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28-31 July 2025Visegrád, Hungary

Program

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Monday
28 July 2025
  Arrival & Opening
14:00 Arrival and registration
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15:00
15:30
16:00 Opening ceremonyChair: Tamás Korcsmáros
  Opening Keynote lecture: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Harvard Medical School, USA): From network medicine to the Foodome: The dark matter of nutrition
16:30
 
17:00 Opening Keynote lecture: Hyun Je Kim (Seoul National University College of Medicine, KR): Building patients multiomics atlas in Korea
 
17:30
  Welcome coctail and dinner 
18:00
 
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20:30 Informal evening program (bowling, table soccer, swimming, etc)
 
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Tuesday
29 July 2025
  Microbiome and inflammationChair: Hajir Ibraheim
9:00 Keynote lecture: Serre-Yu Wong (Mount Sinai, USA): Tunneling through gut and skin: Perianal fistula in Crohn's disease
 
9:45 Expert talk 1: Sun-Ho Lee (Sinai Health Toronto, CAN): Longitudinal effect of the microbiome on IBD development
 
10:15 Expert talk 2: Falk Hildebrand (Quadram Institute, UK): Gastrointestinal disease through the lens of high-resolution metagenomics
 
10:45 Tea/Coffee
 
  Microbiome and inflammationChair: John Thomas
11:15 Expert talk 3: Federica Ungaro (San Raffaele Hospital, IT): Host-microbiota interaction in IBD and its complications
11:45 Expert talk 4: Szilvia Juhasz (Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine, HU)The toxic relationship between bacteria and human cells
12:15 Safak Bayram (Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE)Diet modulates colonic epithelial proinflammatory responses by influencing butyrate-producing microbiota
12:30 Lunch
 
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14:00 Teamwork – part 1 Getting know each other 
 
14:30 Presenting the problem to be solved 
 
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16:00 Knights Tournament followed by Team building competition with Medieval games, informal discussions in the meantime
 
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19:00 Special Renaissance Dinner
 
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21:30 Poster session 1

In silico approaches - Chairs: Dénes Türei, Bence Szalai, Mohieddin Jafari
P-01Matteo RivaHarnessing Internet-of-Things and Temporal Fusion Transformer to decode environmental impacts and predict relapses in chronic inflammatory disorders
P-02Wing KoonExploring machine learning approaches to improve inflammatory bowel disease prediction
P-03Bence HajdúInvestigating ferroptosis and autophagy interactions through integrated database analysis
P-04Luca FarkasAutophagyNet reveals functional non-coding SNPs in autophagy pathways associated with Crohn’s disease genetic architecture
P-05Yufan LiuPatient-specific network modelling reveals functional impact of non-coding snps in ulcerative colitis
P-06Balázs BohárRewired upstream signaling in IBD: The regulatory impact of non-coding SNPs
Host-microbe interactions – Chairs: Serre-Yu Wong, Eduardo Villablanca, Martina Poletti
P-13Tahila AndrighettiFunctional programming of neutrophils by microbiota-derived acetate
P-14Ema MocsonokyovaDeciphering the microbiome–host crosstalk
P-15Lejla Potari-GulDecoding cell type-specific host signalling modulation by microbial proteins & metabolites
P-16Lena WeidertCombining organoid and organ-on-chip technology for personalised host-microbiome interaction studies
P-17EunHye YoonMesenchymal–T cell interactions drive persistent inflammation in C. difficile–positive inflammatory bowel disease
 
22:00
 
22:30 Informal evening program
 
Wednesday
30 July 2025
  Disease models and mechanismsChair: Rachael Barry
9:00 Keynote lecture: Joana F Neves (Kings College London, UK) : Immune-epithelial interactions govern intestinal health & disease
 
9:45 Expert talk 1: Csaba Pál (Biological Research Center, HU)Evolution of resistance to antibiotics in development promotes the rise of hypervirulent bacteria
 
10:15 Expert talk 2: Patrick Varga-Weisz (University of Essex, UK): Epigenetic mechanisms shaping colon inflammation
 
10:45 Tea/Coffee
 
  Disease models and mechanismsChair: Marek Ostaszewski
11:15 Expert talk 3: Eduardo Villablanca (Karolinska Institutet, SE): Unraveling the molecular architecture of the intestinal barrier: Insights from spatial transcriptomics
 
11:45 Gustavo Monasterio Ocares (Karolinska Institutet, SE): Spatial transcriptomics reveals a novel salivary gland and a rheostatic gut-salivary glands axis during intestinal inflammation
Rachael Barry (Imperial College, UK): Proteases in the colorectal tumour microenvironment induce barrier damage and cancer cell signalling
Deborah Jans (KU Leuven, BE): Family matters: Understanding the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease multiplex families
12:30 Lunch
 
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14:00 Teamwork – part 2 Discussing the problem to be solved
 
14:30
 
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16:00 Tea/Coffee
 
16:30 Catamaran race on the Danube, informal discussion in the meantime
 
17:00
 
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19:00 BBQ Picnic Dinner
 
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21:00
 
21:30 Poster session 2

Omics Analysis – Chair: Marek Ostaszewski, Luca Massimino, Matthew Madgwick
P-07Dezső MódosNetwork propagation from regulatory SNPs through protein and gene regulatory networks reveals distinct patient clusters in inflammatory bowel disease
P-08Yong Jun KimSingle-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals Clusterin-expressing enteric neurons as immune modulators in inflammatory bowel disease
P-09Luke HannaSingle-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals upadacitinib-mediated modulation of immune cell states in perianal fistula
P-10Rohan SundramoorthiA targeted metabolite array for inflammatory bowel disease
P-11John ThomasUnravelling the molecular landscape of anti-TNF failure in Ulcerative Colitis identifies MEK/ERK inhibitors as putative therapeutic candidates
P-12Dénes TüreiOmniPath: prior knowledge for multi-omics analysis from 180+ databases
In vitro approaches – Chairs: Joana F Neves, Kathryn Hamilton, Liz Stewart
P-18Stefania CaglianiExploring the function of MFSD2A in colorectal cancer-associated inflammation
P-19Edvishka DiasInvestigating the role of bile acids in inflammatory bowel disease
P-20Sandra KoigiImperial IBD Organoid Biobank
P-21Inez RoegiersDevelopment of a high-throughput inflammation assay
P-22Sabrina Nicolo'Roseomonas mucosa as a potential driver of intestinal fibrosis in Crohn’s disease: A multi-omic approach
Microbiome – Chairs: Patrick Varga-Weisz, Sun Ho Lee, Szilvia Juhász
P-23Klara CerkSpatial metagenomics of the inflamed human gastrointestinal mucosal niche resolved at strain resolution.
P-24Lejla DarukaThe effect of food additives on the gut microbiome
P-25Carmela ErricoInvestigating Caudovirales-induced molecular mimicry in Crohn's disease pathogenesis
P-26Toby LawrenceRewiring host cells through metabolite-host interactions
 
22:00
 
22:30 Informal evening program
 
Thursday
31 July 2025
  Modeling and Precision MedicineChair: Parastoo Hashemi
9:00 Keynote lecture: Kathryn Hamilton (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Epithelial cell plasticity in the regenerating gut
 
9:45 Expert talk 1:Mohieddin Jafari (University of Helsinki, FL): When one is not enough: A systems medicine approach for combinatorial therapy in acute myeloid leukemia
 
10:15 Expert talk 2: Marek Ostaszewski (University of Luxembourg, LU): Systems biology diagrams: interface between knowledge curation and computational modelling
 
10:45 Tea/Coffee
 
  Modeling and Precision MedicineChair: Dénes Türei
11:15 Bence Szalai (Turbine Ltd, HU): Benchmarking foundation cell models for post-perturbation RNA-Seq prediction
11:30 Hratch Baghdassarian (MIT, US): scLEMBAS: Context-aware signaling pathway modeling at single-cell resolution
11:45 Luca Massimino (San Raffaele Hospital, IT): The spatial code: Computational Strategies for deciphering tissue microenvironments
12:00 Christine Suh-Yun Joh (Seoul National University College of Medicine, KR): Immune dysregulation and epithelial barrier dysfunction in ASCA-Positive ulcerative colitis
12:15 Lunch
12:30
 
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14:00 Presentations of teams (15 min / team + discussion)
 
14:30
 
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16:00 Tea/Coffee
 
16:30 Grant writing seminar (Cláudio Nunes-Alves, Germinate Science Consulting)
 
17:00
 
17:30 Moderated panel discussion on: Women / Family in Science
 
18:00 Hunting animal show and refreshing drinks
 
  Closing Chair: Joana F Neves
18:30 Closing Keynote: Nick Powell (Imperial College London, UK): Precision medicine persepctives based on computatational, in vitro and in vivo models
 
19:00 Workshop Closing Feast in the Court of Foods Foods with Award presentation for teams and poster presenters
 
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21:30 Informal evening program with music
 
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Friday
1 August 2025
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