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<span style="background-color: white;">Dear all,</span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">registrations are now open for the 4th BioInference conference (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><a href="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" id="OWAccfd9e74-fcd1-20e5-c206-3fb47d4507a6" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://bioinference.github.io/2025/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">https://bioinference.github.io/2025/</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">),
which is taking place in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin, Italy, on the
<b>28th-30th May 2025</b>. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">Launched in 2022, BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics
and mathematical modelling who work with (broadly defined/intended) biological systems, to foster discussions and prompt collaborations between the two communities at all career stages.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">If you would like to attend the conference, please
<b><u>sign up by the 14th April </u></b>(tickets are limited and on a first come first served basis) at
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><a href="https://bioinference.github.io/registration/" id="OWA7be4cd01-4f89-538f-d6e0-8146b7db539b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://bioinference.github.io/registration/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://bioinference.github.io/registration/" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">https://bioinference.github.io/registration</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">Note that the registration is considered completed and successful only after having
paid the<b> €185 registration fee</b> (covering three lunches, all coffee breaks and one dinner) and the accommodation fee (which is highly recommended, but not mandatory).
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">May is the low season in Bardonecchia, so most of the hotels are closed. However, we secured single and double rooms in two partner hotels,
<a href="https://www.hotelrive.it/" id="OWA06cb8d2e-b7ba-a7e2-e380-c8f033ede900" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.hotelrive.it/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.hotelrive.it/" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
Hotel Rivè</a> and <a href="https://www.cafiore.it/" id="OWA8a9bc0f9-625f-548a-eda8-17c14fbc3a1b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.cafiore.it/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.cafiore.it/" data-linkindex="4" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
Hotel Cà Fiore</a>, 100m apart, to favour further networking among participants, at a discounted price of</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">108€ per night (with breakfast, single occupancy)</span></p>
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160€ per night (with breakfast, double occupancy).</div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">These rooms need to be booked at<b> the time of the registration</b>, paying the cost in advance, by specifying the
number of nights you need the booking for. If you wish to look for alternative accommodation (possible but not recommended), you can then select the option "Registration only" on the registration page, being aware of the low availability.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Please make sure to have your Italian “Codice Fiscale” (VAT number) or your passport number at the time of registration.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">The conference will consist of contributed talks and poster sessions, with more
than 20 talks and 30 poster presentations. The three day schedule and the full list of poster presentations can be found at
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><a href="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" id="OWA218cd5e3-519c-a3be-927d-573c3b8a8c70" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://bioinference.github.io/2025/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" data-linkindex="5" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">https://bioinference.github.io/2025/</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white;">,
while a</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> list of confirmed talks include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Jennifer Asimit</b> (University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Veronica Biancacci</b> (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Physics-Informed model-based reinforcement learning for pandemic mitigation</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Margherita Bruno</b> (CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay) - Inferring the acquisition age of JAK2-V617F mutation in MPN patients from phylogenetic data and an ABC-SMC model selection procedure</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Alberto Cassese </b>(University of Florence) - Bison - Bi-clustering of spatial omics data with feature selection</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Andrea Corbetta</b> (Human Technopole) - Genetics helps determine differences in response to statin treatment: analysis on short and long-term low-density lipoprotein cholesterol trajectories</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Diego di Bernardo</b> (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Andrew Golightly</b> (Durham University) - Accelerating Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using incidence data</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Henrik Häggström</b> (Chalmers University) - Simulation-based inference for stochastic nonlinear mixed-effects models with applications in systems biology</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Ferdinando Insalata</b> (Imperial College London) - Mutational signatures of deterministic and noise-induced evolutionary mechanisms</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Hetvi Jethwani</b> (Imperial College London) - The role of rare somatic mtDNA mutations in proliferative tissue aging</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Zhana Kuncheva</b> (Bioxcelerate AI) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Anastasia Mantziou </b>(University of Warwick) - Bayesian model-based clustering for populations of network data</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Antonietta Mira </b>(Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Yoav Ram</b> (Tel Aviv University) - Quantifying Cultural Evolution Using Population Genetic Methods</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Hélène Ruffieux</b> (University of Cambridge) - A Bayesian functional factor model for high-dimensional molecular curves</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Davide Risso</b> (University of Padova) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Jaromir Sant</b> (University of Turin) - Inference of genome-wide genealogical relationships between ancient and modern individuals</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Florian Schunck</b> (Osnabrück University) - Modeling the Bigger Picture: Hierarchical Approaches for Integrating Diverse Toxicological Data in Mechanistic Models</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Nicholas Steyn</b> (University of Oxford) - SMC methods for epidemic renewal models</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Ben Swallow</b> (University of St Andrew's) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Jonasz Słomka</b> (ETH Zurich) - TBC</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Simone Tiberi </b>(University of Bologna) - IsoBayes: a Bayesian approach for single-isoform proteomics inference</span></li></ul>
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<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">More information, e.g. travel funding for early career researchers, practical information on how to get to Bardonecchia,
etc. is available on the conference webpage <a href="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" id="OWA4ed4ab12-a9e4-f680-a137-b26dea813d1b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://bioinference.github.io/2025/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://bioinference.github.io/2025/" data-linkindex="6" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
https://bioinference.github.io/2025/</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> We are looking forward to seeing you at BioInference2025 in Bardonecchia.</span></p>
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Best,</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Massi on the behalf of the BioInference2025 Organisers</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reader (Associate Professor) and WIHEA Fellow<br>
Department of Statistics</span></div>
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University of Warwick<br>
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