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Martina Summer-Kutmon @mkutmon.bsky.social · Aug 27

✨Perfect #MaCSBio day out at Alkenrode with my amazing colleagues! These moments are what make us stronger together as a team.🌞 #TeamBuilding #SystemsBiology #Bioinformatics

MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social · Aug 27

Amazing day out with our #MaCSBio team at Alkenrode! 🌞
Workshops (🎶, 🤺, and 🎨), a guided hike through Limburgian hills, pub quiz, and incredible BBQ 😋. Perfect break from research and education - good food, great colleagues, and beautiful surroundings!

#TeamBuilding #SystemsBiology #Bioinformatics

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Martina Summer-Kutmon @mkutmon.bsky.social · Jul 25

✈️💻🧬 Heading home after an inspiring #ISMBECCB2025! Grateful for the amazing talks, great discussions, and fun activities. So nice reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones 🥰
I'm proud of the #NetBio COSI team I get to work with - you're awesome!
@netbio.bsky.social @iscbio.bsky.social

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

⏳ The countdown is on! #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025 kicks off in just 5 minutes!

The organizing team is thrilled to welcome you and share the exciting program. See you there!

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢 Next up: @SaniyaKhullar presents NetREm, a powerful new method revealing how transcription factors coordinate gene regulation across cell types.
From immune cells to Alzheimer’s brains, NetREm maps regulatory networks with real-world validation.
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧬Excited to welcome Giulia Cesaro to present #CellGOSSIP, a novel strategy to decode cell-specific intracellular signaling from noisy single-cell data using personalized network propagation.
🎯 Reveal hidden pathway dynamics and functional cell states!
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #NetBio

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Martina Summer-Kutmon @mkutmon.bsky.social · Jul 24

Love the new logo and how it highlights that this community aims to connect network and graph-based tools/resources, algorithms/methods and their biomedical applications 🤩!

#NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our #NetBio track will continue in a few minutes in room 1B with another set of great talks!

Have you already seen our new logo ✨👏? Thanks @romanayanez.bsky.social for the beautiful design 🥰!

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔊 Up next at #NetBio: Sindhura Kommu presents her work on "Prediction of Gene Regulatory Connections with Joint Single-Cell Foundation Models and Graph-Based Learning."

She couldn’t join us onsite in Liverpool, but is connecting live to share her research ✨!
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔊 Now presenting in our #NetBio track: Ibrahim Alsaggaf introduces Sup-EGsCL, a contrastive learning method using enhanced Gaussian noise augmentation to better predict gene longevity effects from protein-protein interaction networks.

github.com/ibrahimsagga...

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎙️Next #NetBio talk: Kivilcim Ozturk uncovers how mutations in intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) disrupt protein interactions in cancer, revealing potential cellular vulnerabilities.

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next #NetBio talk:
Erik Sonnhammer presents #FunCoup6, an upgrade to the functional association network database, now with enhanced regulatory links, a redesigned interface, and powerful new tools for comparative interactomics and disease module analysis.
funcoup.org
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔊 Next in #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025
Dewei Hu presents:
SPACE: STRING proteins as complementary embeddings

Cross-species network embeddings meet protein function prediction, leveraging STRING across 1,300+ eukaryotes. A powerful complement to sequence embeddings!

#NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

☕️ The #NetBio COSI team will be around during the 4PM coffee break in Room 1B!

Come chat about the COSI, getting involved, or anything else. We’ve got open roles (incl. one Abstract Chair position) for next year. Let’s connect if you are interested! #ISMBECCB2025

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next talk at #NetBio:
@beatrizurda.bsky.social: Disentangling the genetic and non-genetic origin of disease co-occurrences

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

After lots of #NetBio discussions over coffee, we are now starting the last session for today:
Lucas Gillenwater is presenting his #ISMBECCB2025 proceeding paper "GRACKLE: An interpretable matrix factorization approach for biomedical representation learning".

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
#NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next talk at #NetBio is by Aritra Bose from IBM Research presenting their work on "Quantum Random Walks for Biomarker Discovery in Biomolecular Networks".

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

⌛It's already time for our last #NetBio speaker of today:

✨🔊We are excited to welcome our 2nd keynote speaker Jan Baumbach talking about "Quantum computing for network medicine-based epistatic disease mechanism mining - Fake it till you make it?" ✨

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨After a very well-attended first poster session with lots of discussions, we are now starting with the second day of #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025!

Make sure you visit our #NetworkBiology posters in the next two days! Lots of:
- tools/resources
- methods/algorithms
- biomedical applications/use cases

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

#NetBio talks are continuing in room 1B:

Dongmin Bang is presenting his proceeding paper on "MixingDTA: Improved Drug-Target Affinity Prediction by Extending Mixup with Guilt-By-Association"

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔊 Nicoleta Siminea just presented her work on "Interactome-based computational solutions to support personalized drug therapy decisions in glioblastoma" at the #NetBio track at #ISMBECCB2025!

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎤 Next up is Terence Egbelo
He is sharing his research on "Improving Target-Adverse Event Association Prediction by Mitigating Topological Imbalance in Knowledge Graphs" with the #NetBio audience! ✨

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #KnowledgeGraphs

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨Johannes Kersting just presented his cool #Nextflow Pipeline for Network-Based Disease Module Identification and Drug Repurposing

nf-co.re/diseasemodul...
github.com/nf-core/dise...
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #NetBio

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣Last speaker of the #NetBio morning session:
Samuele Firmani is presenting GATE (Graph Antiviral Target Explorer) to predict disease genes in viral infections with Message Passing Neural Networks"

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨ And it's already time for the last selected #NetBio talk! Piotr Sliwa is presenting "Multilayer Networks Identify Clinically Relevant Patient Endotypes in COVID-19 and Sepsis"

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

👋 We wrap up our #NetBio track 2025 with announcing the #Cytoscape network visualization competition winners (woobox.com/b9poce)

Congrats:
1: Alejandra Paulina Perez Gonzalez
2. Michael Costanzo
3. Jong Chan Lim

👏👏👏 Exciting to have Alejandra and Jong in the audience and congrats to Michael!

NetBio Cytoscape Visualization Competition

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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎉 And now it is time to introduce our last and shared keynote with the Microbiome COSI:
@fionabrinkman.bsky.social is talking about "Microbiome multitudes and metadata madness" connecting the #Microbiome and #NetworkBiology communities!

#ISMBECCB2025

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