Program of RECOMB-CG 2026

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May 24, Sunday
8:30 - 9:30Registration
9:30 - 10:30KeynotePavlos Pavlidis. At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Population Structure and Admixture History of Cretans
10:30 - 10:55Proceedings talkNicolae Sapoval, Zejian Liu, Mehrdad Tamiji, Meng Li and Luay Nakhleh. Theoretical and Empirical Performance of Pseudo-likelihood-based Bayesian Inference of Species Trees under the Multispecies Coalescent
10:55 - 11:20Proceedings talkDavid Sankoff, Jiazhen Leng, Pratheesh Soman, Qiaoji Xu, Chunfang Zheng, Alexander Liu, Jim Leebens-Mack and Lingling Jin. Reconstructing the constituent genomes of the ancestral angiosperm pangenome.
11:20 - 13:00Poster session
11:20 - 13:30Lunch (in parallel with poster session)
13:30 - 13:55Proceedings talkVictor de Moraes and Joao Meidanis. Time complexity and relaxation gap for the rank median of three genomes
13:55 - 14:20Proceedings talkLeonard Bohnenkämper and Jens Stoye. Quantifying the Rearrangement Complexity of Pangenomes
14:20 - 14:45Proceedings talkPoly H da Silva, Arash Jamshidpey and David Sankoff. Breakpoint medians and anti-medians for signed genomes
14:45 - 15:05Coffee break
15:05 - 15:30Proceedings talkAlan Mayer, Shayesteh Arasti and Siavash Mirarab. Detecting Outlier Subtrees of Gene Trees Using SPR Moves and Machine Learning
15:30 - 15:55Proceedings talkAbdur Rafi, Ahmed Mahir Sultan Rumi, Sheikh Azizul Hakim and Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid. wQFM-GDL Enables Accurate Quartet-based Genome-scale Species Tree Inference Under Gene Duplication and Loss
15:55 - 16:10Coffee break
16:10 - 16:35Proceedings talkAleksandr Koshkarov and Nadia Tahiri. k-Nearest Common Leaves Algorithm for Phylogenetic Tree Completion
16:35 - 17:00Proceedings talkBertrand Marchand, Nadia Tahiri, Olivier Tremblay-Savard and Manuel Lafond. On the Comparison of LGT networks and Tree-based Networks
 
May 25, Monday
9:30 - 10:30KeynoteSimona Georgieva. Convergent Evolution of Parasitism: From Ecology to Comparative Genomics
10:30 - 10:55Proceedings talkGabriele Di Palma, Catherine Matias and Blerina Sinaimeri. Similarities, differences and biases in cophylogenetic models for host-symbiont coevolution
10:55 - 11:20Coffee break
11:20 - 11:45Proceedings talkMathieu Gascon, Mattéo Delabre and Nadia El-Mabrouk. Gene repertoire evolution minimizing episodes of gains and losses
11:45 - 12:10Proceedings talkNicolae Sapoval and Luay Nakhleh. On the consistency of duplication, loss, and deep coalescence gene tree parsimony costs under the multispecies coalescent
12:10 - 12:35Proceedings talkManuel Lafond, Kaari Landry, Olivier Tremblay-Savard, Hamza Wahed, Chris Whidden and Norbert Zeh. Cherry-Picking Distance Between Binary Orchards Parameterized by Level
12:35 - 14:30Lunch
14:30 - 14:55Proceedings talkMeijun Gao, Byungho Lee and Kevin Liu. FIREFLY: PHYlogeny-informed REpresentation Learning to Estimate PHyLogenetic dIstances
14:55 - 15:20Proceedings talkVictor Epain, Aniket Mane, Gianluca Della Vedova, Paola Bonizzoni and Cédric Chauve. A multi-flow approach for binning circular plasmids from short-reads assembly graphs
15:20 - 15:45Proceedings talkMartin Schmitz, Lovro Vrcek, Kenji Kawaguchi and Mile Sikic. GNNome-Decision: Enhancing GNN training for de novo genome assembly by targeting decision nodes
15:45 - 16:05Coffee break
16:05 - 16:30Proceedings talkAmos Onn, Tzipy Marx, Liming Tao, Tamir Biezuner, Ehud Shapiro, Christoph A. Klein and Peter F. Stadler. Modeling the Mutational Dynamics of Very Short Tandem Repeats
16:30 - 16:55Proceedings talkMartin Schmitz, Lovro Vrcek, Kenji Kawaguchi and Mile Sikic. DipGNNome: Diploid de novo genome assembly with geometric deep learning and beam-search
16:55 - 17:20Proceedings talkMark Maher Ebeid, Ali Tugrul Balci, Maria Chikina, Panayiotis Benos and Dennis Kostka. "Frustratingly Easy'" Domain Adaptation for Cross-Species Transcription Factor Binding Prediction
17:30 - 19:00Poster session II