41st TBI Winterseminar in Bled

Info

Welcome to the 41^st TBI Winterseminar in Bled, exploring computational and theoretical biology and chemistry: (RNA-)bioinformatics, graph theory, cheminformatics, and metabolic network modeling. This year's event is organised by Max Faissner · Leonhard Sidl · Hua-Ting Yao.

Time

Sunday, 08 Feb 2026 - Friday, 13 Feb 2026

Registration Fee

300,- € (double room) / 425,- € (single room)

Participants

Institute of Theoretical Chemistry (University of Vienna)
Department of Bioinformatics (University of Leipzig)
Chair of Bioinformatics (University of Freiburg)
Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health (RTH) (University of Copenhagen)
RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis Group (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Algorithms and Models for Integrative Biology (École Polytechnique/CNRS)
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science (University of Southern Denmark)
and guests (by invitation only).

Location(s)

Villa Plemelj
Prešernova 39
4260 Bled, Slovenia
Phone: +386 4 5743 023
GPS Coordinates: 46.371121,14.108504

Hotel Astoria
Prešernova 44
4260 Bled, Slovenia
Phone: +386 4 579 44 00
Fax: +386 4 579 44 01

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How to get there
From Ljubljana airport you have the following options to get to the Winterseminar:

take a regular taxi (approx. 50 €)
public bus transfer, first to Ljubljana city and from there to Bled
Airport Shuttle ZUP prevozi (special rates for groups)
New airport public bus to Bled (recommended, cheap and run every hour)

If you arrive via train at Lesce-Bled, you can take a taxi or go by bus to the main bus station (search for connections from Lesce to Bled)

Registration

If you want to attend the 41^st TBI Winterseminar in Bled, please register via our registration page below (password required)

Registration is open since Monday, 10 Nov 2025 until Friday, 12 Dec 2025. (+17 days remaining)

In case you have further questions, please send an email to the organizers:
bled (at) viennarna (dot) at

Registered Participants

Number	Name		Affiliation	Talk Title
1	Leonhard	Sidl	TBI Wien	Designing novel xrRNA Structures using Infrared
2	Casper Asbjørn	Eriksen	SDU Odense	ChemRecon: Exploring Ontologies Within and Between Biochemical Databases
3	Christoph	Flamm	TBI Wien	The Math of Origami
4	Christiane	Gärtner	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	Sex differences in allele-specific methylation in humans
5	Akbar	Davoodi	SDU Odense	TBA
6	Stephan	Bernhart	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig
7	Anne-Susann	Abel	SDU Odense
8	Maximilian	Faissner	TBI Wien	🔮 Ethical Hawking Farming: Sustainable Harvests of Evaporating Black Holes
9	Ella	Cassidy	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	Not your average archaeon: CCA diversity of Heimdallarchaeota
10	Nora	Beier	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	🔮 Photosynthesis of Sound: Growing Plants with Pure Music
11	Nadia	Tahiri	University of Sherbrooke	Classification of Phylogenetic Networks: A Combinatorial Perspective
12	Erika	Herrera Machado	FSU Jena
13	Sissel	Banke	SDU Odense
14	Aleksandra	Olshanova	SDU Odense	Molecular design using learnable graph grammars
15	Marc	Hellmuth	Stockholm University	maybe-if there are enough timeslots
16	Anna	Lindeberg	Stockholm University	TBD: something about LCAs
17	Patricia	Ebert	Stockholm University	From Best Matches to Phylogenetic Networks
18	Tieu-Long	Phan	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	Syn?
19	Lukas	Böhm	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	🔮 Seismology of Rainbows: Measuring Spectrumquakes
20	Tuyet Minh	Phan	Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig	🔮 Neuroeconomics of Dinosaurs: Behavioral Finance in the Late Cretaceous
21	Hua-Ting	Yao	TBI Wien	🔮 404: Talk Title Not Found
22	Thomas	Spicher	TBI Wien	The impact of modified nucleotides on RNA secondary structure
23	Klaus	Weinbauer	TU Wien	Unbalanced Reactions
24	Philipp	Reiser	TBI Wien	Bidirectional Mass Spectrometry Modeling Aided by Auxiliary Intermediate Steps From Graph Transformation Tools
25	Mikkel	Boger Posselt	SDU Odense	Pruning Chemical Reactions to find energetically optimal reaction templates
26	Guillaume	Scholz	unattached	Arboreal Ultrametrics

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