13:00 Vanja Tatić, In silico approach to proteomic identification of biologically active proteins in an insect non-model species, Ostrinia nubilalis

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12:00-12:15 Vladimir Vlatković, Molecular docking approach in prediction of binding between selected bioactive phenolic compounds and human serum albumin

12:15-12:30 Natasa Radakovic, Transcriptomic analysis reveals suppression of the filamentation-associated virulence program in Candida albicans

12:30-12:45 Aleksandar Bisenić, Pilosibacter species emerge as leading contributors to glutarate pathway-mediated butyrate synthesis in the human gut

12:45-13:00 Jelena Pantović, Microbial composition of peloids from Banja Koviljača

12:00-12:25 Dušan Radojević, Gut microbiota profiling as a tool for predicting and enhancing immunotherapy response

12:25-12:40 Aleksandra Denisova, Meta-analysis of oral shotgun metagenomes for prediction of caries and periodontitis

12:40-12:55 Alina Guliaeva, Permafrost-preserved Late Pleistocene wolf from Yakutia: palaeogenomic and metagenomic perspectives

14:00-14:30 Ming Chen, AI-driven bioinformatics: advancing chronic disease management and aging assessment

14:30-15:00 Noël Malod-Dognin, Exploiting the linearity of joint embedding spaces to mine cancer precision medicine knowledge

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15:00-15:15 Kirill Ulianov, Long-range chromatin interaction dynamics and molecular aging signatures in schizophrenia

15:15-15:30 Aleksandar Milovanović, Refining FFR assessment for gray zone coronary lesions

15:30-15:45 Sofia Dmitrienko, Contamination of the Toxoplasma gondii reference genome and an algorithm for its detection in paleometagenomic analysis

15:45-16:00 Anđela Damnjanović, Classification of coronavirus types based on repeats derived from amino acid and nucleotide sequences

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15:00-15:15 Jovana Stankic, AI‑driven concordance engines as a decision-support layer for veterinary import compliance

15:15-15:30 Jasmina Obradovic, Sex-specific distribution of EGFR rs712829 and rs712830 polymorphisms in East Asian, European and Serbian populations

15:30-15:45 Anastasia Matlaeva, PromoterLab: browser-based application for human promoter design, visualization and sequence analysis

15:45-16:00 Mirjana Novković, Identification of shared molecular programs and putative role of ankrd1a in zebrafish heart regeneration and skeletal muscle repair using WGCNA

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15:00-15:15 Kübra Tuğtekin, Comparative evaluation of the regenerative efficacy of Lucilia sericata larval secretions across varied storage conditions.

15:15-15:30 Jelena Karanović, Regulatory landscape of TGFB pathway in gastrointestinal tumors

15:30-15:45 Nikola Jocic, Development and validation of a reproducible RNA-seq pipeline for transcriptomic analysis

15:45-16:00 Miloš Nenadović, IntelliLung: A human-in-the-loop AI-DSS for ICU ventilation settings

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15:00-15:15 Nevena Ćirić, Hierarchical deep learning for tandem repeat proteins classification

15:15-15:30 Milana Grbić, Towards protein complex identification in dynamic PPI networks using embeddings

15:30-15:45 Sara Stankovic, Precision and recall in rare disease genomics: benchmarking the IMGGE whole genome sequencing pipeline

15:45-16:00 Filip Božić, Sequence diversity and genomic relatedness of blaVIM-positive clinical Proteus mirabilis isolates

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15:00-15:15 Bojana Banovic Deri, Multi-resolution framework for orthology and regulatory region delineation in divergent grass genomes

15:15-15:30 Janko Diminic, DigestedProteinDB: A compact key–value database for in silico peptide digestion and mass-based search

15:30-15:45 burak ozyurek, FluxInside: A high-performance Flux Balance Analysis engine for spatial agent-based models.

15:45-16:00 Zoe Chervontseva, Searching for conserved age-related splicing programs across vertebrates

14:00-14:10 Biljana Stankovic Introduction to COST Action Key Principles

14:10-14:25 Andrea Gelemanovic CA24166: Pan-European Network for Inflammaging: A Multi-omics Integration Approach (INFLAMomx)

14:25-14:40 Miron Sopic CA21153: Network for implementing multiomic approaches in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention and research (AtheroNET)

14:40-14:55 Ivana Stojanovic CA24117 – Innate lymphoid cells – the European quest for innovative cancer prognosis and immunotherapy (ILCquest)

14:55-15:10 Riste Stojanov CA24162 – Adaptive and acquired resistance in gastrointestinal cancers-contemporary and emerging resolutions (AdResCanCER)

15:10-15:20 Short brake

15:20-16:00 Discussion and networking

10:00-10:30 Thomas Mohr, From fatty liver to scar: Exploring the rewiring of gene networks across the human chronic liver disease continuum.

10:30-11:00 Vladimir Kovacevic, Unraveling the molecular effects of nanoplastics on human blood cells using microfluidic chip-based single-cell RNA sequencing

11:00-11:15 Dušan Ušjak, An integrated single-nucleus landscape of cardiovascular disease

10:00-10:25 Gábor Erdős, Zero-shot prediction of thermodynamic properties of proteins

10:25-10:50 R. Gonzalo Parra, The role of local energetic frustration across conformational ensembles of disordered proteins

10:50-11:05 Norbert Deutsch, Pathogenic variations illuminate functional constraints in intrinsically disordered proteins

11:05-11:20 Pavle Goldstein, A statistical perspective on the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

12:00-12:25 Andrea Gelemanović, Multi-omics integration approaches for addressing cardio-renal-metabolic multimorbidity

12:25-12:40 Tarmo Nurmi, Deeply phenotyped and multi-omics data integration with the Human Phenotype Project

12:40-12:55 Milica Pajović, Integrated transcriptomic analysis reveals coordinated network reprogramming and p53 pathway inactivation in temozolomide-resistant gioblastoma A172 cell line

12:00-12:25 Minja Belic, Context-dependent remodeling of aging-related and neurodevelopmental pathways in human cerebral organoids across APOE genotypes

12:25-12:40 Cyril Lagger, Mechanistic insights into ageing biology from single-cell omics

12:40-12:55 Aleksandra Beric, Study of circulating blood linear RNA nominates CD55 and DLD as novel causal genes and early-stage biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease

14:00-14:25 Predrag Radivojac, Resolving variants of uncertain significance at scale with calibrated computational and experimental evidence

14:25-14:40 Fedor Konovalov, A Bayesian framework for quantifying allele count evidence for variant pathogenicity

14:40-14:55 Yury Barbitoff, Understanding the interplay between positive and negative selection in the human genome

15:00-15:05 Nikola Kotur, Cytokine profiles as promising predictive biomarkers for glucocorticoid therapy response in inflammatory bowel disease

15:05-15:10 Tatjana Ruskovska, Integrative multi-layer bioinformatics of transcriptomic data for elucidating molecular mechanisms of action of polyphenol-rich extract on cardiometabolic health

15:10-15:15 Stefan Lazic, Cobalt chloride affects neural precursor cell differentiation: A transcriptional study

15:15-15:20 Mikhail Potievskiy, Cancer origin: Studying natural history of oncosupression under selection pressure

15:20-15:25 Biljana Stankovic, Rare variant pharmacogenomic analysis identifies pathways associated with vedolizumab response in Crohn’s disease patients

15:25-15:30 Kseniia Poliakova, Diet reconstruction of a woolly mammoth calf using multiple metagenomic approaches

15:30-15:35 Antonio Starcevic, A multi-omic digital twin network reveals C3-glycosylation as an actionable driver of latent metaflammation

15:35-15:40 Zorana Dobrijevic, Identification and functional characterization of tumor-suppresive microRNAs with potential key roles in breast cancer progression and metastasis

15:40-15:45 Nađa Trklja, Analysis of total transcriptome from brain tissue of progressive multiple sclerosis patients identifies ferroptosis-related genes relevant for distinction of inactive from chronic active white mater lesions

15:45-15:50 Cong Feng, CellAnalyst: delivering single-cell transcriptomic insights from bioinformatics analysts to experimental biologists

14:00-14:25 Lubomir Lou Chitkushev, Cyberbiosecurity threats in the time of AI: Digital vulnerabilities with biological consequences

14:25-14:50 Mikel Hernaez, Towards causal and interpretable virtual cells

14:50-15:05 Aleksandra Galitsyna, Generalized discovery of chromatin structural patterns across developmental and evolutionary scales

15:05-15:20 Ivan Lorencin, Structured generative AI for interpretable analysis of complex biomedical data

15:20-15:35 Mihailo Jovanovic, CardioSafe: Multi-task prediction of cardiac ion channel activity with reverse-leak audited benchmarking

15:35-15-50 Bogdan Kirillov, Time- and cost-efficient parameter optimization for 3D bioprinting of composite bioinks via active machine learning with Gaussian Processes