Overview of the Tentative HIBIT 2022 Program

Last Updated Oct.20 2022

Day 1: Oct 20, 2022-Thursday
EVENT TIME(GMT+3) Speaker Title
Start End
Registration 09:00 10:00 Registration
Welcome & Coffee 11:00 11:30 Can Koşukcu Bioinformatics Solutions by QIAGEN
Opening 11:30 11:45 Barış Salihoğlu Opening
Keynote Talk 12:00 13:00 Igor Jouline, OSU/USA Amino acid sensor conserved from bacteria to humans
Lunch 13:00 14:00 Lunch
Invited Talk 1 14:00 14:45 Yesid Cuesta Astroz , CES/CO Multi-omics Data Integration and Network-Based Analysis in the Understanding of Host-Pathogen Interactions
CP Talk 1 14:45 15:10 Melike Berksöz Computational Design Of A Genetically Encoded Iron Biosensor
Selected Talk 1 15:10 15:20 Mehdi Kosaca PROT-ON: Structure-Based Detection of Critical Mutations in Redesigning Protein-Protein Interfaces
Coffee Break 15:20 15:30 Coffee Break
CP Talk 2 15:30 15:55 Asli Kutlu Probing The Structural Impacts Of Arg388 Replacements In Pkp2 Proteın Complex: Spesıfıc Case In Arvc
Selected Talk 2 15:55 16:05 Serbulent Ünsal A Protein Representation Model for Low-Data Protein Function Prediction
Selected Talk 3 16:05 16:15 Almotasem Belah Alhamwi Insight Into Impact of High Resistance-Causing Mutations on Penicillin Binding Protein 3 Of H. Influenzae Suggests an Alternative Approach for Combating Antibiotic Resistance
Poster 16:15 17:15 Poster Session 1
Invited Talk 2 17:30 18:15 Süreyya Özcan, METU/TR Dancing in the Dark: Discovering the Boundaries
Selected Talk 4 18:15 18:25 Gökçe Uludoğan Exploiting Pretrained Biochemical Language Models for Targeted Drug Design
Selected Talk 5 18:25 18:35 Damla Övek Baydar Predicting protein-protein interactions using GCN-based encoder-decoder combined with a transformer
Selected Talk 6 18:35 18:45 Atabey Ünlü Disease Centric Large Scale De Novo Design of Drug Candidate Molecules with Graph Generative Deep Adversarial Networks

Day 2: Oct 21, 2022-Friday
EVENT TIME(GMT+3) Speaker Title
Start End
Registration 08:00 -- Registration
CP Talk 3 9:30 10:00 Deniz Sezin Ayvaz Investigating Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment To Alzheimer's Disease Using Latent Space Manipulation Workshop: Stuctural Bioinformatics Techniques (8:30-12:30)
Yesid Cuesta Astroz, PhD
Burcu Özden Yücel
Ezgi Karaca,PhD
Selected Talk 7 10:00 10:15 Ayşe Nur Çoruh Artificial Learning and Multi-Omics Based Analysis of Large-Scale Cancer Data for Personalized Survival Prediction
Selected Talk 8 10:15 10:30 Hakan Kuru Smart Health Coaching: Behaviour Change Mechanisms and Interaction Strategies in Workplace Health Promotion
Selected Talk 9 10:30 10:45 Melisa Acun Copy-fm: A TOOL FOR DETERMINING FRACTION OF MOSAICISM IN COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS
Coffee Break 10:45 11:00 Coffee Break
Poster 11:00 12:30 Poster Session 2
Lunch 12:30 13:30 Lunch
Invited Talk 3 13:30 14:15 Simon Blanchoud Investigating the Basis of Chordate Whole-body Regeneration by Comparative De Novo Genome Assembly
Selected Talk 10 14:15 14:30 Onur Önder ALLOSTERIC CHANGES IN THE CENTROMERE-SPECIFIC NUCLEOSOME IN RESPONSE TO PHYSICAL FACTORS
Selected Talk 11 14:30 14:45 Mehmet Somel Ancient Upper Mesopotamia, 10,000 years ago: first genomic impressions
Selected Talk 12 14:45 15:00 Nurdan Kuru A Novel Phylogeny-Dependent Coevolution Algorithm
Networking 15:00 16:00 Networking
Coffee Break 16:00 16:15 Coffee Break
TRUBA Session 16:15 16:45 Kerem Karabay TRUBA Session
Keynote Talk 17:00 18:00 Ludmil Alexandrov, UCSD/USA Anthology of unusual patterns of somatic mutations in cancer genomes
Closing Remarks 18:00 19:00 HIBIT AWARD Presentation in memory of NEŞE YALABIK
Gala Dinner 20:00 - Gala Dinner

Day 3: Oct 22, 2022-Saturday RSG Turkey - ONLINE PROGRAM
EVENT TIME(GMT+3) Online Presenter Title
Start End
Opening 10:20 10:30 Opening
Keynote 1 10:30 11:15 Online Yasin Kaymaz, PhD Yet Another New Era for Transcriptomics: Single-Cell
Student Presentation 1 11:15 11:30 Online Barış Altunkara Investigation of Effects of Microenvironment and Immune Cells on Tumor Growth by Agent Based Modeling
Student Presentation 2 11:30 11:45 Online Büşra Savaş A C-term Truncated EIF2Bγ Protein Encoded by an Intronically Polyadenylated Isoform Introduces Unfavorable EIF2Bγ–EIF2γ Interactions
Student Presentation 3 11:45 12:00 Online Merve Uça Assessment of machine-learning- versus experimental structural models of sex-specific isoforms of linker histone H1
Lunch 12:00 13:00 Lunch
Essential Guide for Graduates 13:00 14:15 Essential Guide for Graduates
Student Presentation 4 14:15 14:30 Record Onur Doğan Sex-biased Expression of Neuroimmune Guidance Cues in Cardiovascular Diseases
Coffee Break 14:30 14:45 Coffee Break
Student Presentation 5 14:45 15:00 Online Emrah Akkoyun Reproducable and Scalable Data Analysis on High Performance Computing
Keynote 2 15:00 15:45 Online Assoc. Prof. Duygu Ucar Sex Differences in Vaccine Responses
Coffee Break 15:45 16:00 Coffee Break
Student Presentation 6 16:00 16:15 Online Gülben Avşar Impact of Imputation on the Cell Type Identification in scRNA-seq Datasets
Keynote 3 16:15 17:00 Online Gokcen Eraslan, PhD Toward Understanding Disease Gene Function with Single Cell Genomics and Machine Learning
Networking 17:00 17:30 Networking

Day 3: Oct 22, 2022-Saturday ONSITE PROGRAM
EVENT TIME(GMT+3) Title
Start End
Breakfast with PIs 08:00 12:00 Breakfast
Checkout - 12:00 Checkout until 12:00
Social Program 12:30 - Lunch and visit to Tarsus
Transfer - - Transfer to Airport After Social Program