MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday, October 6, 2023
Agenda
Schedule is Eastern time zone.
Times are tentative, will confirm closer to conference date.
8:30am
Introduction by Conference Chair, Bo Li, PhD
Welcome
Yi Xing, PhD
Executive Director, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
8:45am- 9:30am
Keynote Speaker introduction by Yi Xing, PhD
Mona Singh, PhD
Professor
Computer Science
Lewis Sigler Institute for
Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
9:30am- 10:00am
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Jian Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics
University of Texas Southwestern
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10:00am- 10:15am
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Morning Break
10:15am- 10:45am
Mingyao Li, PhD
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
10:45am- 11:15am
Obi Griffith, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Department of Genetics
McDonnell Genome Institute
Washington University St. Louis
11:15am- 11:45am
Poster Lightning Round (3-minute Flash Presentations)
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Yonghyun Nam, University of Pennsylvania
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Carlos Castelan Angel, Columbia University
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Kyle Coleman, University of Pennsylvania
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Subramanian Krishnamurthy, Rutgers University
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Sora Yoon, University of Pennsylvania
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Da Wu,Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Annie Abioye, University of Pennsylvania
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Rashid Al-Abri, Columbia University
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Jingye Yang, University of Pennsylvania, CHOP
11:45am- 2:00pm
Break for Lunch
Poster Networking Session
Colket Translational Research Building
2:00pm- 2:45pm
Keynote Speaker introduction by Bo Li, PhD
Mark Gerstein PhD
Professor
Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry,
Computer Science, Statistics & Data Science
Yale University
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2:45pm - 3:15pm
Beth Cimini, PhD
Senior Group Leader
Cimini Lab
Broad Institute
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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3:15pm - 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
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3:30pm - 4:00pm
Li Shen, PhD
Professor
Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
4:00pm - 4:45pm
Keynote Speaker introduction by Marylyn Ritchie, PhD
David Baker, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry
Director, Institute for Protein Design
University of Washington
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4:45pm- 5:00pm
Closing Remarks and Presentation of Trainee Awards
Bo Li, PhD
Associate Professor
Computational Immunology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia