On October 25, 2021, the 9th Young Bioinformatics PI (YBP) seminar, hosted by West China Hospital of Sichuan University, was successfully held at Chengdu. The seminar aims to promote in-depth academic exchanges among young PI, share their growth experiences, and explore the future development direction and challenges of bioinformatics. More than 100 experts, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology attended the forum.
There were fourteen outstanding young bioinformatics PI who delivered impressive reports referring to the construction of single-cell data algorithms, analytic regulatory relationship in non-coding regional, biomarker mining and population genetics. Unlike other bioinformatics conferences in China, the keynote of the YBP seminar requires each speaker to report only one or two complete works, which allows speakers and other PI to communicate more deeply about the innovations and challenges encountered in their research.
The YBP provides an important platform for the academic exchange of young bioinformatics scholars, and also provides a valuable learning opportunity for the majority of students who are willing to devote themselves to the field of bioinformatics in the era of big data and artificial intelligence.
The YBP was strongly supported by Biomarker Technologies Co, LTD, QIAGEN, Nanjing Vazyme Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing Novogene, Sichuan Xinbiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Sichuan AiQi Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Chengdu SeWeiSi Biotechnology Co., Ltd, and hosted by the Laboratory of Omics Technology and Bioinformatics of West China Hospital of Sichuan University.
Topics in YBP seminar
Lecturer: Yang Xuerui
Institution: Tsinghua University
Topic: Deep-learning strategy for reconstruction of cell-cell interaction landscapes from single-cell spatial transcriptome data
Lecturer: Liu Wanlu
Institution: Zhejiang University
Topic: huARdb: human Antigen Receptor database for interactive clonotype-transcriptome analysis at the single-cell level
Lecturer: Yang Xuerui
Institution: Tsinghua University
Topic: Deep-learning strategy for reconstruction of cell-cell interaction landscapes from single-cell spatial transcriptome data
Lecturer: Zhang Zhihua
Institution: Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (National Center for Bioinformatics)
Topic: Identify hierarchical TAD like structure at single cell level
Lecturer: Wang Chenfei
Institution: Tongji University
Topic: Development and Applications of Single-cell Multi-omics Data Integration Methods
Lecturer: Zhang Xiaoou
Institution: Tongji University
Topic: Genome-wide analysis of polymerase III-transcribed Alu elements suggests cell-type-specific enhancer function
Lecturer:Li Lei
Institution: Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Topic: Computational Modeling of RNA-centric Regulation for Disease Therapeutics
Lecturer: Wang Jinkai
Institution: Sun Yat-sen University
Topic: Positive natural selection of N6-methyladenosine on the RNAs of processed pseudogenes
Lecturer: Zhai Weiwei
Institution: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topic: Harness tumor heterogeneity and evolution for patient stratification
Lecturer: Zhou Fengfeng
Institution: Jilin University
Topic: Learning the latent features from bioOMIC data to detect dark biomarkers of diseases
Lecturer: Wang Chaolong
Institution: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Topic: Inferring demographic history of Asian populations by whole genome sequencing
Lecturer: Jiang Wei
Institution: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Topic: Spaceflight multi-omics data analysis
Lecturer: Zhang Li
Institution: Chinese institute for Brain Research, Beijing
Topic: Drosophila de novo genes quickly become functionally important
Lecturer: Gong Jing
Institution: Huazhong Agricultural University
Topic:Omics data analysis and database construction for multiple animals