Info
Welcome to the 41st 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
Prešernova 39
4260 Bled, Slovenia
Phone: +386 4 5743 023
GPS Coordinates: 46.371121,14.108504
How to get there
From Ljubljana airport you have the following options to get to the Winterseminar:
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)
Registration
Registration is closed
In case you have further questions, please send an email to the organizers:
bled (at) viennarna (dot) at
bled (at) viennarna (dot) at
Program
Find the Program calendar here.
Registered Participants
| Number | Name | Affiliation | Talk Title | Payment Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonhard | Sidl | TBI Wien | Designing novel xrRNA Structures using Infrared | |
| 2 | Casper Asbjørn | Eriksen | SDU Odense | ChemRecon: A Consolidated Meta-Database Platform for Biochemical Data Integration | |
| 3 | Christoph | Flamm | TBI Wien | The Math of Origami | |
| 4 | Christiane | Gärtner | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | ||
| 5 | Akbar | Davoodi | SDU Odense | Exact and Agnostic Recovery in the Data Block Model | |
| 6 | Stephan | Bernhart | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | ||
| 7 | Anne-Susann | Abel | SDU Odense | ||
| 8 | Maximilian | Faissner | TBI Wien | From Structure to Screen: MD-Ready Enzyme-Substrate Pairs | |
| 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 | ||
| 16 | Anna | Lindeberg | Stockholm University | Networks from LCA constraints | |
| 17 | Patricia | Ebert | Stockholm University | From Best Matches to Phylogenetic Networks | |
| 18 | Tieu-Long | Phan | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | SynEdu | |
| 19 | Lukas | Böhm | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Learning Graph Property Rules | |
| 20 | Tuyet Minh | Phan | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | SynDOKU: A Constraint Programming Framework for Chemical Reaction Network Assignment | |
| 21 | Hua-Ting | Yao | TBI Wien | ||
| 22 | Thomas | Spicher | TBI Wien | The impact of post-transcritional modifications on the tRNA secondary structure | |
| 23 | Klaus | Weinbauer | TU Wien | On the Existence of Sufficient Explainers for Classification | |
| 24 | Philipp | Reiser | TBI Wien | Bidirectional Mass Spectrometry Modeling Aided by Auxiliary Intermediate Steps From Graph Transformation Tools | |
| 26 | Guillaume | Scholz | unattached | Arboreal Ultrametrics | |
| 27 | Carlos | Ugarte | MPI EVA Leipzig | Inferring ancestors and modeling change: A modular computational approach to disentangling language evolution | |
| 28 | Katrin | Gutenbrunner | TBI Wien | BlockBuster2D | |
| 29 | Karl | Kaether | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Automated Synteny Computation | |
| 30 | Ivo | Hofacker | TBI Wien | ||
| 31 | Deza | Amistas | FSU Jena | Essential contexts in rule-based modeling | |
| 32 | Joseph | Smith | TBI Wien | Using Graph Rewite Rules to Plan Novel Enzymatic Cascades | |
| 33 | Agata | Kilar | TBI Wien | Novel Structural Elements and How to Find Them | |
| 34 | Ivan Andre | Morillo Guerrero | University of Sao Paulo | Evolutionary origin of the LncRNA RMST in Tunicates | |
| 35 | Patrick-Pascal | Koller | TBI Wien | Disruptive base-pairs | |
| 36 | Christopher | Stephens | Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | A Bayesian Classifier Approach to Causal Inference in Complex Adaptive Systems | |
| 37 | Wan-Ju | Lee | unattached | ||
| 38 | Johannes Borg Sandberg | Petersen | SDU Odense | ||
| 39 | Peter | STADLER | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Assembly on hypergraphs | |
| 40 | BARBEL | STADLER | Uni Leipzig Neuromorphe Informationsverarbeitung | ||
| 41 | Bruno | Schmidt | MPI MIS Leipzig | TBA - most likely about transitive partition of directed graphs | |
| 42 | Alexander | Blokhuis | IMDEA Nanociencia | On structural laws for oscillations in chemical reaction networks | |
| 43 | Daniel | Merkle | Bielefeld University | ||
| 44 | Anela | Tosevska | Medical University of Vienna | ||
| 45 | Stefan | Mueller | U Vienna, Math Fac | Self-fabrication (autocatalysis) in next-generation models of cellular growth | |
| 46 | Yitao | Cai | TBI Wien | sc-GRIP: A Graph Convolutional Approach to Infer Gene Interaction Polarity | |
| 47 | Richard | Golnik | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Enumerating autocatalytic subsystems in large chemical reaction networks | |
| 48 | Stefan | Badelt | TBI Wien | The fuzzyfold workspace: fast, modular, and extensible RNA folding kinetics | |
| 49 | Nino | Bašić | University of Primorska & IMFM | Bipartite edge frustration of nut graphs | |
| 50 | Thanh-An | Pham | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | SynArt: Attention in Reaction Prediction | |
| 51 | Nicolas | Wieseke | PaCoSy Leipzig | ||
| 53 | Mikkel | Wolfhagen | RTH Copenhagen | GU in CRISPR off-targets: wobble or mismatch? | |
| 54 | Jose Antonio | Ramirez Rafael | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | From Reviewer Requests to Rigorous Evaluation: Building Unbiased Benchmarks for Evolutionary Scenarios | |
| 55 | Josef | Leydold | WU Wien | Bubblespace on Hypergraphs | |
| 56 | Ronny | Lorenz | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | ||
| 57 | Maria | Herberg | unattached | ||
| 58 | Carsten R. | Seemann | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | ||
| 59 | Katarina | Gacevic | TBI Wien | RNA Sequence Design with 2.5D Structural Constraints | |
| 60 | Daniel | Nimptsch | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Full-length Isoform Splice-Aware Synthetic RNA-Seq Benchmark of Transcript Assemblers and Quantifiers | |
| 61 | Rebecca | Holzschuh | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Analysis of Complex Discrete Difference Data | |
| 62 | Dulce I. | Valdivia | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | tRNAs & melanoma | |
| 63 | Thomas | Mohr | PaCoSy Leipzig | ||
| 64 | Arina | Shelashen | Bioinformatik Uni Leipzig | Encoding Chemical Intuition: The Challenge of Synthesizability Prediction | |
| 65 | Cristian | Velandia | TBI Wien | Read-level inference of tRNA structures from chemical probing data | |
| 67 | Nguyen Ngoc Vi | Tran | RTH Copenhagen | Peptide pesticides off-target binding prediction | |
| 68 | Lorenzo | Favaro | RTH Copenhagen | RIsearch3 for fast RNA-RNA interaction predictions | |
| 69 | Paulina | Sahul Holotova | TBI Wien | Can applying crosslinking data knowledge improve the RNA (secondary) structure prediction? | |
| 70 | Sebastian | Will | Ecole Polytechnique / IP Paris | News from RNA pseudoknot prediction | |
| 71 | Jan | Gorodkin | RTH Copenhagen | ||
| 72 | Hannah Sophie | Hartung | TBI Wien | Cotranscriptional simulator to analyze ALU element interactions | |
| 73 | Daniel | Wiegreffe | BSV Uni Leipzig | mdAnnotator - Visual Labeling of MD Simulations for Classification | |
| 74 | Charlotte | Steinke | FSU Jena | ||
| 75 | Yann | Ponty | CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique | Exact partial algorithms for inverse folding | |