
MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference

Monday, November 8, 2021
Agenda
Schedule is Eastern time zone.
8:30am- 8:45am
Welcome
Yi Xing, PhD
Executive Director, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Introduction by Conference Chair Ingo Helbig, MD
8:45am- 9:30am
Keynote Speaker introduction by Ingo Helbig, MD
Andre Franke, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
University of Kiel
Genetic Risk and Protection in COVID-19 Disease
9:45am- 10:15am
Stephanie Hicks, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scalable Statistic Methods and Software for Single-Cell Data Science
10:30am- 11:00am
Heng Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly of Long Accurate Reads
11:15am- 11:45am
Iain Mathieson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Why Do Polygenic Risk Scores Not Transfer Across Ancestries?
11:45am- 1:00pm
Break for Lunch
1:00pm- 1:45pm
Keynote Speaker introduction by Yi Xing, PhD
Xihong Lin, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University
Scalable Analysis of Biobanks and Multi-Ethnic Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis Studies.
2:00pm- 2:30pm
Melissa Haendel, PhD
Chief Research Informatics Officer
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School
Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H)
Making Phenomics a First Class Computational Act
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Jingyi (Jessica) Li, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics
Department of Human Genetics
Department of Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Statistical Rigor in Genomics Data Analysis
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Ryan Urbanowicz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Informatics
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Automated Machine Learning Analysis Pipeline for Biomedical Data Mining
4:00pm
Closing Remarks
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