The Inaugural BioData Hub Day
We are proud to announce the first BioData Hub Day, a symposium dedicated to the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology. The event will take place on October 7 at the historic Altinate Cultural Centre San Gaetano in Padua. The program features a lineup of four invited keynotes, featuring both international and renowned Italian experts, alongside a series of contributed talks.
The BioData Hub Day serves as a premier forum for the DiBio community to foster new collaborations, showcase cutting-edge research, and exchange specialized expertise in an inspiring environment.
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Programme
October 7, 2026 · Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano, Via Altinate 71, Padua
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45 | Registration desk open | |
| 09:00–09:30 | Introduction | Welcome remarks by Prof. Luigi Bubacco, Director of the Department of Biology |
| 09:30–10:30 | Ivar Koppel - University of Tartu | History of the Univeristy of Tartu HPC Center |
| 10:30 | Micaela Ciervo - UNIPD | From Raw Reads to SNP calling: Computational Challenges in Ancient DNA Analysis |
| 10:45 | Enrico Bortoletto - UNIPD | Integrative Bioinformatics Across Genomes and Transcriptomes: From RNA Biology to Host–Virus Interactions |
| 11:00 | Stefania Pirrotta - UNIPD | mitology: an R package for dissecting mitochondrial activity from transcriptomic data |
| 11:15 | Christine Thomas - UNIPD | Investigating the melanoma dark proteome: integrating Ribo-seq prediction and mass spectrometry |
| 11:30–11:55 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:55 | Dario Righelli - UNIPD | SpatialExperiment and SpaceTrooper |
| 12:10 | Ilaria Billato - UNIPD | Benchmark of single-cell RNA-seq analysis workflows: evaluating scalability across R and Python |
| 12:25 | Riccardo Carangelo - UNIPD | From Docking to Dynamics: HPC-Enabled Studies of Protein Recognition, Signaling, and Inhibition |
| 12:40 | Elena Zuin - UNIPD | Benchmark of single-cell batch correction methods available in the R and Python languages |
| 12:55–14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Nicolas Servant - CurieCoreTech Bioinformatics (CUBIC) | From Omics Data to AI: Building Computational Approaches for Biomedical Research and Precision Medicine |
| 15:00–15:40 | Giorgio Bertorelle Andrea Benazzo - University of Ferrara |
Genomics and biodiversity conservation Reference genome assembly in non-model species |
| 15:40–16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Adeline Morez Jacobs - UNIPD | The Neanderthal in the UK biobank |
| 16:15 | Matteo Bolzonella - UNIPD | Integrating functional and ecological traits perspective with taxonomic diversity to define marine hotspots at global scale |
| 16:30 | Flavia Termignoni - UNIPD | Integrating three molecular layers to investigate genome shock during hybridization |
| 16:45 | Mathieu Pélissié - UNIPD | Developing methods to characterize nonlinear changes in ecological systems and beyond |
| 17:00–18:00 | Aperitivo |