
MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference

Friday, October 7, 2022
7th Annual MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
This Year the Conference is an In-Person Live Networking Event.
Computational Approaches
to Differentiation in Diseases
Friday October 7, 2022

New Location
CHOP Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
734 Schuylkill Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19146
The Roberts Center for Pediatric Research is located across the river from and within easy walking distance to the CHOP University City campus and the University of Pennsylvania. It serves as the hub for the Center for Autism Research, Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, and the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, among other research divisions at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
$5 Discount Parking is available for the surface lot on Schuylkill Ave.
Please select this option from the registration site. You will be able to pick up your discount parking pass at registration. Instructions on how to use it will be provided.
Presenters
Keynote Speakers

Director
Human Pangenome Production Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
Named as "One to Watch" in
Nature's 10, 2020

Department Vice Chair
Computational Medicine
Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
Human Genetics,
and Computational Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
Invited Speakers

Associate Professor
Epigenomics & Genomics
Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Associate Professor, Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine


Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Oncology, School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University


Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Professor
Director of Folding@home
Department of Bioengineering and Biochemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Poster Session

Poster Session
New! Extended
Poster Session
This year we will be holding a live poster session and have added extra time for you to share your work and network with colleagues.
Poster Lightning Round Session: Ten posters will be selected to present at the lightning round session during the conference.
Posters topics will address algorithm, software, database, and analysis of genetic or genomic data, including but not limited to following topics:
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Integrative Analyses of Biological Data on Multiple Scales
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Diagnostic Focus on Genetic and Genomic Data
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Machine Learning Methods Applied to 'omics' Data
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Structural Variants and Non-coding Variants
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Visualization and Visual Analytics of Biological and Health Data
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Epigenetics of Human Diseases
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Computational Systems Biology and Biological Network Modeling
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Epistasis of Genetic Variants
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Population and Comparative Genomics
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Single-cell Sequencing and Analyses
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Translational Bioinformatics
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Imputation of Genomic and Epigenomic Data
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Genome and Sequence Analysis
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Bioinformatics Methods Development
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Genotype-Phenotype Relationships
Submissions Are Now Closed
Decisions will be announced September 16, 2022.
Trainee Poster Awards
Students & Trainees are eligible for awards associated with submitting a Poster Abstract for the 2022 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference.
Trainee award winners will be featured in a special session during the conference on Friday October 7, 2022.
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.
For questions related to posters, contact Donna Vito
Organizers
Conference Chair

Dokyoon Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Senior Fellow,
Institute of Biomedical Informatics,
Associate Director of Informatics, Immune Health,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Conference Co-Chair

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
Ingo Helbig, MD
Conference Committee

Laura Almasy, PhD
Professor of Genetics,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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

Deanne Taylor, PhD

Yi Xing, PhD

Wanding Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of Bioinformatics Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
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
Poster Review Committee
In addition to the Conference Committee members listed above, we would like to thank these individuals who reviewed and scored poster abstracts for this year's poster session
Asif Chinwalla
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Noor Dawany
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mark Porter
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Anurag Verma
University of Pennsylvania
Danielle Mowery
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Daniel Romano
University of Pennsylvania
Shefali Setia Verma
University of Pennsylvania
Conference Operations
Donna Vito
Outreach Manager
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Hannah Bocchinfuso
Project Coordinator
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ariana Downs
Outreach Specialist
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tom Outland
Office Coordinator
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Conference at Capacity
Registration is Closed
Registration is Closed:
We have reached capacity for this conference. We had a huge early response, and we filled the lecture hall capacity ahead of schedule. There are no open spots.
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.