BioAI Hackathon at the University of Warsaw!

06 03 2025
Category: CeNT news, Main page
BioAI Hackathon at the University of Warsaw program.
Monday, May 12 | room at CeNT | |
12:30 PM – 1 PM | Meet and greet | main hall |
1 PM – 3:30 PM | Administrative announcements
Project presentations (15 min per team) |
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3:30 PM – 4 PM | Compute training session | |
4 PM – 8 PM | Team meetings – coding session 1 | 0.187, 0.143, 3.50, 3.54, 4.53 |
Tuesday, May 13 | ||
10 AM – 1 PM | Team meetings – coding session 2 | 0.187, 0.143, 3.50, 3.54, 4.53 |
1 PM – 1:30 PM | Compute training session | 00.142 |
1:30 PM – 2 PM | Keynote talk: The Critical Role of AI-Driven Feature Selection: Research and Real-World Support in Rare Disease Diagnosis Michal J. Dabrowski, PhD (Head of the Computational Biology Group Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw, Poland) |
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2 PM – 4 PM | Presentations of working flowcharts from GitHub (10 min per team) | |
4 PM – 8 PM | Team meetings – coding session 3
5 PM – 5:30 PM Writer’s Group break off |
0.187, 0.143, 3.50, 3.54, 4.53 |
8 PM | In-person social hour | |
Wednesday, May 14 | ||
10 AM – 1:30 PM | Team meetings – coding session 4 | 0.187, 0.143, 3.50, 3.54, 4.53 |
1:30 PM – 2 PM | Invited guest talk: Bioinformatics Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern EuropeKrzysztof Przybylak (Inovo VC) |
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2 PM – 4 PM | Presentations of progress from GitHub (10 min per team) | |
4 PM – 8 PM | Team meetings – coding session 5
5 PM – 5:30 PM Writer’s Group break off |
0.187, 0.143, 3.50, 3.54, 4.53 |
Thursday, May 15 | ||
10 AM – 1 PM | Team meetings – prepare for group presentations | 00.187 |
Challenges include:
- Team 1: Prioritizing disease-associated genes using graph neural networks
- Team 2: AI-Driven Microbiome Analysis for Predicting Poultry Health and Performance
- Team 3: Glycomics: finding connections of glycan modification patterns with type of gene expressed
- Team 4: AI-Driven Prediction of Drug-Protein Interactions for Rare Diseases
- Team 5: Phasing structural variants using phased aligned data
- Team 6: Leveraging LLMs for alternative splicing studies
- Team 7: Harmonization and imputation of epigenomics data – exposome
- Team 8: Discovering cell cycle phase-specific chromatin conformation changes based on single cell Hi-C and multi-omics data
- Team 9: Advanced Modeling of Toxicological Profiles
- Team 10: Developing graph neural networks for gene regulation discovery
- Team 11: Topology wars: loop extrusion vs. chromatin knotting
Contact: bioai-hackathon@cent.uw.edu.pl
Venue: Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw https://cent.uw.edu.pl/
BioAI Hackathon is organized by the Laboratory of Functional and Structural Genomics of the Centre of New Technologies and by the Centre of New Technologies, in collaboration with the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw and Inovo VC.
Scientific Committee:
Professor Dariusz Plewczyński, PhD (CeNT UW), Ben Busby, PhD, Jędrzej Kubica (CeNT UW), Abhishek Agarwal (CeNT UW).