MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday, October 7, 2022
Agenda
Schedule is Eastern time zone.
8:30am
Introduction by Conference Chair Dokyoon Kim, PhD
Welcome
Yi Xing, PhD
Executive Director, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
&
Marylyn Ritchie, PhD
Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
8:45am- 9:30am
Keynote Speaker introduction by Marylyn Ritchie, PhD
Karen Miga, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCSC
Associate Director at the UCSC Genomics Institute
Discovering New Biology and Function in Complete, Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Genomes
9:30am- 10:00am
Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Oncology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Polygenic Risk Scores: Turning Dust into Gold?
10:00am- 10:15am
Morning Break
10:15am- 10:45am
Gina Peloso, PhD
Associate Professor
Biostatistics
Boston University
Implicating Genes, Pleiotropy, and Sexual Dimorphism at Blood Lipid Loci
10:45am- 11:15am
Greg Bowman, PhD
Professor
Director of Folding@home
Department of Bioengineering and Biochemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Searching the Genome for Cryptic Pockets
11:15am- 11:45am
Poster Lightning Round
Presentations of 7 selected posters
Sammy Hansali, Rutgers University
Hongbo Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Karleena Rybacki, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jason Liu, Rutgers University
Alison Merikangas, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jacob Leiby, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Guo, University of Pennsylvania
11:45am- 1:45pm
Break for Lunch
Poster Networking Session
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research Lobby
Posters will be on display in the main lobby and in the Level B lobby.
1:45pm- 2:30pm
Keynote Speaker introduction by Yi Xing, PhD
Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD
Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Polygenic Risk Scores for Individuals of Diverse Ancestries
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Iuliana Ionita-Laza, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Knockoff-based Statistics for the Identification of Putative Causal Loci in Genetic Studies
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Corey McMillan, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Molecular Profiling of Alzheimer’s Disease and Age-Related Neuorpathology
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Duygu Ucar, PhD
Associate Professor
Epigenomics & Genomics
Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
An Activated Ammune Micro-environment Prior to Vaccination Impedes the Efficacy of the Prevnar Vaccine
4:15pm- 4:30pm
Closing Remarks and Presentation of Trainee Awards
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