› Protein and genomic language models chart a vast landscape of antiphage defenses - Mordret Ernest, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
10:00-10:30 (30min)
› Language Models Outperform Supervised-Only Approaches for Conserved Element Comprehension - Eyes Robson, University of California [Berkeley]
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› An attention-based model for studying bacterial evolution and epidemiology - Samuel Horsfield, EMBL-EBI
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Identification and Classification of Orphan Genes, Spurious Orphan Genes, and Conserved Genes from the human microbiome - Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Wageningen University
13:30-14:00 (30min)
› A differentiable model for detecting diversifying selection directly from alignments in large-scale bacterial datasets - Leonie Lorenz, European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton]
14:00-14:30 (30min)
› Detecting interspecific positive selection using transformers - Charlotte West, European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton]
14:30-15:00 (30min)
› Exploring the space of self-reproducing RNA using generative models - Martin Weigt, Sorbonne University
15:30-16:00 (30min)
› Generative continuous time model reveals epistatic signatures in protein evolution - Barrat-Charlaix Pierre, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle Quantitative et Synthétique
16:00-16:30 (30min)
› PRIVET: PRIVacy metric based on Extreme value Theory - Antoine Szatkownik, LISN
09:30-10:00 (30min)
› Generative models for inferring the evolutionary history of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae - Sara Mathieson, University of Pennsylvania
10:00-10:30 (30min)
› Contrastive Learning for Population Structure and Trait Prediction - Carl Nettelblad, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala]
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Neural posterior estimation for high-dimensional genomic data from complex population genetic models - Yuxin Ning, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = University of Tübingen
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› Popformer: learning general signatures of genetic variation and natural selection with a self-supervised transformer - Leon Zong, University of Pennsylvania
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Likelihood-free inference of phylogenetic tree posterior distributions - Luc Blassel, Département écologie évolutive [LBBE]
09:00-09:30 (30min)
› Graph Neural Networks for Likelihood-Free Inference in Diversification Models - Amélie Leroy, Biologie Computationnelle, Quantitative et Synthétique, Modélisation de la biologie - Ismaël Lajaaiti, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier, Theoretical Ecology Lab - Sophia Lambert, Modélisation de la biologie - Jakub Voznica, Modélisation de la biologie - Maximilian Pichler, Theoretical Ecology Lab - Hélène Morlon, Modélisation de la biologie - Florian Hartig, Theoretical Ecology Lab - Laurent Jacob, Biologie Computationnelle, Quantitative et Synthétique
09:30-10:00 (30min)
› Phylodynamic modeling with unsupervised Bayesian neural networks - Marino Gabriele, ETH Zürich, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
10:00-10:30 (30min)
› Predicting Multiple Sequence Alignment Uncertainty via Machine Learning - Lucia Martin-Fernandez, Biodiversity Computing Group, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
11:00-11:30 (30min)
› Species Identification and aDNA Read Mapping Using k-mer Embeddings - Filip Thor, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala] - Carl Nettelblad, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala]
11:30-12:00 (30min)
› The Phylogenomics and Sparse Learning of Trait Innovations - Gaurav Diwan, Bioquant, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg = Ruprecht-Karls University = Universität Heidelberg = Heidelberg University
12:00-12:30 (30min)
› Predicting natural variation in the yeast phenotypic landscape with machine learning - Sakshi Khaiwal, Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer et le Vieillissement
17:30-18:00 (30min)
› Exploring the archaic introgression landscape of admixed populations through joint ancestry inference -
18:00-18:30 (30min)