Bioinformatics Ph. D. Program Workshop 2025
Bioinformatics Ph. D. Program Workshop 2025
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The interuniversity Doctorate Programme in Bioinformatics is an official program jointly organized by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Universitat de Girona (UdG), the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), with the participation of the Bioinformatics Barcelona Association (BIB). Each year, the main activity for the PhD training consists in a workshop to present the current status of the different PhD projects to develop networking among the participants and their research competences.
The interuniversity Doctorate Programme in Bioinformatics is an official program jointly organized by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Universitat de Girona (UdG), the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), with the participation of the Bioinformatics Barcelona Association (BIB). Each year, the main activity for the PhD training consists in a workshop to present the current status of the different PhD projects to develop networking among the participants and their research competences.
This year, the annual workshop is held on February 7th in Lleida, an historical and cultural landmark city in the northwest of Catalunya. If you come by train, there is a 25 mins walk to the venue, which is in Sala Victor Siurana, at the Rectorat of UdL. You can follow this path and enjoy Carrer Major and its shops:
This year, the annual workshop is held on February 7th in Lleida, an historical and cultural landmark city in the northwest of Catalunya. If you come by train, there is a 25 mins walk to the venue, which is in Sala Victor Siurana, at the Rectorat of UdL. You can follow this path and enjoy Carrer Major and its shops:
If you come by car, we suggest you park here (free) or here (paid parking) and then walk to rectorat.
Registration and Submissions
Please register before the 20th of January here.
Notice that submissions are handled from the PhD program moodle site at the coordinating institution, UAB.
Registrations to attend the workshop are free, but we ask that you should fill out this form in order to appropriately scale the coffee break catering.
Tentative Schedule
9:00 - 9:55
Registration
9:55 - 10:00
Opening
10:00 - 11:35
Session 1
10:00 – 10:50: Plenary Talk: Najla Ksouri (CSIC) From Genomics to Breeding: The Role of Computational Approaches in Plant Improvement
10:50 – 11:05: Short Talk 1: Pilar Giner (UOC) Health and Sustainable Diets in UOC university community: Behavioral Profiles and Predictive Models from a Virtual Survey
11:05 – 11:20: Short Talk 2: Pablo Flores (UPC) An Equivalence Test for Detecting Functional Similarity Between Feature Lists Based on the Joint Enrichment of GO Terms
11:20 – 11:35: Short Talk 3: Andrea Nieto (UB) Single-cell multi-omics analysis deciphers gene regulatory network dynamism throughout human B-cell differentiation
11:35 - 12:25
Coffee break and poster session S1: Presential poster session
12:30 - 13:30
Session 2
12:30 – 12:45: Short Talk 4: Carlos Pintado (UAB) Comprehensive protein datasets and benchmarking for liquid-liquid phase separation studies
12:45 – 13:00: Short Talk 5: Janet Sanchez Hernandez (UdG) Evaluation of the conformational dynamics of HSV-TK and EHV4-TK enzymes involved in suicide gene therapy against cancer
13:00 – 13:15: Short Talk 6: Antonio Loreto (UAB) Evolution of morphological complexity under development-based genotype-phenotype maps
13:15 – 13:30: Short Talk 7: Julia Lisa (UdL) Cysteine-rich peptides of Mediterranean plants: a prospective study of their bioactivities and pharmacological implications
13:30 - 14:25
Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00
Session 3
14:30 – 14:45: Short Talk 8: Bertran Miquel (UPC) Biomolecules Go Topological: Learning Molecular Representation in Higher-order Domains
14:45 – 15:00: Short Talk 9: Maria Tarrades (UB) Design and Assessment of PANDEVIR capture panel for the characterization of Coronaviridae species on environmental samples
15:00 – 15:15: Short Talk 10: Roger Casals (UVic-UCC) Mechanistic prediction of cell state transitions at single-cell resolution
15:15 – 15:30: Short Talk 11: Oriol Barcenas (UAB) Aggrescan4D: structure-informed analysis of pH-dependent protein aggregation
16:00 - 16:30
Poster session S2: Virtual poster session
16:30 - 17:00
Session 4
16:30 – 16:45: Short Talk 12: Agustín Sánchez-Belmonte (UAB) Predicting and evaluating resistance to CDK4/6 therapies in metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
16:45 – 17:00: Short Talk 13: Ariadna Llop (URV) Exploring SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease binding site with PharmQSAR
17:00 - 17:30
Round Table: Q&A With your Program Coordinator & Academic Committee
17:30
Workshop closing
The abstract book and list of participants will be shown in this section shortly. Please plan on arriving to the venue of the workshop between 9:00 and 9:50 AM.
Upon Arrival
1– Go to the second floor of the Rectorat Building, look for Sala Victor Ciurana, and register for the workshop.
2 – Upon registration,
a) If you have a poster, we will provide you with materials to hang it up downstairs on the glass walls of Claustre de les Heures at the ground floor.
b) If you have a talk, we will ask that you upload the talk to the rooms computer
Online attendants
We provide the link to attend the talks in the abstract e-book and in Campus Virtual of the Ph. D. program.
Online speakers
Please join the same link as the online attendants and be prepared to share you presentation when your name is called for.
Online Poster presenters
Please join the link specifically provided for the online poster session in the Abstract eBook and in the Campus Virtual of the program. In that link there will be breakout rooms with online poster numbers. Please join your room and wait for attendants to discuss your poster.
Online Poster attendants
Please join the link specifically provided for the online poster session in the Abstract eBook and in the Campus Virtual of the program. In that link there will be breakout rooms with online poster numbers. Please visit them to discuss the posters with the presenters.
Organized by
The organizing committee is composed by the members of the academic commission of the PhD program:
Margarida Julià, coordinator of the PhD program, UAB
Xavier Daura, UAB, BIB academic director
Rui Alves, UdL
Sergio Gómez, URV
Robert Martí, UdG
Marta Casanellas, UPC
Ferran Prados, UOC
Alexandre Sànchez, UB
Jordi Villà-Freixa, UVic-UCC
The secretariat is composed by:
Rui Alves, UdL
Margarida Julià, UAB
Ester Vilaprinyo, UdL
Alberto Marin, UdL
Ivan Benitez, UdL
Jesus Nadal, UdL
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