BIOPIM Workshop
6-7 October 2026, Bilkent University, Ankara
A two day workshop on leveraging Processing in Memory (PIM) techniques to accelerate genomic applications, held in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. The workshop is open to the public. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend and listen to talks from BioPIM partners and invited speakers from different institutions.
Location: Mithat Çoruh Auditorium, EB Building
Register for free using the form here: https://forms.gle/YHYkxNvGa1oxKXCW7
This event will be broadcast live on the BioPIM YouTube channel.
Day 1: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLeuKD_CQUU.
| Time | Session | Details/Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome Address | Can Alkan |
| 09:05 - 10:00 | Partner Talk | Bilkent University: Can Alkan The BioPIM Project: Aims, Progress, Results |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Short Talk | Alejandro Marin (BSC) Genome database sequence search using near-memory processing |
| 10:30-11:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Invited Talk | Victoria Popic (Broad Institute) The Deep Learning SV Discovery Stack: Data Representations, Models, and Acceleration Opportunities |
| 12:00-13:30 — Lunch Break (on your own) | ||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Partner Talk | Institut Pasteur: Yoshihiro Shibuya Rethinking Bioinformatics at Scale: Exploring Processing Near Memory with UPMEM |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Santiago Marco Sola (BSC) Scale and Complexity: Co-Designing Algorithms and Architectures for Emerging Challenges in Computational Biology |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Invited Talk | Iman Hajirasouliha (Weill Cornell Medicine) A Modular Metagenomics Analysis Pipeline with Application to MetaSUB and Microbiome-in-a-bottle |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Short Talk | Arda Söylev (Necmettin Erbakan University) Large-scale pangenomics in the post-linear era |
Day 2: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWSyY-uwXS4.
| Time | Session | Details/Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Partner Talk | IBM: İrem Boybat In-Memory Computing for Efficient AI: From Edge Inference to Large-Scale Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Short Talk | Orhun Görkem (IBM) In-Memory Computing for Efficient AI: From Edge Inference to Large-Scale Systems – Part 2 |
| 10:30-11:00 — Coffee Break | 11:00 - 12:00 | Partner Talk | CNRS: Dominique Lavenier Implementation of genomic algorithms on UPMEM architectures |
| 12:00-13:30 — Lunch Break (on your own) | ||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Invited Talk | Christina Giannnoula (Max Planck Institute) Towards a Programmable Data-Centric AI Stack for Processing-In-Memory Architectures |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Geraldo Francisco de Oliveira Junior (Huawei) Characterizing and Accelerating Memory-Intensive Workloads via Memory-Centric Architectures |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Short Talk | Nika Mansouri Ghiasi (ETH Zurich) Storage-Centric System Designs for Enabling Fast, Efficient, and Low-Cost Genomic and Metagenomic Analysis |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Partner Talk (online) | ETH Zurich: Onur Mutlu Accelerating Genome Analysis via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design |