
MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference

Friday, October 6, 2023
8th Annual MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday October 6, 2023

Smilow Center for Translational Research
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Thanks to everyone who attended this year's conference.
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.
Poster Reviewers
Posters were reviewed and scored by members of the Conference Organizing Committee and the individuals listed below.
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
Trainee Poster Awards
Students & Trainees are eligible for awards for the 2023 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference.
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 Hayeck, 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

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.