BioInformatics in Torun 2025 — Speakers

A tentative and partial list of BIT25 speakers:

  • Ivet Bahar
    Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology;
    Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
    "In silico modeling of protein dynamics: Towards discovering effective modulators of function"

  • Helmut Grubmüller
    Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Dept. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Göttingen, Germany

    "Freezing ribosomes, wet proteins, flying peptides"

  • Valerian E Kagan
    Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    "Chemistry and Biochemistry of Signaling by Oxidized Phospholipids"

  • Hülya Bayır
    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care and Hospital Medicine, Redox Health Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA

  • Ingo H Greger
    University of Cambridge, UK
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

    "How glutamate receptor structure relates to learning in the brain"

  • David Koes
    University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, USA

  • Jose Maria Carazo
    Biocomputing Unit, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
    "Estimating conformational ensembles by cryo Electron Microscopy"

  • Krzysztof Kuczera
    Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA;
    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

  • Adam Liwo
    Laboratory of Molecular Modeling, Department of Theoretical Chemistry
    Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Poland

  • Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
    "Speeding up glycoprotein modeling - from coarse-grained models to glycan grafting"
  • Janusz M. Bujnicki
    Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering
    International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland 

    "Computational modeling of RNA structure, dynamics, and interactions"

  • Tomasz Kościółek
    Sano Centre for Computational Personalised​ Medicine, Krakow, Poland

  • Wladek Minor
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, USA
    "Data Mining in Biomedical Sciences. Big Data Perspective"

  • Paweł Rubach
    Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland

  • Krzysztof Zienkiewicz
    Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
    "Stress Scripts for Lipid Wealth: Dual Transcriptomic Views of Nannochloropsis Under Nitrogen and Light Pressure"

  • Slawomir Filipek
    University of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland
    "Molecular Modeling of Membrane Proteins"

  • Jan Brezovsky
    Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
    International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
    "Exposing unseen passages for ligand transport within enzymes with high-throughput simulations"

  • Witold Rudnicki
    University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
    "Information Theory and Machine Learning Reveal Synergistic Interactions in Gut Microbiota Related to Food Allergy"

  • Bartosz Różycki
    Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
    "Multiscale simulations of biomembranes and proteins"

  • Bartek Wilczynski
    Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    "Can we predict promoter activity with AI?"

The list of speakers will be updated.