Laboratorio Data and Computational Biology
Laboratorio Data and Computational Biology
The Milan Meeting on Next Generation Sequencing and Biomedical Informatics (MMNGS 2026) is an informal, day-long forum to discuss experiences, research lines and projects regarding the generation and analysis of biomedical data, both from the wet- and the dry-lab perspectives.
The meeting is in its 8th edition, following those held in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
The 2026 edition will mainly focus (being not limited) on the advancements of Biomedical AI and Health Data Science.
Participation is FREE as well as coffee.
Participants are asked only to provide contact information.
Registration at this LINK.
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 09:00 | Welcome by Marco Antoniotti (co-chair) | Dept. of Informatics, Systems and Communication, B4 Bicocca Bioinformatics Biostatistics and Bioimaging Centre, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | |
| 09:10 | Martin Schaefer | European Institute of Oncology IEO | Decoding function and selection of DNA methylation in late stage tumor evolution |
| 09:30 | Lara Paracchini | Humanitas Research Hospital | Liquid biopsy in clinical practice: achievements, advances, future perspectives |
| 09:50 | Marco Masseroli | Politecnico di Milano | Prior knowledge enhanced feature selection for improved biological interpretability in gene expression data analysis |
| 10:10 | Federico di Marco | San Raffaele Research Hospital, DCB lab, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | PatHoST: A weakly supervised learning framework to leverage pathogen in spatial transcriptomics |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:45 | Luca Azzolin | Human Technopole | Epigenetic evolution in colorectal cancer and the normal adjacent gut |
| 11:05 | Maria Ilaria Curci | CNR-ITB Istituto Nazionale di Tecnologie Biomediche | Improving genetic risk stratification for Alzheimer’s disease with gradient boosting-based machine learning |
| 11:25 | Bruno Galuzzi | CNR-IBSBC Istituto di Bioimmagini e Sistemi Biologici Complessi | A Computational Tool for microRNA–Target Interaction Analysis |
| 11:45 | Davide Chicco | Dept. of Informatics, Systems and Communication, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | The advantages of our proposed Saturn coefficient over continuity and trustworthiness for UMAP dimensionality reduction evaluation |
| 12:05 | Charlotte Ng | Humanitas Research Hospital | Molecular pathogenesis of liver cancer: lessons from multiomics profiling |
| 12:40 | Ivan Civettini | EvoClin | From NGS to Decisions: Computational Pipelines for Clinical Oncology |
| 13:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:20 | Chiara Damiani | Dept. Biotechnology and Biosciences, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca |
Microbi Chef: Can We Put Cancer on a Diet? A crowdfunding project by the University of Milan-Bicocca |
| 14:35 | Giovanni Cazzaniga | Tettamanti Center, IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori/School of Medicine & Surgery, Univ of Milano-Bicocca | Comprehensive NGS profiling for precision medicine in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
| 14:55 | Simone Ciccolella | Dept. of Informatics, Systems and Communication, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca |
Differential analysis of alternative splicing events in gene regions using residual neural networks
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| 15:15 | Toni Giorgino | CNR-IBF Istituto di Biofisica | Collective Motions in Molecular Dynamics: A Dimensionality and Data-Driven Perspective |
| 15:35 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:50 | Davide Bernasconi | School of Medicine and Surgery, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | Survival without vs after transition to the intermediate event in a non-markovian “illness-death” model: application to heart transplant data |
| 16:10 | Paola Rebora | School of Medicine and Surgery, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | Designing efficient two-phase studies: optimal estimation of biomarker prognostic value under competing risks |
| 16:30 | Laura Mannarino | Humanitas Research Hospital | One biopsy, endless insights: the power of liquid biopsy for cancer detection and monitoring |
| 16:50 | Pietro Delfino | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Research Hospital | A biology-driven evaluation of cell segmentation in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics |
| 17:10 | Silvia Spinelli | School of Medicine and Surgery, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | Azacytidine reprograms hematopoietic stem cell fate in clonal myeloid disorders |
| 17:30 | Daniele Papetti | Dept. of Informatics, Systems and Communication, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca | Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: challenges and opportunities |
| 17:50 | Ending remarks by the organizing committee | ||
For info please contact: davide.chicco@unimib.it and chiara.damiani@unimib.it
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September 2–4, 2026 (Wed–Fri) at Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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