Session # Start Time End Time Type Authors(Speaker) Title Authors Session Chair
08:30 09:30 Registration
09:30 10:30 Keynote Talk 1 Alexander Urban, Stanford University Advanced experimental and computational genome analysis approaches to resolve complex genome variation associated with the human brain Giltae Song, Pusan National University
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
1 10:45 11:10 Proceeding talk 1 Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University Novel Driver Mutations in GCB Lymphoma Patients That Affect Transcription Factors Binding Ofek Shami-Schnitzer and Tamir Tuller Maribel Hernández-Rosales, Cinvestav Irapuato
1 11:10 11:35 Proceeding talk 2 - Video-recorded presentation Murray Patterson, Georgia State University Position Specific Scoring Is All You Need? Revisiting Protein Sequence Classification Tasks Sarwan Ali, Taslim Murad, Prakash Chourasia, Haris Mansoor, Imdadullah Khan, Pin-Yu Chen and Murray Patterson Maribel Hernández-Rosales, Cinvestav Irapuato
1 11:35 12:00 Proceeding talk 3 Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba Tree decomposition for reconstructing ancestral RNA sequences of multiple families Songdi Hu, Vladimir Reinharz and Olivier Tremblay-Savard Maribel Hernández-Rosales, Cinvestav Irapuato
12:00 13:30 Lunch break
2 13:30 13:55 Proceeding talk 4 Reza Kalhor, University of Sherbrooke Whole-genome duplication detection with phylogenomics reconciliation: a scalable approach Reza Kalhor, Manuel Lafond and Celine Scornavacca Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
2 13:55 14:20 Proceeding talk 5 Jannik Schestag, Deift University of Technology Phylogenetic Network Diversity Parameterized by Reticulation Number and Beyond Leo van lersel, Mark Jones, Jannik Schestag, Celine Scornavacca and Mathias Weller Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
2 14:20 14:45 Proceeding talk 6 Tanjeem Azwad Zaman, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology On the robustness to gene tree rooting (or lack thereof) of triplet-based species tree estimation methods Tanjeem Azwad Zaman, Rabib Jahin lbn Momin and Md. Sharmsuzzoha Bayzid Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
2 14:45 15:10 Long talk Leo Zeitler, Institut Pasteur Alignment-free integration of single-cell ATAC-seq across species with sPYce Leo Zeitler, Eulalie Liorzou, Anthony Lepelletier, Katie Leap, Maëlle Daunesse, Claire Lavergne and Camille Berthelot Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
15:10 15:45 Coffee break
3 15:45 16:10 Proceeding talk 7 Hao Yu, National University of Singapore Exact Counts of Binary Phylogenetic Networks with Two and Three Reticulation Events Hao Yu and Louxin Zhang Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University
3 16:10 16:35 Proceeding talk 8 Xintong Zhou, University of Ottawa Ancestral pangenomes and their phylogenetic reconstruction Xintong Zhou and David Sankoff Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University
3 16:35 17:00 Proceeding talk 9 Navid Bin Hasan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology QT-WEAVER: Correcting quartet distribution improves phylogenomic analyses despite gene tree estimation error Navid Bin Hasan, Sohaib and Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University
3 17:00 17:25 Proceeding talk 10 Kaari Landry, University of Manitoba Fast calculation of cherry distance on level-1 orchard networks: optimization, heuristic and implementation Kaari Landry and Olivier Tremblay-Savard Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University
17:25 17:30 Closing remark
17:30 19:30 Poster session I & Satellites Reception
08:30 09:30 Registration
09:30 10:30 Keynote Talk II Choongwon Jeong, Seoul National University Recombination between chromosomes from divergent lineages harbors key information to reconstruct evolutionary history Giltae Song, Pusan National University
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
4 10:45 11:10 Proceeding talk 11 Kevin Liu, Michigan State University Detecting and Mapping Local Model Violations During Biomolecular Sequence Analysis: a RE sampling and Visual EvALuation Approach Meijun Gao and Kevin Liu Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
4 11:10 11:35 Proceeding talk 12 Martin Frith, University of Tokyo A simple way to find related sequences with position-specific probabilities Martin Frith Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
4 11:35 12:00 Proceeding talk 13 Alitzel Lopez, University of Sherbrooke A Sankoff-Rousseau-like Algorithm for Minimizing Lateral Gene Transfers and Losses on Single Origin Characters Alitzel López Sánchez, Guillaume E. Scholz, Peter F. Stadler and Manuel Lafond Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
12:00 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 14:20 Keynote Talk III Eun-kyeong Jo, Chungnam National University When infection biology meets bioinformatics Giltae Song, Pusan National University
5 14:20 14:45 Proceeding talk 14 - Video-recorded presentation Siyu Chen, Cornell University Residual immunity and seasonality of an epidemic Siyu Chen and David Sankoff Martin Frith, University of Tokyo
5 14:45 15:10 Proceeding talk 15 Eric Chen, University of British Columbia Adapting the cov2clusters tool for clustering MPOXV whole genome sequences Eric Chen, Tara Newman, John Tyson, Anthea Lam, Michael Chan, Agatha Jassem, Natalie Prystajecky, Shannon Russell and James Zlosnik Martin Frith, University of Tokyo
5 15:10 15:35 Proceeding talk 16 Muyao Huang, University of Tokyo Probability-based sequence comparison finds the oldest ever nuclear mitochondrial DNA segments in mammalian genomes Muyao Huang and Martin Frith Martin Frith, University of Tokyo
15:35 15:45 Coffee break
6 15:45 16:10 Proceeding talk 17 Triveni Shelke, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Unraveling Insect Immunity: A Cross-Order Comparative Genomic Analysis of Key Immune Proteins Triveni Shelke, Vanika Gupta and Ishaan Gupta Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
6 16:10 16:35 Proceeding talk 18 Yue Zhang, Thompson Rivers University Analyzing Sequence Similarity Distributions in Salmonidae: A Branching Process Approach Yue Zhang Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
6 16:35 17:00 Proceeding talk 19 Katia Aviña-Padilla, Cinvestav Irapuato Evolutionary Reconstruction of Hormone-bHLH Regulatory Networks in Solanaceae: Phylogenomic Insights from PSTVd-Tomato Interactions Katia Aviña-Padilla, Octavio Zambada-Moreno, Manuel A. Barrios-Izás, Michelle Bustamante-Castillo and Maribel Hernández-Rosales Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
6 17:00 17:20 Proceeding talk 20 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University Inferring Phylogenetic Trees of Cancer Evolution from Longitudinal Single-Cell Copy Number Profiles Yushu Liu and Luay Nakhleh Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
6 17:20 17:40 Proceeding talk 21 Luay Nakhleh, Rice University tMHG-Finder: Tree-guided Maximal Homologous Group Finder for Bacterial Genomes Yongze Yin, Bryce Kille, Huw Ogilvie, Todd Treangen and Luay Nakhleh Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
17:00 17:05 Closing remark
17:05 19:30 Poster session II & Welcome Reception