HiTSeq 2025

Schedule of HiTSeq 2023
July 25-26, 2023, Lyon, France

Keynote speakers


Jan Korbel
Jan Korbel
Head of Data Science
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Irene Papatheodorou
Irene Papatheodorou
Team Leader
European Bioinformatics Institute, UK


July 25, 2023

10:30
Welcome remarks
10:35



Keynote: Using single cell data to understand disease and cell type differences across species
Irene Papatheodorou,  European Bioinformatics Institute
11:30



Detecting Chromosomal Translocations using Augmented Genome Sequence Graphs. Alister D'Costa, Philip Zuzarte, Michael Molnar, Tracy Murphy, Mark Minden, Yun William Yu,
Jared Simpson
11:50


VeChat: Correcting errors in long reads using variation graphs. Xiao Luo, Xiongbin Kang, Alexander Schoenhuth
12:10


RawHash: Enabling Fast and Accurate Real-Time Analysis of Raw Nanopore Signals for Large Genomes. Can Firtina, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Joel Lindegger, Gagandeep Singh, Meryem Banu Cavlak, Haiyu Mao, Onur Mutlu



12:30
Lunch break



13:40


ALLSTAR: Inference of ReliAble CausaL RuLes between Somatic MuTAtions and CanceR Phenotypes. Dario Simionato, Antonio Collesei, Federica Miglietta, Fabio Vandin
14:10


Estimate mutational signature exposure from sparse clinical sequencing data.  Arnab Chakrabarti, Hiroshi Hamano, Lancelot Seillier, Kjong-Van Lehmann
14:30



PEKORA: High-Performance 3D Genome Reconstruction Using K-th Order Spearman's Rank Correlation Approximation.  Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann
14:50



Genetic interactions between translesion DNA synthesis enzymes in cancer. Aleix Bayona-Feliu, Marcos Moreno, Sergio Marín-Edo, Marcel McCullough, Miguel-Martín Álvarez, Fran Supek
15:10



Deep statistical modelling of nanopore sequencing translocation times reveals latent non-B DNA structures. Marjan Hosseini, Aaron Palmer, William Manka, Patrick GS Grady, Venkata Patchigolla, Jinbo Bi, Rachel O'Neill, Zhiyi Chi, Derek Aguiar



15:30
Coffee break



16:00


SuperSampler: efficient scaled sketches for metagenomics and extensive genomics compositional analysis. Timothé Rouzé, Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset
16:20


Locality-Preserving Minimal Perfect Hashing of K-Mers. Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Yoshihiro Shibuya, Antoine Limasset
16:40


Building a Pangenome Alignment Index via Recursive Prefix-Free Parsing. Marco Oliva, Travis Gagie, Christina Boucher
17:00

Effects of Spaced k-mers on Alignment-Free Genotyping. Hartmut Häntze, Paul Horton
17:20

Seeding with Minimized Subsequence. Xiang Li, Qian Shi, Ke Chen, Mingfu Shao
17:40


Scalable sequence database search using Partitioned Aggregated Bloom Comb-Trees. Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset



July 26, 2023


10:35


Keynote: Deciphering genomic disease mechanisms via single-cell & single-molecule sequencing
Jan Korbel,  European Molecular Biology Laboratory
11:30


Coriolis: Enabling metagenomic classification on lightweight mobile devices. Andrew Mikalsen, Jaroslaw Zola
11:50


Metabuli: sensitive and specific metagenomic classification through a novel joint analysis of amino-acid and DNA sequences. Jaebeom Kim, Martin Steinegger
12:10


HaploDMF: viral haplotype reconstruction from long reads via deep matrix factorization.  Dehan Cai, Jiayu Shang



12:30

Lunch break



13:50

SVJedi-graph: improving the genotyping of close and overlapping Structural Variants with long reads using a variation graph. Sandra Romain, Claire Lemaitre
14:10

Taxor: Fast and space-efficient taxonomic classification of long reads. Jens-Uwe Ulrich,
Bernhard Renard
14:30


Leveraging Evolutionary Constraints to Refine Somatic Variant Calls from Single-Cell Sequencing Data. Gryte Satas, Matthew A. Myers, Seongmin Choi, Sohrab Shah
14:50



Themisto: a scalable colored k-mer index for sensitive pseudoalignment against hundreds of thousands of bacterial genomes. Jarno Alanko, Simon Puglisi, Tommi Mäklin,
Jaakko Vuohtoniemi,
15:10




A multi-locus approach for accurate variant calling in low-copy repeats using whole-genome sequencing. Timofey Prodanov, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf 40225, Germany, Germany
Vikas Bansal



15:30

Coffee break



16:00



Variational Inference for Single-Cell Transcriptome with DNA Barcoding Reconstructs Unobserved Cell States and Differentiation Trajectories. Koichiro Majima, Kodai Minoura,
Yasuhiro Kojima, Teppei Shimamura
16:20


GAN-based Data Augmentation for Transcriptomics: Survey and Comparative Assessment. Alice Lacan, Michele Sebag, Blaise Hanczar
16:40


Visualizing Spatial Transcriptomics with U-CIE Color Encoding. Mikaela Koutrouli, Radha Swaminathan, Jeremy Edwards, Lars Juhl Jensen
17:00




CellFromSpace: A versatile tool for spatial transcriptomic data analysis through reference-free deconvolution and guided cell type/activity annotation. Corentin Thuilliez,
Maria Eugenia Marques Da Costa, Nathalie Gaspar, Pierre Khneisser, Gael Moquin-Beaudry, Jean-Yves Scoazec, Antonin Marchais
17:20


demuxSNP: supervised demultiplexing of scRNAseq data using cell hashing and SNPs. Michael P Lynch, Yufei Wang, Laurent Gatto, Aedin C Culhane
17:40



Foreign RNA spike-ins enable accurate allele-specific expression analysis at scale. Asia Mendelevich, Saumya Gupta, Aleksei Pakharev, Athanasios Teodosiadis, Andrey Mironov, Alexander Gimelbrant