Introduction by Conference Chair, Derek Oldridge MD, PhD

Welcome

Yi Xing, PhD

Associate Chief Scientific Officer for Omics, Technology & Engineering

Executive Director, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Director, Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Keynote Speaker introduction by Derek Oldridge, MD, PhD

Faisal Mahmood, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology

Harvard Medical School

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Division of Computational Pathology

David Van Valen, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology and Bioengineering

Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Caltech

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Morning Break

Tamar Sofer, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Professor of Medicine

Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess

Harvard Medical School

Aaron McKenna, PhD

Assistant Professor

Molecular and Systems Biology

Geisel School of Medicine

Dartmouth College

Poster Lightning Round (3-minute Flash Presentations)​

1       Lindsay Guare           University of Pennsylvania                          

Beyond PRS: Geno2Vec Learns Rich SNP Embeddings to Predict Endometriosis Risk

2      Haedong Kim, PhD         Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Exome-Wide Copy Number Variation in 142,357 Individuals from Autism Spectrum Families in the Simons SPARK Cohort

3      Fahimeh Palizban, PhD         Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Investigating pediatric cancer through deep learning-enabled genomics and phenomics

4      Stephanie Mohammed, PhD          University of Pennsylvania

From Phenome to Casuality: A Multilayered Analysis of Age at Natural Menopause and its Health-Related Consequences

5       Simon Chu, PhD The Wistar Institute

Contribution of de novo retroelements to birth defects and childhood cancers in 3244 trios

6       Karleena Rybacki, MS    University of Pennsylvania                                    

Long-Read Whole-Transcriptome Sequencing Uncovers Gene Fusions and Structural Rearrangements in Fusion Panel-Negative Gliomas

7        Krystal Kuang    Rutgers University                                                       

Understanding the role of LINE-1 expression in Hematopoietic Stem Cell development using targeted long-read RNA sequencing

8       Christopher Sottolano, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Revealing the hidden landscape of selection: detecting divergent, soft, and background signatures in diverse human genomes

9        Yuheng Du, MS         University of Michigan                                             

Cell-Type-Resolved Placental Epigenomics Identifies Clinically Distinct Subtypes of Preeclampsia

10      Lannawill Caruth   Perelman School of Medicine                            

Training Breast Cancer Genetic Association Models using biobank scale data for effective risk prediction.

Break for Lunch

Poster Networking Session

Colket Translational Research Building

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Keynote Speaker introduction by Yi Xing, PhD

Molly Przeworski, PhD

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Department of Systems Biology

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Program for Mathematical Genomics

Columbia University

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Ernest Turro, PhD

Associate Professor

Genetics

Icahn School of Medicine

Mt. Sinai​​​

Afternoon Break

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Fei Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor

Materials and Biochemistry

Rutgers University

Zhi Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Closing Remarks and Presentation of Trainee Awards

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