MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday, October 6, 2023
8th Annual MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday October 6, 2023
Note the New Location
Smilow Center for Translational Research
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please allow for extra travel time due to traffic congestion caused by multiple construction projects around CHOP and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Registration for the Live In-Person Event is Closed
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General Registration: Registration is at capacity.
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Student/Trainees: Registration is at capacity.
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Discounted Parking: Due to extensive construction activity at both CHOP and Penn, we recommend taking public transportation if you are able.
A limited number of discounted parking spots are still available for $10.
Please purchase discount parking prior to Wednesday September 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM. You will not able to purchase discount parking onsite at the conference.
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Still Available
Remote Attendance - Speaker Sessions Only: $30.
(A user-specific link will be provided the day before the conference date.)
Please note: Remote attendees will not be able to attend the live Poster Session.
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Presenters
Keynote Speakers
Professor
Computer Science
Lewis Sigler Institute for
Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, of Computer Science, and of Statistics & Data Science
Yale University
Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry
Director, Institute for Protein Design
University of Washington
Invited Speakers
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Department of Genetics
McDonnell Genome Institute
Washington University St. Louis
Professor of Biostatistics
Chair, Graduate Program in Biostatistics
Member, Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology
Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics
Lupe Murchison Foundation Scholar in Medical Research
University of Texas Southwestern
Senior Group Leader
Cimini Lab
Broad Institute
Professor
Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Poster Session
Poster Session
The 2023 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference features today’s leaders in the field of bioinformatics. This year, we are excited to highlight speakers whose work addresses advances in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in bioinformatics. However, this is not the sole area of focus for this conference.
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Poster Session Location:
The Poster Session will be held in the lobby of the
Colket Translational Reseach Building
3501 Civic Center Blvd. Philadelphia, PA 19104.
This is a short walking distance from the lecture hall in Smilow.
Directions will be provided.
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Poster Lightning Round Session:
In addition to the poster session, selected posters will present short talks at the lightning round session during the conference.
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You must be able to attend the live poster session on Friday October 6, 2023 in order to participate in the poster session. There is no remote option.
Poster Reviewers
Posters were reviewed and scored by members of the Conference Organizing Committee and the individuals listed below.
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Sharon Diskin, PhD
Joseph Daniel Romano, PhD, MPhil, MA
Mark Porter, MS
Michael Xie, PhD
Noor Dawany, PhD
Asif Chinwalla, MS, MBA
Ana Cristancho, MD, PhD
Iain Mathieson, PhD
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Trainee Poster Awards
Students & Trainees are eligible for awards for the 2023 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference.
Trainee award winners will be featured in a special session during the conference on Friday October 6, 2023.
Three (3) awards of $250 will be presented. To be eligible for Student & Trainee Abstract Awards, the recipient must be the primary author of the Abstract. Awards will be presented at the close of the conference day.
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For questions related to posters, contact Donna Vito
Organizers
Conference Chair
Associate Professor
Computational Immunology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bo Li, PhD
Conference Co-Chair
Dokyoon Kim, PhD
Associate Professor of Informatics
Institute of Biomedical Informatics,
Associate Director of Informatics, Immune Health,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Conference Committee
Laura Almasy, PhD
Professor of Genetics,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Deanne Taylor, PhD
Director of Bioinformatics Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Associate Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Derek Oldridge, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Director
Immunogenetics Laboratory
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Conference Operations
Kai Wang, PhD
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kai Tan, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Center for Single Cell Biology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ingo Helbig, MD
Director of Genomics Science
Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN)
Division of Neurology and CHOP Neuroscience Center
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Wanding Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Tristan Hayek, PhD
Yi Xing, PhD
Executive Director
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Francis West Lewis Endowed Chair
Founding Director
Center for Computational
and Genomic Medicine
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Donna Vito - Outreach Manager
Ariana Downs - Outreach Specialist
Hannah Bocchinfuso - Project Coordinator
Tom Outland - Office Coordinator
Register for Remote
Attendance and Discount
Parking Below.
Presented annually by the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI), the MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference brings together recognized leaders in bioinformatics as well as emerging voices in the field. Conference attendance has grown significantly with each successive year bringing in researchers from around the world.