Day 1 (26 May, Tuesday)

Time Program
09:00–09:05 Welcome
09:05–10:05 Keynote 1: Paul Medvedev
10:05–10:30 Coffee Break I
10:30–12:20 Session 1: Sequence I
Minimizer Density revisited: Models and Multiminimizers — Ingels et al.
MaxGeomHash: An Algorithm for Variable-Size Random Sampling of Distinct Elements — Hera et al.
Faster and Scalable Parallel External-Memory Construction of Colored Compacted de Bruijn Graphs with Cuttlefish 3 — Khan et al.
Sequence-to-graph alignment based copy number calling using a network flow formulation — Magalhães et al.
Privacy-Preserving Pangenome Graphs — Blindenbach et al.
bronko: ultrarapid, alignment-free detection of viral genome variation — Doughty et al.
12:20–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:20 Session 2: Protein/ML I
Predicting interaction-specific protein–protein interaction perturbations by missense variants with MutPred-PPI — Stewart et al.
Bacterial protein function prediction via multimodal deep learning — Muzio et al.
Evolutionary profile enhancement improves protein function annotation — Dai et al.
Integrative Multi-Scale Sequence–Structure Modeling for Antimicrobial Peptide Prediction and Design — Li et al.
ProtFlow: Flow Matching-based Protein Sequence Design with Comprehensive Protein Semantic Distribution Learning and High-quality
Generation — Kong et al.
Transforming Biological Foundation Model Representations for Out-of-Distribution Data — Pratapa et al.
15:20–15:50 Coffee Break II
15:50–17:05 Session 3: Single-Cell I
Random Matrix Theory-guided sparse PCA for single-cell RNA-seq data — Chardès
Gene-First Identity Construction for Robust Cell Identification in Single-Cell Transcriptomics — Yang et al.
Error Correction Algorithms for Efficient Gene Quantification in Single Cell Transcriptomics — Zentgraf et al.
Nullstrap-DE: A General Framework for Calibrating FDR and Preserving Power in Differential Expression Methods — Jiang et al.
17:05–19:00 Poster Session I

Day 2 (27 May, Wednesday)

Time Program
09:00–10:00 Keynote 2: Gene Myers
10:00–10:25 Coffee Break I
10:25–12:20 Session 4: Sequence II
KuPID: Kmer-based Upstream Preprocessing of Long Reads for Isoform Discovery — Borowiak & Yu
SLAB: A Sweep Line Algorithm in PBWT for Finding Haplotype Block Cores — Naseri et al.
pHapCompass: Probabilistic Assembly and Uncertainty Quantification of Polyploid Haplotype Phase — Hosseini et al.
On Deriving Synteny Blocks by Compacting Elements — Bohnenkämper et al.
Compressed inverted indexes for scalable sequence similarity — Ingels et al.
Fast and Flexible Flow Decompositions in General Graphs via Dominators — Sena & Tomescu
12:20–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:45 Session 5: Multi-Omics
Multimodal spatial alignment and morphology mapping with MOSAICField — Liu et al.
Multi-modal tissue-aware graph neural network for in silico genetic discovery — Aggarwal et al.
Modeling Multi-Modal Brain Connectomes for Brain Disorder Diagnosis via Graph Diffusion Optimal Transport Network — Sheng et al.
Achieving spatial multi-omics integration from unaligned serial sections with DIME — Sun et al.
14:45–15:20 Session 6: Small Molecules
SpecLig: Energy-Guided Hierarchical Model for Target-Specific 3D Ligand Design — Zhang et al.
Joint Learning of Drug-Drug Combination and Drug-Drug Interaction via Coupled Tensor-Tensor Factorization with Side Information — Zhang et al.
15:20–15:50 Coffee Break II
15:50–17:05 Session 7: Transcriptomics
Summarizing RNA Structural Ensembles via Maximum Agreement Secondary Structures — Gu et al.
CLADES — Contrastive Learning Augmented DifferEntial Splicing with Orthologous Positive Pairs — Talukder et al.
Alternet: Alternative splicing-aware gene regulatory network inference
Deep genomic models of allele-specific measurements — Tu et al.
17:05–19:00 Poster Session II

Day 3 (28 May, Thursday)

Time Program
09:00–10:00 Session 8: Phylogeny I
Constrained diffusion as a paradigm for evolution — Lazarev et al.
Deconvolving Phylogenetic Distance Mixtures — Arasti et al.
A Cophylogenetic Approach for Virus-Host Interaction Prediction — Chowdhury et al.
10:00–10:25 Coffee Break I
10:25–12:20 Session 9: Single-Cell II
scDesignPop generates population-scale single-cell RNA-seq data for power analysis, method benchmarking, and privacy protection — Dong et al.
scProfiterole: Clustering of Single-Cell Proteomic Data Using Graph Contrastive Learning via Spectral Filters — Coşkun et al.
Integrating morphology and gene expression in unpaired single-cell data using GeoAdvAE — Du & Lin
MOSAIC: A Spectral Framework for Integrative Phenotypic Characterization Using Population-Level Single-Cell Multi-Omics — Lu et al.
Integrative Inference of Spatially Informed Cell Lineage Trees using LineageMap — Pan et al.
Causal gene regulatory network inference from Perturb-seq via adaptive instrumental variable modeling — Sun et al.
12:20–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:30 Keynote 3: Alexandros Stamatakis
14:30–15:25 Session 10: Phylogeny II
Quartet-based species tree methods enable fast and consistent tree of blobs reconstruction under the network multispecies coalescent — Dai et al.
STELAR-X: Scaling Coalescent-Based Species Tree Inference to 100,000 Species and Beyond — Saha & Bayzid
PaNDA: Efficient Optimization of Phylogenetic Diversity in Networks — Holtgrefe et al.
15:25–15:55 Coffee Break II
15:55–17:10 Session 11: Cancer & Evolution
Arborist: Prioritizing Bulk DNA Inferred Tumor Phylogenies via Low-pass Single-cell DNA Sequencing Data — Weber et al.
Identifying Robust Subclonal Structures Through Tumor Progression Tree Alignment — Wu et al.
Fast and accurate resolution of ecDNA sequence using Cycle-Extractor — Faizrahnemoon et al.
POTTR: Identifying Recurrent Trajectories in Evolutionary and Developmental Processes using Posets — Käufler et al.
17:10–17:50 Business Meeting
19:00 Gala Dinner

Day 4 (29 May, Friday)

Time Program
09:00–10:00 Keynote 4: Sara Mostafavi
10:00–10:25 Coffee Break I
10:25–12:20 Session 12: Protein/ML II
Fast, accurate construction of multiple sequence alignments from protein language embeddings — Hoang et al.
Generating Hybrid Proteins with the MSA-Transformer — Tule et al.
Deconvolving mutation effects on protein stability and function with disentangled protein language models — Ding et al.
Quantum and Temporal Graph Neural Networks Reveal New Accuracy Limits in Predicting Protein–Ligand Dissociation Kinetics — Salamatov et al.
Protein Compositional Ratio Representation (PCRR) Systematically Improves Human Disease Prediction — Madduri et al.
Uncertainty-aware synthetic lethality prediction with pretrained foundation models — Hua et al.
12:20–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:25 Session 13: Statistical Genetics
Prediction of lifetime disease liability from EHR features — Di & Cai
Private Information Leakage from Polygenic Risk Scores — Nikitin & Gürsoy
A biobank-scale method for learning environmental modulators of gene–environment interaction underlying complex traits — Liu et al.
Bias in genome-wide association test statistics due to omitted interactions — Yelmen et al.
GOPHER: Optimization-based Phenotype Randomization for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Differential Privacy — Nandi et al.
Evolutionary dynamics under phenotypic uncertainty — Mohanty et al.
15:25–15:55 Coffee Break II
15:55–17:30 Session 14: Single-Cell III
CAMP: Coreset Accelerated Metacell Partitioning enables scalable analysis of single-cell data — Li et al.
DeltaNMF: A Two-Stage Neural NMF for Differential Gene Program Discovery — Karpurapu et al.
Information Geometry Reconciles Discrete and Continuous Variation in Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis — Cai et al.
DiCoLo: Integration-free and cluster-free detection of localized differential gene co-expression in single-cell data — Li et al.
CycleGRN: Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Cyclic Flow Dynamics in Single-Cell RNA-seq — Zhao et al.
17:30–18:30 Closing & Awards

*Time Zone: GMT+3