RECOMB-CCB 2025 Program


Venue: Grand Ballroom A (B126), The Commons (Baekyang Nuri)


Day 1: April 24th (Thursday)

08:30 - 09:30

Registration

09:25 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote 1: Josh Stuart (University of California Santa Cruz)

[KT] Decoding the Grammar of Cancer: Charting Cancer’s Next Move One Cell At a Time

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:55

Session 1

[PT] Extending differential gene expression testing to handle genome aneuploidy in cancer
Katsiaryna Davydzenka, Giulio Caravagna and Guido Sanguinetti


[PT] Intratumor Heterogeneity Through the Lens of Gene Regulatory Networks
Narein Rao, Nicolae Sapoval, Hamim Zafar and Luay Nakhleh


[ST] Generating a Multimodal AI Framework for High Resolution Analysis of scATAC-seq Data on Human Immunity
Sydney Kuhl, Andreas Tjaernberg, Morgan Weiss, Jane Buckner, Cate Speake, Emma Kuan, Marla Glass, Troy R. Torgerson, Thomas F. Bumol, Claire Gustafson, Peter Skene, Mariano Gabitto, Xiaojun Li and Mark-Phillip Pebworth


[ST] Seed-Guided Identification of Disease-Specific Subnetworks in Biological Networks for Enhanced Biomarker Discovery
Gurkan Bebek and Hyun Jo Kim


[ST] A Sparse Graphical Model for Identifying Driver Mutation Dependencies in Cancer
Ahmed Shuaibi, Uthsav Chitra and Ben Raphael

12:10 - 13:30

Lunch / Poster Viewing

13:30 - 14:30

Keynote 2: Yi Xing (University of Pennsylvania)

[KT] TBD

14:30 - 15:30

Session 2

[PT] MiT4SL: multi-omics triplet representation learning for cancer cell-line-adapted prediction of synthetic lethality
Siyu Tao, Yimiao Feng, Yang Yang, Min Wu and Jie Zheng


[ST] Inferring longitudinal tumor phylogenies from single-cell sequencing data
Akhil Jakatdar, Palash Sashittal and Ben Raphael


[ST] Arborist: Prioritizing Bulk DNA Inferred Tumor Phylogenies via Low-pass Single-cell DNA Sequencing Data
Chiyin Ching, Leah Weber, Yidan Pan, Chunxu Gao and Peter Van Loo


[ST] Single-cell and spatial transcriptome analysis reveals that secretory IgA dysfunction is based on Fusobacterium-associated poor prognosis in colorectal cancer
Ilseok Choi, Kyung-A Kim, Sang Cheol Kim, Jun Hyung Cha, Seungbyn Baek, Junha Cha, Hye-Yeong Jo, Minsun Jung, Melody Y. Zeng, Irina Matei, Susan Bullman, Joong Bae Ahn, Ki Taek Nam, Yoon Dae Han, Han Sang Kim and Insuk Lee


[ST] Unravelling the systemic immune system of lung cancer patients by omics profiling as predictive biomarker for immunotherapy response
Seoyeon Oh, Eufra Van Damme, Álvaro Marcos Rubio, Sofie Roelandt, Dieter Stevens, Karim Vermaelen, Katleen De Preter and Celine Everaert

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:25

Invited Talk: Inkyung Jung (KAIST)

Decoding the Oncogenic Potential of the 3D Cancer Genome

16:25 - 16:55

Session 3

[ST] Digital Pathology: WSI-based models to proxy expression profiling in prostate cancer
Taewoo Jung, Marija Pizurica and Kathleen Marchal


[ST] Improving disease prediction by expanding the Human Interactome with cell-type-specific co-expression networks derived from single-cell atlas
Euijeong Sung, Junha Cha, Seungbyn Baek and Insuk Lee


[ST] Personalized reference genome-based pipeline for cancer genome analyses to identify somatic mutations comprehensively
Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Masahiro Sugawa, Ai Okada, Yotaro Ochi, Yosuke Tanaka, Yasunori Kogure, Kenichi Chiba, Wataru Nakamura, Junji Koya, Hiroyuki Mano, Seishi Ogawa, Keisuke Kataoka and Yuichi Shiraishi

17:00 - 17:30

Break

17:30 - 19:30

Poster Session & Satellites Reception

Day 2: April 25th (Friday)

08:30 - 09:30

Registration

09:25 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote 3: Peter Van Loo (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

[KT] Molecular Archeology of Cancer

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:05

Session 4

[PT] Model-based tumour subclonal deconvolution accounting for spatio-temporal sampling biases
Elena Rivaroli, Elena Buscaroli, Salvatore Milite, Giulio Caravagna and Alberto Casagrande


[PT] BiLinT: Bayesian inference of lineage tree by joint analysis of single-cell multi-modal lineage tracing data
Ziwei Chen, Bingwei Zhang, Linrui Tang, Fuzhou Gong, Lin Wan and Liang Ma


[PT] EssentCell: Discovering Essential Evolutionary Relations in Noisy Single-Cell Data
Adiesha Liyanage, Robyn Burger, Allison Shi, Braeden Sopp, Binhai Zhu and Brendan Mumey


[HT] Stochastic modeling of single-cell gene expression adaptation reveals non-genomic contribution to evolution of tumor subclones
Teresa Przytycka, M.G. Hirsch, Chi-Ping Day, Cenk Sahinalp, Salem Malikic, Soumitra Pal, Erin Molloy, Glenn Merlino, Farid Rashidi Mehrabadi, Sassano Antonella and Eva Eugenia Perez Guijarro

12:05 - 13:30

Lunch / Poster Viewing

13:30 - 14:30

Keynote 4: Wenyi Wang (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

[KT] Deciphering Tumor Heterogeneity for Benefits from Immunotherapy in Cancer

14:30 - 15:20

Session 5

[PT] Timing and clustering co-occurring genome amplification in cancers
Sara Cocomello, Giovanni Santacatterina, Riccardo Bergamin, Alice Antonello and Giulio Caravagna


(Late breaking) Mapping the cellular and molecular architecture of human bone marrow in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes
Beatrice Zhang, Robert Stanley, Kimon Argyropoulos, Brianna Gibson, Kenyon Weis, Alexander Lewis, Zoe Katsamakis, Karen Zhao, Kenton Wu, Catherine Snopkowski, Joshua Weinreb, Gunjan Shah, Roni Tamari, Andrew Moorman, Yuval Elhanati, Eric Rosiek, Matthew Zatzman, Ning Fan, Ronan Chaligne, Umesh Bhanot, Mikhail Roshal, Ahmet Dogan, Eytan Stein, Marcel van den Brink, Benjamin Greenbaum, Omar Abdel-Wahab and Susan DeWolf

15:20 - 15:30

Closing Remarks

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 18:00

Poster Session

*Time Zone: KST