AI Applications in Biomedical Sciences

Vic, November 15th 2024

Can Bauman, Campus UMedicina, UVic-UCC

This workshop explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in biomedical science. Participants will gain an understanding of how AI technologies, including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), are applied to solve complex problems in fields such as genomics or medical data.

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General information

The workshop is co-organized by the Research Group of Bioinformatics and Bioimaging (BI2), Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering (FCTE) of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) and the Area of Bioinformatics and Bioimaging of the Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la Vida i de la Salut a la Catalunya Central (IRIS-CC).

Workshop Program

When	Who	What
10:00	Opening: Welcome address by the organizers. Malu Calle (Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Engineering) and José Jerónimo Navas (Director of the Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la Vida i de la Salut a la Catalunya Central).
Round table “AI in omics data analysis”. Chair: Malu Calle
10:20	Tomás Montserrat (CNAG)	Revealing the Prevalence of Suboptimal Cells and Organs in Reference Cell Atlases: An Imperative for Enhanced Quality Control
10:30	Roger Casals (IRIS-CC, CBBL, BI2 group)	Mechanistic prediction of cell state transitions at single-cell resolution
10:40	David Pujal (BI2 group, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE, CSIC-UPF)	Identification and functional characterization of piRNAs in Blattella germanica
10:50	Q&A session
11:05	Coffee break and poster session S1/S2
Round table “AI in data and image analysis”. Chair: Gerard Encina-Llamas
11:30	Carlo Manzo (QuBi lab, BI2 group, FCTE, UVic-UCC)	Quantitative Microscopic Imaging through Physics-informed and Geometric Deep Learning
11:40	Pere Martí (DSP group, FCTE, UVic-UCC)	Time Series Processing: Practical Applications
11:50	Laura Dempere (BI2 group, FCTE, UVic-UCC)	Decoding the impact of aging in the interaction between working memory and visual attention
12:00	Q&A session
Round table “AI in medical informatics”. Chair: Jordi Villà-Freixa
12:15	Gerard Encina-Llamas (Lecturer and Scientific Coordinator of the BSc in General Audiology at UVic-UCC; Principal Investigator at the Catalan Hearing Science and Balance research group (grCAEC); Researcher at the Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center (CHBC), Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen)	Towards precision audiology
12:25	Joanna Luberadzka (Lecturer of psychoacoustics at the BSc in General Audiology at UVic-UCC; Postdoctoral researcher at the Multimedia Technologies Unit at the Eurecat – Catalan Technological Center)	ChatAid: Evaluating Interactive Communication Benefits of Hearing Aids Using Conversational Agents
12:35	Q&A session
12:45	Closing remarks

List of Submitted Posters

(last update, Oct 24th, 2024)

Authors	Title
Roger Casals, Jordi Villà-Freixa, Lara Nonell, Adrián López García de Lomana	Trajectory inference and transcriptional regulators of T cell response upon immunotherapy in non-melanoma skin cancer.
Nayanika Das, Vijay Bhaladye, Jordi Villà-Freixa	Conformational and activity free energy simulations of glutathione peroxydase 6 (GPX6) homologs.
Mireia Olivella	Bioinformatic tools towards GRIN variants stratification.
Meritxell Pujolassos Tanyà, Alexander Kurilshikov, Sasha Zhernakova, M.Luz Calle Rosingana	Disease-specific bacterial signatures are associated to general population health status.
Gabriel Ruiz Alias	A novel computational model for missense variants pathogenicity prediction.
Jordi Solé-Casals, Xavier Sánchez Corrales	Analyzing voice signal in male depression using empirical mode decomposition.
Jing Yang	Cstar Analysis Reveals New Therapeutic Targets for Enhancing Survival and Reversing Bladder Cancer Progression.