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October 6-10, 2026
Oral presentation (Full paper) 15 minutes (12min. presentation/ 3min. Q&A)
Poster presentation 3 minutes (lightning presentation)
* Please be prepared to answer questions during the poster session. In addition, please give the reviewers a brief presentation of approximately three minutes summarizing your work.
7F, Osaka University Nakanoshima Center
4 Chome-3-53 Nakanoshima, Kita Ward, Osaka, 530-0005 Japan
Folk Kitchen @ Hilton Osaka (All-you-can-eat buffet)
1 Chome-8-8 Umeda, Kita Ward, Osaka, 530-0001, Japan
October 6-9, 2026
October 6-10, 2026
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Discussion and Review of Accounting Reports |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Discussion on Organizer Configuration |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Discussion on Committee Composition |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Discussion on Program and Keynote Speaker of DTMBIO 2026 |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30 – 9:40 | Welcome & Opening remark | Junho Kim |
| Session I: Genomic and Regulatory Modeling (DTMBIO Selected Papers) (Chair: Jaejoon Choi) | ||
| 9:40 - 9:55 | In silico design of bacterial terminators with targeted strength using interpretable hybrid modeling | Seojin Kim |
| 9:55 - 10:10 | Machine learning-based prioritization of disease-informative exon skipping events in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy | Yeongmin Kim |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Multimodal Machine Learning with Cell-Specific Regulatory Features for Single-Cell DNA Methylation Prediction | Thanmayee Yeluri |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Break time | |
| Keynote Talk I - Peter Koo (Chair: Yoonjoo Choi) | ||
| 10:40 - 11:30 | Interpretable Deep Learning for Gene Regulation and Sequence Function | Peter Koo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) |
| Lunch Break | ||
| Session II: Advances in Genomics through Long-read Sequencing (Invited Speakers) (Chair: TBA) | ||
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Korean Pangenome Project and segmental duplications | Jun Kim (Chungnam National University) |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Advanced mosaic mutation detection with multi-platform sequencing technologies | Yoo-Jin Jiny Ha (Hanyang University) |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | When One Reference Is Not Enough: Stress-Testing Long-Read Variant Analysis Beyond Diploidy | Yoshinori Fukasawa (Utsunomiya University) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Break time | |
| Session III: Data-Driven Systems Biology of Health and Disease (Invited Speakers) (Chair: Dokyun Na) | ||
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Cancer Research Through the Integration of Omics and Machine Learning | Yosui Nojima (Nara Medical University) |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Single cell multiomics identifies transcription factors driving murine T cell development | Diego Diez (The university of Osaka) |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Bacterial Crosstalk in the Gut: Linking Microbial Networks to Host Health | Koji Hosomi (Osaka Metropolitan University) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Break time | |
| Keynote Talk II - Sangwoo Kim (Chair: Junho Kim) | ||
| 15:50 - 16:40 | Genetic Mutations in Human Disease: From Mendelian Inheritance to Somatic Mosaicism | Sangwoo Kim (Yonsei University) |
| 16:40 - 16:50 | Closing address | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration | |
| Poster Session | ||
| 9:00 – 10:20 | Poster Session (Lighting talk) | |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Break time | |
| Session I: Toxicity and Therapeutic Discovery (DTMBIO Selected Papers) (Chair: Jun Kim) | ||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Mito-CAT: A Tri-modal Cross-Attention Network for Mitochondrial Toxicity Prediction | Jingyu Lee |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | HoME-Ames: Hierarchy of Multi-Gate Mixture-of-Experts for Strain-Panel Ames Mutagenicity Prediction | Myeonghyeon Jeong |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Reference-Conditioned Combinatorial Target Prioritization from Herb-Level Network Proximity Gains | Hanjin Kim |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Identifying Potential Phenotypic Effects of Natural Products and Their Origins for Alternative Source Discovery Using NPKG-GNN | Kowovi Comivi Alowonou |
| Lunch Break | ||
| Session II: Clinical and Biomedical AI (DTMBIO Selected Papers) (Chair: Sunyong Yoo) | ||
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Subgroup Heterogeneity after Local Adaptation of an Echocardiography Foundation Model for HFrEF | Sungwon Hwang |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Peripheral immune marker and network associations with depressive symptoms across statistical approaches | Dawoon Kim |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Lightweight CenterNet-OBB with Skeleton Auxiliary and Hardness Weighting for Chromosome Detection | Hoan Pham |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Chronic disease classification using genetic and non-genetic health-related factors with machine learning in the Korea 4K cohort | Minkyung Choi |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Break time | |
| Session III - AI-Driven Computational Biology (Invited Speakers) (Chair: Dukyong Yoon) | ||
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Protein analysis from multimers to metagenomes | Milot Mirdita (Sungkyunkwan University) |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Drug candidate discovery using machine learning | Giltae Song (Pusan National University) |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Advancing the Scale of Synthetic Biology using machine-learning and big data analytics | Donghee Choe (Sungkyunkwan University) |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | Break time | |
| Keynote Talk III - Natsume Yayoi (Chair: Sunjae Lee) | ||
| 15:40 – 16:30 | Transforming Clinical and Omics Data into Actionable Knowledge for Drug Discovery and Preventive Healthcare | Natsume Yayoi (the Artificial Intelligence Center for Health and Biomedical Research ) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Closing Ceremony | |
| Banquet (18:00 - 21:00) - Folk Kitchen @ Hilton Osaka | ||
| 10:30 – 10:50 | RLRC workshop Introduction | Sunyong Yoo |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Digital Twin of the Cell: Multi-Omics Integration for Predictive Biology | Sunyong Yoo |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | From Multi-Omics Landscapes to Precision Medicine: Unveiling Hidden Regulatory Mechanisms of Disease | Sunjae Lee |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | K-HOPE workshop Introduction | Sunyong Yoo |
| 13:20 – 13:50 | Single-Cell Multi-Modal Omics: Dissecting Cell-Specific Regulatory Networks in Heterogeneous Tissues | Junho Kim |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Systems Toxicology: Multi-Omics Approaches to Predict Drug-Induced Cellular Stress | Jun Kim |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Discussion on Korea–Japan Collaboration in Bioinformatics |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Korea–Japan Bioinformatics Expert Exchange |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Discussion on Joint Collaboration for the Next DTMBIO Conference |