Welcome to the ISCB SC RSG-Türkiye 12th Student Symposium!
We are excited to announce that this year's symposium will be held on October 30 and November 2 2025 at Medipol University, Istanbul as part of the HIBIT 2025 Conference.
RSG-Türkiye is a student-led, non-profit organization that supports young researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics. Our annual symposium fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among undergraduate students and early-career researchers while promoting equal opportunities in education. This year, we look forward to celebrating our 12th anniversary by showcasing cutting-edge research and methods in these fields.
This year’s RSG Symposium features:
- ✔ Keynote talks
- ✔ Best poster and best talk prizes
- ✔ Networking sessions
- ✔ And many more exciting and new segments
We hope to see you in Istanbul!
RSG-Türkiye Team
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Registration Deadline:
Early Registration: 15 October 2025 23:59
Late and On-site Registration: 30 October 2025
Abstract Deadline:25 September 23:59
Author notification: 13 October 2025
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Workshop Instructors
Panelists
Onur Emre Onat
MODERATOR
Seray Karaçay
(Massive Bioinformatics)
Saliha Durmuş
(PHITECH)
Tolga Aslan
(Genomize)
Can Koşukcu
(QIAGEN)
Symposium Program
| October 30, 2025 - Workshop Day | |
|---|---|
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Özkan Özdemir - GenNext Variant Filtering |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | Selcen Arı Yuka - Transcriptome Analysis |
| November 2, 2025 - RSG Symposium | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Registration |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Opening Remarks: Computational Biology and Data Analysis in Health: From Omics to Artificial Intelligence |
| Computational Biology and Data Analysis in Health: From Omics to Artificial Intelligence | |
| 09:30 - 10:10 | Speaker: Özkan Özdemir | Artificial Intelligence and FAIR Principles in Health |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Student Presentation 1: Talha Vatansev | Decoding Tumor Identity: An Integrative Machine Learning Approach Reveals Immune Dichotomy in Thyroid Cancer |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Student Presentation 2: Mehmet Ali Erdoğan | Benchmarking Metabolic Network-based Biomarker Discovery Methods |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Student Presentation 3: Gülüzar Nur Karahan | Genomic Duplication Leaves Its Mark on Sequenced Transcriptome |
| 10:55 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Speaker: Ogün Adebali | Evolutionary Analysis of Functional Specialization in Protein Families |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Student Presentation 4: Gülnur Uzun | Evaluating Single-Cell RNA-seq Integration Strategies to Decipher Psoriasis Heterogeneity |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Student Presentation 5: Seyit Semih Yiğitarslan | Language Modeling-Based Generative Artificial Intelligence for De Novo Protein Design |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Poster Session & Lunch Break |
| From Code to Capsule: Computational Drug Design | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Speaker: Vildan Enisoğlu Atalay | A New Approach in Drug Design: Computational Chemistry |
| 14:10 - 14:25 | Student Presentation 6: Kübranur Kazan | Programmable Protein Communication: Optimal Control Sites and Time-Resolved Communication Maps |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Student Presentation 7: Kaan Kara | Genome-Scale Metabolic Flux Analysis Meets Polygenic Risk Scores |
| 14:40 - 14:55 | Student Presentation 8: Anthony Ior | CovMutEx: SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Explorer and Prediction Tool |
| 14:55 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 - 15:55 | Speaker: Nurcan Tunçbağ | Discovery of Hidden Biomolecular Connections in Modeling Complex Diseases with Network Medicine Approaches |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Bioinformatics in the Private Sector Panel
Moderator: Onur Emre Onat Panelists: Tolga Aslan (Genomize), Seray Karaçay (Massive), Saliha Durmuş (PHITECH) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Award Ceremony & Closing |