Program
Every talk, workshop and break, in order.
13th RSG-Türkiye Student Symposium Completed
10-11 October 2026📍 METU U3 Amphitheatre, Ankara
Event language: English
Day 1 · Saturday, 10 October
Registration & Welcome
Opening Remarks
Invited Talk
Session 1: Recent Advances in Immunoinformatics and mRNA Therapeutics
Coffee & Tea Break / Poster Viewing
Understanding the Tumour Microenvironment through Transcriptomic Data, and the Functions of Non-coding RNAs in Cancer
Session 1: Recent Advances in Immunoinformatics and mRNA Therapeutics
Coffee & Tea Break / Poster Viewing
Invited Talk
Session 1: Recent Advances in Immunoinformatics and mRNA Therapeutics
Lunch & Networking
Careers in Bioinformatics across Academia, Industry and Entrepreneurship
Special Session: Careers in Bioinformatics Panel / Conversation
Invited Talk
Session 2: Computational Biology: Biostatistics, Omics Data Analysis and Therapeutic Design
Coffee & Tea Break / Poster Viewing
Measuring Ageing Across Scales
Session 2: Computational Biology: Biostatistics, Omics Data Analysis and Therapeutic Design
Coffee & Tea Break / Poster Viewing
Shiny Applications for Bioinformatics
Session 2: Computational Biology: Biostatistics, Omics Data Analysis and Therapeutic Design
Closing, Best Oral/Poster Presentation Awards & Group Photo
Day 2 · Sunday, 11 October
Hands-on Workshop (Part I): Tumour Immune Transcriptomics with TCGEx
Workshop: Tumour Immune Transcriptomics and Cohort Analyses: Exploratory Analyses, Subtype Expression Profiles and Dimensionality Reduction (PCA & Clustering)
Coffee & Tea Break
Hands-on Workshop (Part II): Survival and Biomarker Modelling
Survival Modelling (Kaplan-Meier & Cox), Functional Enrichment (GSEA) and Biomarker Modelling with Machine Learning (Lasso/Ridge/Elastic-Net) + Q&A
This is the programme as it was held.