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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
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00 Opening ceremonyChair: Tamas Korcsmaros
  Opening Keynote lecture: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Harvard Medical School, USA): Systems medicine
16:30
 
17:00 Opening Keynote lecture: Hyun Je Kim (Seoul National University College of Medicine, KR): Single cell Atlas of inflammatory diseases
 
17:30
  Welcome coctail and dinner 
18:00
 
18:30
 
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20:00
 
20:30 Informal evening program (bowling, table soccer, swimming, etc)
 
21:00
 
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Tuesday
29 July 2025
  Microbiome and inflammationChair:
9:00 Keynote lecture: Serre-Yu Wong (Mount Sinai, USA): Spatial mapping of microbiome in fistulizing 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): Spatial and ultra-resolution microbiome analysis
 
10:45 Tea/Coffee
 
  Microbiome and inflammation
11:15 Expert talk 3: Federica Ungaro (San Raffaele Hospital, IT): Host-viral interactions in IBD treatment response
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 
 
15:00
 
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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
 
19:30
 
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21:00  
   
21:30 Poster session 1

Balázs BohárSystems genomics analysis on gene regulatory networks in inflammatory bowel disease
Margita Ágnes MártonA systems biological study of the role of endoplasmic stress upon inflammatory bowel disease
Dezső MódosSystems Genomics and Network Approaches Uncover How Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Affect Common Processes Through Different Mechanisms
Francisca CastilloCharacterization of a novel molecular stratification of Ulcerative Colitis patients
Polina KornilovaParalog proteins play a crucial role in rewiring cell-type specific signalling processes in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease
Viera KovacovaUnveiling the Hidden Potential of Unmapped Reads in Transcriptomic Analyses: Implications for IBD
John ThomasConserved sex differences in intestinal adaptive immunity are present in the healthy and Crohn’s disease ileum which are underpinned by sexually dimorphic transcriptional regulation
Disease modelling and networks - Chairs: Nadezhda Doncheva, Joana F. Neves
Veronica VenafraSignaling profiler, a computational strategy to produce actionable and context-specific networks of intracellular signaling
Matthieu NajmA systems biology approach for Cystic Fibrosis
Isabelle HautefortWhy do we need in vitro co-culture systems?
Gustavo MonasterioSpatially resolved proteogenomic atlas of the upper gastrointestinal tract
Marton OlbeiCytokine Networks in Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Dénes TüreiOmniPath: database knowledge for mechanistic modeling, cell-cell communication and more
 
22:00
 
22:30 Informal evening program
 
Wednesday
30 July 2025
  Disease models and mechanismsChair:
9:00 Vivian Li (The Crick Institute, UK): Experimental modelling of stem cells and the microbiome in gastrointestinal diseases (TBC)
 
9:45 Expert talk 1: Joana F Neves (Kings College London, UK): Mucosal organoids
 
10:15 Expert talk 2: Patrick Varga-Weisz (University of Essex, UK): Role of the microbiome in epigenetics regulation upon inflammatory conditions
 
10:45 Tea/Coffee
 
  Disease models and mechanismsChair:
11:15 Expert talk 3: Eduardo Villablanca (Karolinska Institutet, SE): Spatial profiling of the inflammed gut
 
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
 
13:00
 
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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
 
19:30
 
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21:00
 
21:30 Poster session 2

Carmela ErricoThe Caudovirales Class of Viruses is Associated with Dendritic Cell Impairment in CD Patients
Joachim Fritscher(in) no time to strain: strain-resolved metagenomic profiling with protal
Laura NolanTowards a comprehensive understanding of polymicrobial biofilm development and community interactions
Lejla Potari-GulDevelopment of a host-microbe interaction pipeline to reveal the cell- and condition-specific effects of bacteria using single-cell transcriptomics data
Stefania CaglianiThe role of mfsd2a in the resolution of colorectal cancer-promoting inflammation: implications for innovative therapies
Norbert DeutschDisCanVis: Visualizing integrated structural and functional annotations to better understand the effect of cancer mutations located within disordered proteins
Dávid KeresztesInvestigation of the role of COP9 signalosome in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Marco RusconeMultiscale Model of the Different Modes of Cancer Cell Invasion
Amanda FacoettiInvestigating the role of gut eukaryotic virome in contributing to colorectal cancer carcinogenesis
Valentina MadárHow yeast go multicellular
Yuseok MoonIntegrated stress response facilitates mucoprotective reprogramming against acute renointestinal distress
Luca CsabaiAutophagyNet: High-resolution data source for the analysis of autophagy and its regulation
Bence HajdúA systems biological study of oscillatory characteristic of autophagy induction under cellular stress
Márk KerestélyReversal of epithelial-msenchymal transition in a compartmentalized in silico boolean model
 
22:00
 
22:30 Informal evening program
 
Thursday
31 July 2025
  Modeling and Precision MedicineChair:
9:00 Keynote lecture: Kathryn Hamilton (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Post-transcriptional gene regulation and inflammation
 
9:45 Expert talk 1:Mohieddin Jafari (University of Helsinki, FL): Exploring Mechanisms of Action in Combinatorial Therapies through Stability/Solubility Alterations
 
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:
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 Selected talk
12:30 Lunch
 
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14:00 Presentations of teams (15 min / team + discussion)
 
14:30
 
15:00
 
15:30
 
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 Closing Keynote: Nick Powell (Imperial College London, UK): Precision medicine persepctives based on computatational, in vitro and in vivo models
 
 
18:45 Award presentation for teams and poster presenters and Closing remarks
19:00 Workshop Closing Feast in the Court of Foods
 
19:30
 
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22:00 Informal evening program with music
 
22:30
 
Friday
1 August 2025
Departure