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: Kaiyu Qiu (Lupas Group)
Detecting protein repeats using sequence embeddings from protein language models

10:15 am: Posters & Coffee I

The list of posters will be published at the bottom of this page.

Session II

Chair: Oliver Kohlbacher

11:00 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: tba

01:00 pm: Mark Polster (Nahnsen Group)
Structure-based TCR-pMHC binding prediction - From Model to Pipeline

01:25 pm: Matteo Pilz (Kohlbacher Group)
Deep learning enables direct HLA typing from immunopeptidomics data

01:50 pm: Science Speed Dating

02:35 pm: Arjhun Swaminathan (Akgün Group)
PP-GWAS: Privacy Preserving Multi-Site Genome-wide Association Studies

03:00 pm: Posters & Coffee II

The list of posters will be published at the bottom of this page.

Session IV

Chair: Sepideh Babaei

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

04:35 pm: PhD Meeting

04:55 pm: Prizes, Conclusion, End of TüBMI

The list of posters will soon be available.