Interfakultäres Institut für Biomedizinische Informatik (IBMI)

TüBMI 2026

Schedule: 
18 June 2026, 9 am - 5 pm
Venue: 
Cyber Valley Auditorium (Maria-von-Linden-Str. 1, level 6)


We are delighted to have our 15th TüBMI (former TüBiT) on the Campus Cyber Valley. PhD students will present their research with talks and posters, we are looking forward to have fruitful discussions, and to bring together the Bio- and Medical Informatics research community in Tübingen.

We are very pleased that our alumna
Dr. Nora Toussaint 
(Lead of Health & Biomedical | Head of Biomedical Data Science at The Swiss Data Science Center) 
will be our guest to give a keynote talk.

8:30 am: Registration

9:00 am: Welcome

Session I

Chair: tba

9:05 am: Startup Sparks
Quick Ideas to Ignite Your Entrepreneurial Thinking

09:50 pm: Sofiane Ouaari (Pfeifer Group)
How Private Are DNA Embeddings? Inverting Foundation Model Representations of Genomic Sequences

10:15 am: Posters & Coffee I

The list of posters can be found at the bottom of this page.

Session II

Chair: Oliver Kohlbacher

11:05 am: Jan Schleicher (Claassen Group)
Gene regulatory network-based modeling of cellular differentiation

11:30 am: Keynote Dr. Nora Toussaint (The Swiss Data Center)
From Data to Treatment: Swiss Precision Oncology Initiatives

12:15 pm: Lunch Break

Session III

Chair: Veronika Buršić

01:15 pm: Mark Polster (Nahnsen Group)
Structure-based TCR-pMHC binding prediction - From Model to Pipeline

01:40 pm: Matteo Pilz (Kohlbacher Group)
Deep learning enables direct HLA typing from immunopeptidomics data

02:05 pm: Science Speed Dating

02:55 pm: Posters & Coffee II

The list of posters can be found at the bottom of this page.

Session IV

Chair: n.n.

03:45 pm: Turgut Yilmaz (Ziemert Group)
ARTS-DB 2.0: An Expanded Targeted Genome Mining Platform for Bacterial and Fungal Kingdoms

04:10 pm: Arjhun Swaminathan (Akgün Group)
PP-GWAS: Privacy Preserving Multi-Site Genome-wide Association Studies

04:35 pm: PhD Meeting
04:55 pm: Prizes, Conclusion, End of TüBMI

Posters

 

G-LATO: Inference of Spatial Latent Ordering via Deep Gaussian Processes
Marcello Zago


Interactive Phylogenomics of Treponema pallidum for Syphilis Surveillance
Simon Hackl
 

Dissecting Complex Repeats: Lessons from the DIP2B Locus
Lanie Ko


Amplicon Deep Sequencing Reveals High Genetic Diversity of Plasmodium malariae in Gabon
Prithivi Jung Thapa
 

Towards Next-Generation Top-Down Proteomics: FLASHIda:Refine Enables Single-Acquisition Proteoform Characterization via Intelligent Multi-Stage MSn
Tom Müller
 

Evolutionary Genomic Signatures as Roadmaps for Novel Immune Gene Discovery
Sicheng Xu
 

Moderate risk MC1R variants are frequent in MELCAYA patients
Anton Karelin


Massivora: Proteome-Scale Inference of Protein-Protein Interaction from Evolutionary Couplings
Haoran Sun
 

Towards predicting treatment outcome from histopathological images using AI tools
Maximilian Wirth
 

AMULET – Automatic Mapping of UnLabelled Extracellular Transcripts
Gabriel Duval
 

Uncovering the adaptive role of Global Modifiers using a network rewiring perspective
Yutao Cao
 

PP-GWAS: Privacy Preserving Multi-Site Genome-wide Association Studies
Arjhun Swaminathan
 

Flight, Form, and Fitness: Mapping Phenotypic Noise in Drosophila melanogaster
Saudat Alishayeva
 

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