MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday October 30, 2026
Agenda
Schedule is Eastern time zone.
Times are tentative, will confirm closer to conference date.
8:30am
Introduction by Conference Chair
Anurag Verma, PhD
Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
Associate Director, Clinical Informatics
and Genomics for Penn Medicine BioBank
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
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
8:45am- 9:30am
Christina Leslie, PhD
Professor
Computational and Systems Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
9:30am- 10:00am
Ruli Gao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
10:00am- 10:15am
Morning Break
10:15am- 10:45am
Paul Geeleher, PhD
Associate Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
10:45am- 11:15am
Wenpin Hou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Division of Integrative Genomics
Duke University
11:15am- 11:45am
Poster Lightning Round (3-minute Flash Presentations)
2:00pm- 2:45pm
Keynote Speaker
Christopher Burge PhD
CSB Program Director; Uncas (1923) and Helen Whitaker Professor
Extramural Member of KIICR;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Member of the Broad Institute
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Mitchell Machiela, ScD, MPH
Senior Investigator
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch
National Institutes of Health
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Niamnh Mullins, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatric Genomics
Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
4:00pm - 4:30pm
JangKeun Kim, PhD
Research Associate
Computational Biology
Director, Spaceflight Research/Mason Lab
Weill Cornell Medical College
Staff Scientist; Fellowship Mentor
Bioastra
4:30pm- 4:45pm
Closing Remarks and Presentation of Trainee Awards
Anurag Verma, PhD
Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
Associate Director, Clinical Informatics
and Genomics for Penn Medicine BioBank
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine