HSCBB26 Best Poster Awards 🏆

The 20th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB26) took place on 23–25 October 2026 at the Municipal Cultural Center of Kalamata. We thank all participants for making it such a successful meeting, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the Best Poster Awards!

🥇 First Place – P26

MREseeker: Predicting miRNA targets through Machine Learning

Rafail Adam, Martin Reczko, Marios Miliotis, Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

Best Poster Awards (in poster order)

P2 – Systematic review and meta-analysis of metagenomics sequencing data from multiple sources reveal diversity and taxonomic shifts in the urine microbiome of overactive bladder patients – Maria Kampa, Argyro Kalogeropoulou, Maria Papefthimiou, Panagiota I. Kontou, Pantelis G. Bagos, Michalis Samarinas, Georgia G. Braliou

P4 – Identification of stress proteins in Klebsiella bacteria using transcriptomics and machine learning algorithms – Michalis Gkouvelis, Jean-Marc Schwartz, Martin Buck, Zoi Lygerou, Christos Makris, Ioly Kotta-Loizou

P10 – Explainable Retrieval-Augmented HPO Phenotyping from Unstructured Clinical Notes Using Biomedical Large Language Models – George Petihakis, Arsenios Chatzigeorgiou, Marios Andrikopoulos, Dimitra Paranou, Anna Karavangeli, Damianos Melidis, Dimitrios Grigoriadis, Athanasios Papathanasiou, George Tsaousis

P14 – eQTL and GWAS Variants on microRNA Binding Sites – Eirini Konstantara, Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

P16 – Evidence-Aware Relational Graph Learning for Gene–Disease Association Prediction in Genomic Reanalysis – Marios Andrikopoulos, Arsenios Chatzigeorgiou, George Petihakis, Anna Karavangeli, Dimitra Paranou, Damianos Melidis, Dimitrios Grigoriadis, Athanasios Papathanasiou, George Tsaousis

P17 – Evaluating nucleotide-specific evolutionary profiles for miRNA–target interactions – Dimosthenis Tzimotoudis, Ceren Yildirim, Michal Alexander Ciach, Ogun Adebali, Panos Alexiou

P20 – CNNAMON: deciphering regulatory semantics from genomics data with interpretable convolutional neural networks – Panagiotis Xiropotamos, Vasiliki Kotsira, Foteini Papageorgiou, Haris Manousaki, Charis Sinnis, Charalabos Antonatos, Yiannis Vasilopoulos, Theodore Dalamagas, Georgios K. Georgakilas

Warm congratulations to all the awardees! 👏 We also thank the evaluation committee and everyone who presented a poster. See you at HSCBB27!