CZECH
PHD BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE

23-24 April, 2026, Hotel Prachárna, Olomouc

About The Event

The conference aims to provide a platform for Ph.D. students in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, or computational biology at Czech institutions to present their research and ideas to peers and invited guests. It seeks to bring together students from across the Czech Republic, fostering an opportunity to share experiences and learn from one another in this relatively new interdisciplinary fields.

Each participating student is required to submit an abstract of their work or, for first-year Ph.D. students, a research plan. The organizing committee will select abstracts for oral presentations, while the remaining submissions will be presented as posters. Due to the limited capacity, participants may be selected based on the quality of their abstracts.

The conference will span two days, featuring one invited speaker and a number of student presentations each day. On the evening of the first day, there will be a poster session. Two distinguished scientists will be present throughout the conference to provide feedback and engage in discussions with the students.

Where

Hotel Prachárna, Olomouc

When

Thursday to Friday
23-24 April 2026


Registration deadline
20 March 2026

Invited Speakers

Abdullah Kahraman

School of Life Sciences, FHNW, Switzerland

Monika Čechová

FI MUNI, Czech Republic

Tenative Conference Schedule

Download book of abstracts

The conference will be spread into two days – each day there will be one invited speaker and a number of student presentations

This is a preliminary version of the schedule and is subject to change.

Registration

Lunch

Keynote - Abdullah Kahraman

Student talks

14:00-14:25 Terézia Slanináková (MUNI) AlphaFind v2: Fast Structure-Based Search in Predicted Protein Chains and Domains
14:25-14:50 Adrián Rošinec (MUNI) MDFind: Federated search for molecular dynamics data
14:50-15:15 Samuel Gorta (MUNI) Extending molecular dynamics simulations via latent space projection
15:15-15:40 Monika Rosinská (MUNI) EnzymeMiner 2.0: Pioneering the Next Wave of Enzyme Discovery

Coffee break

 

Student talks

16:10-16:35 Matouš Soldát (UOCHB) De novo generation of terpene synthases with desired catalytic activity
16:35-17:00 Filip Jozefov (UOCHB) From sample to structure before your coffee gets cold
17:00-17:25 Matěj Nemec (UK) FINNG: Out-of-Core Community Detection for Atlas-Scale Single-Cell Data Without Downsampling

Poster session (The posters willl be attached to wire holders that are 1x2m in dimensions)


Filip Kapral (VŠCHT) Atlas of amino acid roles in human proteins
Minoo Partovi Nasr (VUT) Cultured and uncultured metagenomic analysis of microbiome and resistome composition
Petra Polakovicova (IKEM) Integrative Multi-Omics approaches to Characterize Molecular Signatures of Long-Term Dietary Patterns
Nina Kadášová (UPOL) Mapping pathogenic patterns in membrane transporters from GLUT transporter family and Cytochrome P450 families
Radovan Tomášik (MUNI) Enabling Federated Data Quality Assessment with Differential Privacy
Dominik Martinát (UPOL) MolMeDB RDF: membrane transport information as linked data
David Pitr (VŠCHT) Machine Learning-Driven Design of a 2'-Fucosyllactose Binding Pocket: Diagnosing Oligomeric Blind Spots and Transitioning to Monomeric Scaffolds
Karen Pailozian (MUNI) TmProt 1.0: Tool for Protein Melting Temperature Prediction with Cross-Method Validation on Biophysical Data
Derrick Agwora (UK) Apo-holo pairs as a data framework for drug design
Sahra Setenay Baran (IBT AVČR) Data-driven validation of protein structures using solvent exposure and location-dependent flexibility
Jonáš Prokop (UK) State-of-the-art DNN models of primary visual cortex only partially predict results from classical V1 experiments
Petr Kabourek (MUNI) Protein Engineering Portal: Platform for in silico Protein Design and Analysis
Jindřich Lněnička (UPOL) Computational insights into concentration dependency of drug interactions in the bilayer systems
Jan Beránek (VŠCHT) Monte Carlo simulations of miniprotein folding sampled with an autoencoder
Defne Cig Kabakcioglu (IBT AVČR) Establishing a Spatial Transcriptomic Pipeline for Mapping the Human Ischemic Brain
Yusuf Caglar Odabasi (IBT AVČR) Regeneration-Initiating Cells (RICs) across species: Comparative transcriptomics analysis insights into wound Healing and regeneration
Jan Macháň (UPOL) PySPRESSO: A Python workflow framework for multi-batch LC–MS data analysis
Pavel Kohout (MUNI) MACHINE LEARNING FOR SCALABLE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND EVOLUTION-AWARE PROTEIN DESIGN
Kateřina Storchmannová (UPOL) Semi-Automated Integration and Validation of Membrane Protein–Small Molecule Interaction Data Using a KNIME-Based Workflow
Madeleine Alabdah (VUT) Multi-Modal Prediction of Breast Cancer Recurrence Using Clinical and Radiomic Features from DCE MRI
Jakub Juračka (UPOL) MolMeDB - Molecules on Membranes Database
Lucie Bulantová (MUNI) Comprehensive Genomic and Epigenomic Analysis Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing: A Multi-Project Approach in a Core Facility Setting
Tomáš Kašpar (UK) Addressing hidden pitfalls of Nanopore direct RNA sequencing for biologically relevant epitranscriptomic profiling
Samuel Fanči (UK) Phosphorylation Site Prediction Using Protein Language Models
Karolína Plánková (UPOL) Co-folding based prediction of ligand interaction sites in cytochromes p450
Christophe Mouallem (VUT) Genome-Guided Optimization of Thermophilic Cultivation Using an Open-Source Bioreactor Platform for Caldimonas thermodepolymerans
Anna Molíková (MUNI) Multi-Omics Integration and Multimodal Data Representation for AI-Assisted Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment – Research plan

Dinner

 

Keynote - Monika Čechová

 

Student talks

10:00-10:25 Martin Havlásek (MUNI) AggreProt: a web server for predicting and engineering aggregation prone regions in proteins
10:25-10:50 Tomáš Pavlík (MUNI) Molecular Dynamics BioID: Unlocking the Dark Matter of Simulations through Automated Molecular Annotation

Coffee break

 

Student talks

11:15-11:40 Guzel Minibaeva (UPOL) EasyDock 1.0: customizable and scalable docking tool
11:40-12:05 Vaishali Pankaj (VUT) An integrated computational strategy to identify selective HDAC6 inhibitors against breast cancer
12:05-12:30 Inderjeet Bhogal (VUT) Probing the interactions between Ipragliflozin with RAGE for treating Alzheimer’s disease: An in silico drug repurposing approach

Closing remarks

 

Lunch

 

Conference Venue

Prachárna Park Hotel Olomouc

Accommodation

Accommodation for one night during conference is booked at the Prachárna Park Hotel, Olomouc and the price will be covered by organizers. Note however, that the the organizers reserve the right to distribute the participants into the rooms. Participants will be informed which room they stay once they arrive to the hotel.


Prachárna Park Hotel
Křelovská 91,
Olomouc

Registration

The event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory for both students and advisors/senior guests. Due to the limited capacity, participants may be selected based on the quality of their abstracts.
Registration deadline: March 20, 2026.
Confirmation of acceptance: March 27, 2026.

Fill the registration form

  • Students are required to submit an abstract during the registration. Please use the provided template.

Sponsors

A big thank you to our sponsors for their support in making this PhD conference possible. Their contributions help create an opportunity for students and researchers to come together and share ideas. We truly appreciate their involvement.

Contact

If you have any questions, feel free to email us.

Email Us

bioinformatika@matfyz.cuni.cz