A Global Meeting for a Safer World 21 - 25 September 2020
Times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST) i.e., 15 CEST is equivalent to 6am California, 9am New York, 2pm London, 3pm Berlin, 6.30pm New Delhi, 10pm Tokyo.
Follow links below to see chair profiles, session descriptions, and poster/speaker abstracts.
21 September 2020
13.00 Session 1. Endocrine Disruption
- Chair: Suguna Sakkiah (FDA)
- Talk: Brijesh Singh, Central Role of Estrogen-related receptor alpha in hepatic metabolism, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and aging
- Poster: Selvaraj Chandrabose, Mechanism-Based Inactivation (MBI) of AKR1C3 through Quantum Mechanical Calculations and Structure-based Drug Design
- Poster: Bart van der Burg, An Estrogen, Androgen, Thyroid and Steroidogenesis (EATS) assay panel to predict endocrine disruption of chemicals and chemical mixtures
- Poster: Sandireddy Reddemma, Estrogen-related receptor alpha regulates ribosomal translation to sustain chronic lysosomal function during starvation
14.30 Session 2. Text Mining Applications in Toxicology
- Chair: Sucheendra Kumar Palaniappan (SBX)
- Talk: Nicolas K. Shinada, Advancements in text mining and deep learning to improve toxicity prediction
- Poster: Syed Ashif Jardary Al Ahmed, Taxila: An integrated knowledge hub for driving actionable insights in toxicology
15.30 Session 3. Bioinformatics
- Chair: Dario Greco (Tampere University)
- Talk: Vittorio Fortino (University of Eastern Finland): Omics-driven approaches in biomarker and drug target discovery
- Poster: Alisa Pavel, Integrated network analysis reveals new genes suggesting COVID-19 chronic effects and treatment
- Poster: Giusy del Giudice, COVID-19 and nanomaterial airway exposures - comparable consequences
16.30 COVID-19 Hackathon - Overview and Discussion of Goals and Cases
- Chair: Priyanka Banerjee (Charité) & Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect)
17.30 Session 4. Safety Biomarkers
- Chair: Kasper Renggli (PMI)
- Talk: Oksana Lavrynenko, Ceramide ratios are affected by cigarette smoke but not heat-not-burn or e-vapor aerosols across four independent mouse studies
- Poster: Laura Suter-Dick, Exosomal miR-122 as a sensitive marker for methotrexate and acetaminophen induced hepatocellular injury
- Poster: Núria Amigó, LMWMscale: A New Bioinformatics Tool for Low Molecular Weight Metabolites Quantification based on 1H-NMR spectroscopy for biomarker discovery
22 September 2020
13.00 Session 5. Cosmetics Assessment
- Chair: Hanan Osman-Ponchet (PKDERM)
- Talk: Andy Forreryd, Dose-response analysis in GARD for assessment of skin sensitizer potency
- Poster: Douglas C. Wu & Tzeira Sofer, Efficacy of a topical healing cream utilizing omaga-5 conjugated linolenic acid based formulation on skin inflammation: in vitro evaluation on 3D reconstructed human epidermis model
- Poster: Manon Barthe, Expression Level of ABC Transporters is Not Affected by Lipopolysaccharide-induced Inflammation in Normal Human Keratinocytes and In 3D Reconstructed Human Epidermis
14.30 Session 6. New Methods in Predictive Toxicology
- Chair: Danilo Basili (University of Cambridge)
- Talk: Bryant Chambers, Elucidating adaptive stress response pathway activity using transcriptomics
- Poster: Paula Braun - AUREA - automated DNA breaks assessment on the hepatocyte-like HepaRG cell line
- Poster: Surat Parvatam - Status of human-relevant research in India
16.00 Session 7. Natural Products
- Chair: Timea Polgar (NaturAI)
- Talk: Barry Hardy, The importance of Natural Products for enabling the Green Deal, Sustainable Economic Development and a Toxic-free Environment
- Poster: Felix Nwafor, Toxic Food Plants from West Tropical Africa
17.00 Session 8. Computational Toxicology
- Chair: Priyanka Banerjee (Charité)
- Talk: Antonio de la Vega de León, How much does missing data affect the performance of multitask machine learning algorithms?
- Talk: Danyel Jennen, Machine learning based meta-analysis using multiple toxicogenomics datasets does not improve genotoxicity prediction
- Poster: Svetoslav Slavov, Identification of structural features affecting binding to mu, kappa and delta opioid receptors
18.00 COVID-19 Hackathon - Overview and Discussion of Goals and Cases
- Chair: Priyanka Banerjee (Charité) & Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect)
19.00 COVID-19 Poster Session
- Chair: Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect)
- Talk: Alessandro Contini, Virtual screening for drug repurposing: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study
- Poster: Anshu Bhardwaj, SAVIOR - SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitor Open Repository
- Poster: Aaftaab Sethi, Role of Glycans and Related Ligands in Disruption of Entry Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 into host cell
- Poster: Adithya Acharya, Computational approach for the identification of potential drug library molecule against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) main protease
- Poster: Tim Dudgeon, Virtual screening of SARS-Cov-2 Main protease fragment screening hits
23 September 2020
13.00 Session 9. Organ-on-Chip testing
- Chair: Tommaso Serchi (LIST)
- Talk: Yvonne Kohl, Cell cultures in flow: approaches for in vivo-like safety screening
- Poster: Aline Chary, “Difficult-to-test” substances: comparison between digital dispensing and cloud exposure in context of respiratory sensitization
- Poster: Michelle Hesler, Do cellulose nanocrystals harm human lung cells?
- Poster: Yvonne Kohl, NanoCELL - Comprehensive characterization and human toxicological assessment of cellulose nanocrystals along its life cycle for reliable risk assessment and safe use in environmentally friendly packaging materials
- Poster: David Bovard, VitroFluid — Lung/liver-on-a-chip for systemic toxicity studies
14.30 Session 10. Claims of AI and Data Science for COVID 19
- Chair: Asish Mohapatra (Health Canada) and Suneeta Satpathy (Engineering Bhubaneswar)
- Talk: Nonita Sharma, Times Series Forecasting
- Talk: Sachinandan Mohanty, A Deep learning approach for prediction of COVID-19
- Talk: Monika Mangla, COVID 19: A Data Scientist Perspective
- Poster: Hardik Deshmukh, Study of covid-19's effect on NIFTY
- Poster: Sourabh Yadav, Plasma Donation Chain for treating COVID infected patients
- Poster: Jaiditya Dev, ARIMA Modelling for Time Series Disease Forecasting
16.00 Session 11. Kinetics and Exposure Modelling
- Chair: Marjory Moreau (Scitovation) and Salil Pendse (Nuventra Pharma Sciences)
- Talk: Risa Sayre, Database of pharmacokinetic time-series data and parameters for environmental chemicals
17.30 Session 12. Adverse Outcome Pathways
- Chair: Clemens Wittwehr (EC JRC)
- Talk: Annamaria Carusi, Building trust in chemicals regulation
- Talk: Penny Nymark, Systematic organization of COVID-19 data supported by the Adverse Outcome Pathway framework
- Poster: Travis Karschnik, AOP-Wiki updates and development
24 September 2020
13.00 Session 13. In Silico Modelling
- Chair: Hongbin Yang (University of Cambridge)
- Talk: Yaozong Li , Atomistic and thermodynamic analysis of the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) recognition by the reader YTHDC1 and the chemical probe development
- Poster: Balint Dudas, Mechanistic insights into the effect of structural dynamics of SULT 1A1 on substrate binding and selectivity
- Poster: Shobhita Saxena, Molecular Dynamics Simulation Comparison of BRAF Kinase protein mutants
14.30 Session 14. New Models in Toxicology
- Chair: Bas ter Braak (University of Leiden)
- Poster: Monika Sramkova, Renal advanced in vitro models for nephrotoxicity determination
- Poster: Johanna Nyffeler, Image-based high-throughput phenotypic profiling for hazard evaluation of environmental chemicals: Two applications
- Poster: Gourab Das, Identification of Potential Key Genes Associated with Strokes and its sub types: A Computational Approach
- Poster: Philip Doganis, SABYDOMA Project: Introducing Feedback Control to Safety by Design of Nanomaterials
16.00 Session 15. New algorithms and methods
- Chair: Svetoslav Slavov (FDA)
- Talk: Svetoslav Slavov, 3D-SDAR – a new, grid-based, alignment independent, three-dimensional modeling approach. An overview and future perspectives
- Poster: Joyce Borba, STopTox: An in-silico platform as an alternative to animal testing for acute Systemic and Topical Toxicity
- Poster: Denis Habauzit, In silico combined approaches for toxicity evaluation of mycotoxins: a preliminary study with the enniatin cluster
- Poster: Angel Chen, Use of CEBSR API for Accessing NTP Data Collections
17.30 Session 16. Integrated in silico and in vitro approaches to safety assessment
- Chair: Tomaz Mohoric (Edelweiss Connect)
- Talk: Pranika Singh, IPSC-derived proximal tubular cells-based transcriptomics data to elucidate Cadmium-induced temporal alterations
- Poster: Hyun Kil Shin, ToxSTAR: drug-induced liver injury prediction via integration of in vitro assays, in vivo and in silico models
- Poster: Anze Zupanic, Developing putative AOP from causal network for evaluating chemical toxicity in zebrafish
19.00 COVID-19 Poster Session
- Chair: Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect)
- Poster: Hasmik Yepiskoposyan, Causal biological network model scoring for interpretation of transcriptomic changes in response to COVID-19
- Poster: Parth Agarwal, A bidirectional alliance of COVID-19 and diabetes mellitus
- Poster: Cleber C. Melo-Filho, QSAR Modeling of SARS-CoV Mpro Inhibitors Identifies Drugs as Candidates for Repurposing against SARS-CoV-2
25 September 2020
13.00 Session 17. Mechanistic Investigations
- Chair: Aziz Eftekhari (Maragheh University of Medical Sciences) and Pramodkumar Gupta (D Y Patil University)
- Talk: Mathieu Vinken, Development, quantification and application of an adverse outcome pathway network of cholestatic liver injury
- Poster: Elham Ahmadian, Curcumin-loaded hayaluronic acid nanohydrogels as promising scaffolds for odontogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells
- Poster: Sepide Zununi, Cellular and molecular mechanism actions of steroids on kidney cells
- Poster: Ameer Khusro, In silico modelling and docking insight of bacterial peptide as anti-tubercular and anticancer agents
14.00 Session 18. Risk assessment
- Chair: Michael Dourson (TERA)
- Talk: Michael Dourson, A Commentary on Some Epidemiology Data for Chlorpyrifos
- Talk: Thorhallur Halldorsson, The European Food Safety Authority Opinion of PFAS 2020: A brief summary of a long journey
- Poster: Michael Dourson, Data Derived Extrapolation Factors for Developmental Toxicity: A Preliminary Research Case Study with Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA)
15.00 Session 19. Machine learning and AI
- Chair: Wojtek Plonka
- Talk: Wojtek Plonka, Effects of hyperparameters on the performance of Random Forest Models - a case study
- Talk: Marina Garcia de Lomana, In Silico Models to Predict the Disturbance of Thyroid Hormone Homeostasis by Small Molecules
- Poster: Saswati Chatterjee, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
16.00 Careers Discussion Panel
- Panel: Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect), Hanan Osman-Ponchet (PKDERM), Paul Jennings (Free University of Amsterdam), Ashwani Sharma (Senzagen)
17.00 Hackathon Presentations
17.30 Poster Awards
