6th of June 2025 in Turku
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The Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CompLifeSci proudly join forces to organize the Bioinformatics day 2025 with 2 Keynote speakers, 9 talks selected from abstract, 3 poster session, countless networking opportunities and much more!
Register today to secure your spot on this most spectacular bioinformatics events of the year!
About the Bioinformatics Day
Bioinformatics day is a yearly event that gathers all bioinformaticians around Finland for a day full of Science, Networking and fun.
In 2025, the Bioinformatics Day is organized for the first time as a collaboration of the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CompLifeSci. This allows us to double the resources, double the science, and double the fun! We are expecting this to be the most spectacular Bioinformatics day ever!
Where: Cave Auditorium, Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki: Lemminkäisenkatu 12 B (Almost next to Kupittaa railway station in Turku)
When: 6th of June 2025 from 9 am to 4 pm. And Networking event from 4 pm until late.
Keynote Speakers
Liisa Holm
Liisa Holm is a professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She earned her MSc and PhD from the University of Helsinki before conducting postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. She later led a research group at the European Bioinformatics Institute and has held faculty positions at the University of Helsinki since 2002, including a year as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Her research focuses on structural bioinformatics and protein evolution, with applications in functional genomics, protein classification, and structure-function prediction. Holm is among Finland’s most cited bio- and environmental scientists.
Tero Aittokallio
Tero Aittokallio received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Turku in 2001. He then did his post-doctoral training in the Systems Biology Lab at the Institut Pasteur (2006-2007), where he focused on network biology applications using high-throughput experimental assays and network analysis. In 2007, Dr. Aittokallio launched his independent career as a principal investigator in the Turku Biomathematics Research Group, where he received a five-year appointment as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2007-2012). Tero Aittokallio joined Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) as EMBL Group Leader in 2011, and was selected as Professor of Biostatistics, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oslo, in 2019
Program
- 2 keynote speakers
- 7 talks selected from abstracts
- 3 poster sessions with coffee
- Many possibilities for networking
- Over 150 attendees
9.00-9.15: Opening words
Julia Mathlin (Chair of the Board of Finnish Society for Bioinformatics)
Tuomas Borman (Coordinator of CompLifeSci)
9.15-10.00: Keynote speaker
Liisa Holm (University of Helsinki)
Chair: Heli Mönttinen (Finnish Society for Bioinformatics)
10.00-10.45: Coffee
Poster session 1 and coffee at the lobby
CompLifeSci Annual meeting in Cave Auditorium
10.45-12.15: Talks selected from abstracts
Michael Courtney (University of Turku): Molecular and Computational Workflows to facilitate the druggability of rare diseases
Matti Ruuskanen (University of Turku): Biome-specific genome catalogues reveal functional potential of shallow sequencing
António Sousa (University of Turku): Coralysis enables sensitive identification of imbalanced cell types and states in single-cell data via multi-level integration
Pekka Postila(University of Turku): SynGAP Missense Server: Making Sense of Missense in a Rare Children’s Neurological Disease
Chair: Iivari Kleino (Finnish Society for Bioinformatics)
12.15-13.15: Lunch at Mauno, poster session
13.15-14.00: Keynote speaker
Tero Aittokallio (Oslo University)
Chair: Leo Lahti (CompLifeSci)
14.00-15.00: Coffee
Poster session 2 and coffee at the lobby,
Finnish Society for Bioinformatics Annual meeting at the Cave Auditorium
15.00-16.00: Talks selected from abstracts
Liang Zhang (Tampere University): A biologically informed AI framework for precise stratification of cancer patients using their genomic features
Pasi Rastas (University of Helsinki): Sex-specific fish recombination landscapes link recombination and karyotype evolution
Balázs Bálint(University of Turku): Sensitive detection and removal of contamination from annotated genomes by ContScout.
Chair: Elio Nushi (Finnish Society for Bioinformatics)
16:15-16:15: Announcing the poster competition winner, Closing words
Julia Mathlin (Chair of the Board of Finnish Society for Bioinformatics)
Tuomas Borman (Coordinator of CompLifeSci)
Networking continues at CIRCUS rooftop until 00.00
The Bioinformatics Day is open to all everyone interested in Bioinformatics!
The Bioinformatics Day is organized by the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CompLifeSci
Finnish Society for Bioinformatics
The Finnish Society for Bioinformatics is for everyone interested in Bioinformatics in Finland
- Over 100 members around Finland
- The central hub for bioinformaticians in Finland
- Networking events, jobs, information and much more
CompLifeSci
Computational and Molecular Methods in Life Sciences Research Program at the BioCity Turku.
- 20 group leaders
- 13 associate group leaders
- Located in Turku