Interfakultäres Institut für Biomedizinische Informatik (IBMI)

TüBMI 2025

Schedule: 11 July 2025, 9 am - 5 pm
Venue: Alte Aula


We are delighted to have our 14th TüBMI (former TüBiT) in the Alte Aula. 23 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 alumni Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss (Computomics) will be our guest to give a keynote talk.

8:30 am: Registration

9:00 am: Welcome

Session I

Chair: Thales Kronenberger

9:05 am: BMI Lab Flash Talks
Brief introduction of TüBMI research groups by their group leaders

9:20 am: Banu Cetinkaya (Huson Group)
Inferring Phylogenetic Networks from Phylogenetic Trees

9:45 am: Axel Gschwind (Ossowski Group)
Tumor Immunogenicity Unlocked: Multiomics and AI Join Forces to Predict Immunotherapy Response

10:10 am: Coffee Break
10:25 am: Poster Session I

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

Session II

Chair: Kay Nieselt

11:05 am: Florian König (Pfeifer Group)
ClinIAN: Clinically Informed Attention Network

11:30 am: Keynote Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss (Computomics, Managing Director)
Building Great Things Together: Finding the Team Players in Academia and Beyond

12:15 pm: Lunch Break

Session III

Chair: Jacqueline Wistuba-Hamprecht

01:00 pm: Steffen Lemke (Nahnsen Group)
PCI-DB: a novel primary tissue immunopeptidome database to guide next-generation peptide-based immunotherapy development

01:25 pm: Zhigui Bao (Weigel Group)
Complex variations hidden on the Arabidopsis pangenome graphs

01:50 pm: Science Speed Dating
2:35 pm: Coffee Break
2:50 pm: Poster Session II

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

Session IV

Chair: Sepideh Babaei

03:30 pm: Vincent Hammer (Ossowski Group)
Profiling gene expression at tissue boundaries using spatial transcriptomics

03:55 pm: Simon Hackl (Nieselt Group)
Integrating global-scale sequence variability to inform vaccine antigen selection

4:20 pm: PhD Round Table
16:50 pm: Prizes, Conclusion, End of TüBMI

Poster

 

Streamlining T-cell Receptor repertoire research by integrating competitive state-of-the art tools in nf-core/airrflow
Mark Polster


PhyloNaP – a web resource of Phylogenies for enzymes involved in Natural Product biosynthesis
Aleksandra Korenskaia
 

Characterizing Two-Component Signal Transduction with Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Gesa Laura Freimann


Predictive Biocatalyst Selection for Metabolite Synthesis
Jacqueline Wistuba-Hamprecht
 

Exploring microbial plasmidomes using Hi-C metagenomics
Marcos Bermejo
 

BPGA v2.0: An Enhanced Framework for Scalable and Interactive Pangenome Analysis
Julia Fischer
 

DNA binding peptides
Tobias Wörtwein


Spatial and Dynamics Informed Latent-Variable Estimation with Hierarchical Gaussian Processes
Marcello Zago
 

The importance of accurate quantification of spliced and unspliced transcripts for 5’-sequencing data
Jan Schleicher
 

Spatially-enHanced ImmunE Landscape Decoding. Graph attention network (GAT)-based model for supervised, interpretable inference of disease-associated cell-cell interactions from spatial single-cell data
Vivek Sehra
 

Design of a contrast agent protein for detection of endometrial tissue
Tjeerd Dijkstra
 

Human gut flagellome profiling using FlaPro reveals TLR5-related phenotype-specific alterations in IBD
Anna Bogdanova
 

Mutating the mutators: mutational processes acting on transposable elements
Svitlana Sushko
 

A new approach to study the evolution of bacterial plasmids
Stanisław Dunin-Horkawicz
 

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

Predicting Drug Response with Multi-Task Gradient-Boosted Trees in Epilepsy
Julia Hellmig