11th International BSC Severo Ochoa Doctoral Symposium 2024

DAY 1 Presenters and Titles

KEYNOTE

• Mercè Crosas - New Horizons for HPC Applied to Social Sciences and Humanities

POSTER SESSION I

• Zahra Noori - Adjusting UV-Vis Spectrum of Alizarin by Insertion of Auxochromes
• Fatemeh Baghdadi - Computational Methods for the Integration of Multimodal Cardiovascular Data
• Giacomo Mutti - Detecting non-vertical inheritance across eukaryotes
• Sergi Palomas - Evaluating computational performance metrics in Climate modelling: Insights from CMIP6
• Maria Sopena Rios - Single-cell atlas of the aging immune system
• Marc Solé i Bonet - The METASAT Hardware Platform v1.1: Identifying the Challenges for its RISC-V CPU and GPU Update

TALK SESSION I - Human Health

• Guillermo Prol Castelo - A Benchmark of Synthetic Transcriptomic Cancer Data Reconstruction
• Sara Peregrina Cabredo - Implications of the human oral microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease prognosis
• Alejandro Navarro Martínez - Evaluating the Impact of Recurrent Mobility in Air Pollution Exposure in Catalonia

TALK SESSION II - Applications of Computational Methods

• Miriam Poley Gil - Exploring the biophysical boundaries of protein families with deep learning methods
• Roc Farriol-Duran - Design of a surface-accessible epitope panel using Brewpitopes to empower early lung cancer detection
• Lidia Neves - Big data and diversity: the specificities of analyzing discourses about refugees in Brazil
• Varbina Ivanova - Multiple-Copies Association Studies for Computational Binding Mode Elucidation of Fbw7 E3 Ligase Fragment Hits

POSTER SESSION II

• Jeremy Jens Giesen León - ASCOM: Affordable Sequence-aware COntention Modeling in Crossbar-based MPSoCs
• Ivan Vargas Valdivieso - Design and Analysis of a Processing-in-Memory Sort Algorithm using UPMEM
• Júlia Vilalta Mor - Generative Strategies for Multi-target Drug Design: Generating Mpro Pan-inhibitors
• Louis Ledoux - LLMMMM: Large Language Models Matrix-Matrix Multiplications Characterization on Open Silicon
• Iria Pose Lagoa - Machine Learning Approaches for the Characterization of COPD
• Hernán Domingo Ramos - MAXWEL: Simulation of EM wave propagation in plasma using FEM

TALK SESSION III - Simulations and Modelling

• Patricia Blanco Gabella - Development of Novel Non-Peptidic VHL Binders Using a Fragment-Based Approach
• Miguel Luengo - Designing a new generation of industrial proteases
• Fernando Vázquez - Methodologies for the Design and Development of Digital Twins

DAY 2

TALK SESSION IV - Genomics

• Alejandro Alonso Marín - BIMSA: Accelerating Long Sequence Alignment Using Processing-In-Memory
• Winona Oliveros - Inter-individual and Inter-tissue variation of DNA methylation
• Julian Pavon Rivera - QUETZAL: Vector Acceleration Framework for Modern Genome Sequence Analysis Algorithms
• Saioa Manzano-Morales - Reconstructing prokaryotic metabolic contributions to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor
• Moisès Bernabeu - Horizontal gene transfer help in the process of organellogenesis

POSTER SESSION III

• Júlia Orteu Aubach - A Framework and Methodology for Performance Prediction of HPC Workloads
• Carlos Rojas - Agile and accurate microarchitecture modeling using Python and Salabim
• Laura Ventura San Pedro - Deep-learning-enhanced transcriptomic and histopathology analysis of the role of aging in female tissues
• Ignasi Puch Giner - Drug Repurposing for Mammalian Heart Regeneration: The Inhibition Mechanism of Neomycin and Paromomycin on Meis1-Hoxb13-DNA Trimer
• Álvaro Redondo del Río - Hybridisation in Emerging Fungal Pathogens
• Pol Garcia Recasens - Towards Pareto Optimal Throughput in Small Language Model Serving

TALK SESSION V - Earth Science and Transcriptomics

• Alba Santos Espeso - Cooling Effect of Aerosols on Past Arctic Climate (1950-2014)
• Pep Cos - Atmospheric circulation leading to subtropical air intrussions in the Western Mediterranean
• Rubén Chazarra Gil - Alternative Splicing variability between human populations at single-cell resolution
• Pau Clavell Revelles - A pipeline to preprocess long reads Oxford Nanopore sequencing data to reveal the transcriptomic diversity of human populations

POSTER SESSION IV

• Victor Xirau Guardans - Active Compute Memory: Enhancing Memory and Processing in Near-Memory Architectures for Vector Classification
• Xavier Benedicto Molina - Analysing Metabolic Changes in a Gastric Adenocarcinoma Cell Line under Different Drug Treatments
• Lluís Frontera Perelló - Disentangling inter-individual transcriptome variability at single-cell and pseudobulk resolution
• Marko Ludaic - Emergence of Energetic Constraints over the Evolution of Protein Families
• Pau Manyer Fuertes - EQUILI module in ALYA: a free-boundary Grad-Shafranov equation solver using CutFEM
• Othmane Hayoun - An AGS cell line digital twin for studying novel treatment strategies

TALK SESSION VI - Computer Architecture and Performance

• Alejandro Cano Cos - Buffer architecture for Dragonfly topologies
• Josep Pocurull Serra - Performance analysis of an OpenFOAM HPC Grand Challenge using BSC performance tools
• Sergi Laut Turon - Architecture-aware Patterns for the Factorized Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioner
• Elias Perdomo - HBM performance on FPGAs