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Programme

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Day 1 - Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Session  1      Chair: Martina Summer-Kutmon
09:00-09:30 Opening
  Bernard Staumont: Welcome words
  Reinhard Schneider: ELIXIR infrastructure in Europe and Luxembourg
09:30-10:30 Keynote 1: Martin Kralinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Strategies to unlock disease information using clinical NLP for different languages: diseases, symptoms, medications, procedures, species, and social determinants of health
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Presentations
  Geoffrey Pawlak: lung.cRegMap: a web platform for unraveling the lung cancer coregulatory network and identifying potential key regulators
  Philippe Castera: Boolean modeling of immune responses to vaccines to uncover their mechanisms and optimize their immunogenicity and efficacy
  Jacob Barhak: The Reference Model for COVID-19 attempts to explain USA data
12:30-14:00 Lunch & poster view
Session  2      Chair: Laurence Calzone
14:00-15:00 Keynote 2: Livia Perfetto, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Toward PatientProfiler, a network-based approach to support personalized medicine
15:00-16:30 Presentations
  Leyla Noroozbabaee: Modeling Toxin-Transporter Dynamics in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Computational and Experimental Framework
  Denes Turei: Knowledge-based methods to extract disease mechanisms from multi-omics data
  David Nickerson: How to manage the complexity of multi-faceted anatomical connectivity maps?
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Poster lightning talks
18:00-19:00 Poster session

Day 2 - Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Session  3      Chair: Anna Niarakis
08:30-09:30 Keynote 3: Joaquin Dopazo, Fundacion Progreso y Salud
Therapeutic target discovery and drug repurposing with causal modeling of disease maps and artificial intelligence
09:30-10:30 Presentations
  Othmane Hayoun-Mya: A calibration-driven multiscale modelling allows for the unveiling of mechanisms behind drug synergies
  Adrien Rougny: A query-driven framework for constructing Boolean networks from disease maps: application to Parkinson’s disease
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Presentations
  Matthias König: libsbgnpy: A Python Library for Handling Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) in Disease Maps
  Ugur Dogrusoz: SBML support in the Newt pathway editor
  Marek Ostaszewski: A roadmap for the MINERVA Platform - recent changes and future plans
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Session  4      Chair: Ahmed Hemedan
14:00-15:00 Keynote 4: Lisa Matthews, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Biocuration and User Interaction in Reactome: A Pathway Towards Community-Driven Knowledge Enrichment
15:00-16:00 Presentations
  Soorya Janakiraman: Understanding plant-based drug mode of action using network pharmacology approach by mapping a drug interactome to disease maps
  Lynn Schriml: DO-KB: a semantic approach driving mechanistic-based modeling to advance disease knowledge
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Presentations
  Matti van Welzen: Data Management and Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research Groups using Disease Maps
  Luiz Ladeira: Disease Maps Community Assessment Survey Results
17:30-18:30 Panel discussion
18:30-19:00 Official photo

Day 3 - Thursday, 17 April 2025

Session  5      Chair: Marek Ostaszewski  
08:30-09:00 Introduction to the community breakout discussions interactive session
submit topics here: https://bit.ly/dmcm-topics
 
09:00-11:00 [in parallel] BIDT session
Building Immune Digital Twins session
 
09:00-11:00 [in parallel] Interactive session in breakout rooms (topics to be defined)  
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  
11:00-12:00 Continuation of parallel sessions  
12:00-12:30 Summary session