Keynotes
Professor Ana Conesa at the Spanish National Research Council creates the interface that translates raw big data into biological conclusions. Bioinformatical tool development is an increasingly crucial part of modern life science and will grow with the necessity for integrating multimodal data. Ana Conesa and her team have decided to address this necessity head-on by developing tools such as PaintOmics, MultiBaC, MORE, and more.
Ann Nordgren is a Chief Physician and Professor in Clinical Genetics at Karolinska institute and University of Gothenburg working with rare disease diagnostics and child cancer. Among other things she is the main responsible for the national ChiCAP-study about genetic disposition for child cancer. She also organized the Undiagnosed Hackathon event, combining over 100 experts from 28 countries to help diagnose previously undiagnosed families using bioinformatics tools and analyses.
Being Research Director at the Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University of Helsinki, Caroline Heckman plays a central role in guiding scientific research, much like the heart orchestrates the flow of blood. Working closely with the clinic, her research aims at understanding disease heterogeneity and drug resistance in blood cancers by applying genomic approaches, and translating the findings to patient care. She is tackling Leukemias by finding novel attack points, forcing differentiation or targeting the cell's innate DNA repair pathway.
Established 2023 in Lund University, Jacob Vogel and his team focuses on neurobiology and Alzheimer's research by implementing cutting-edge data science methodologies to elucidate neurodegenerative progression and pathogenesis. More specifically, he integrates neuroimaging and multi-omics data and applies supervised and unsupervised models to decipher tau protein distribution. He is part of the BioFINDER consortium, one of the world's foremost efforts to tackle neurodegenerative diseases with extensive data collection.
For spatial single-cell sequencing Professor Joakim Lundeberg at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) works on the cutting-edge. Part of the Spatial Research alliance, the developers of the Nature's method of the year 2020: spatially resolved transcriptomics, the foundational technology behind the 10x Visium platform. His work has given insights into various disease pathologies from skin cancers to Parkinson’s disease.
Stefanie Prast-Nielsen is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Medical Microbiology and Senior Research Specialist at the Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Karolinska Institutet. It is evident that diet and health have a strong connection, but there are few examples as good as the link between the ketogenic diet and drug resistant epilepsy. Despite this strong link, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Professor Stefanie Prast-Nielsen is working to uncover these mechanisms, bringing new insights into how the gut microbiome and metabolism affect brain activity and therapeutic possibilities.