Poster Listing by Number

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.

11       Laura Davis, MBChB          Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia               

Proteomic Characterization of Porcine Brain Parenchyma in Acute and Sustained Models of Hydrocephalus

12       Hongxiang Fu               Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

KnowYourCG: Enabling CpG-centric Interpretation of Sparse DNA Methylomes

13        Aashi Dixit                  Catlin GabelSchool                                                  

Single Cell Analysis based Identification of Unique Markers and Metastasis Mechanism in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

14       Aditya Shah                    Yale School of Medicine                                         

Tumor subtype and clinical factors mediate the impact of tumor PPARɣ expression on outcomes in patients with primary breast cancer

15        Jiayi Xin            University of Pennsylvania                                    

Interpretable Multimodal Interaction-aware Mixture-of-Experts

16       Alexandra Manchel, PhD  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Gene expression patterns of the developing human face at single cell resolution reveal cell type contributions to normal facial variation and disease risk

17        Laura Schultz, PhD         Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

A robust machine learning approach for genotyping the 17q21.31 inversion polymorphism across diverse ancestral populations

18       Yunjun Kang                University of Pennsylvania                                    

A Patient Data-driven Graph Approach to Understand Genetic Drivers of Disease

19       Quan Nguyen              University of Pennsylvania                                    

PhenoGPT2: A Multimodal Fine-tuned Large Language Models for Phenotype Extraction and Normalization from Clinical Text and Facial Images

20     Milad Imeni Markhal   University of Delaware                                            

Beyond Covariance: Utilizing Spatial Transcriptomics to Reveal Local Gene Expression and Co-Expression Patterns in a Preclinical Model of TMJ Dysfunction

21      T M Rubaith Bashar      New Jersey Institute of Technology                

Relationship Classification in SNOMED CT Using Domain-Specific BERT Models

22   Akshaya Selvarajan, MTech Rutgers University       

THE IMPACT OF CELL-FREE DNA FRAGMENTATION AND BASE-CALLING ON LIQUID BIOPSY SENSITIVITY

23     Harman Sabharwal      Langley High School/UVA                                      

Integrative Visual Analytics of Sociodemographic and Financial Literacy Data to Identify High-Risk Veteran Populations

24     Avantika Diwadkar, MS   Pennsylvania State University                            

Genetic variants regulating immune cell-cell interactions are key drivers for autoimmune disease risk

25     Sam Barnett Dubensky       Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Multimodal analysis resolves GNG4 as a distinguishing feature of activated germinal center-resident Tfh in humans

26    Aditya Lahiri, PhD               Children's Hospital of Philadelphia              

Towards a Unified Pediatric Cancer Resource: Integrating Clinical Trials, Molecular Targets, and Therapeutic Databases

27     Luisa Quezada Ziesse           Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey      

MarginDetect reveals distinct clonal dynamics and its interactions within the microenvironment near the tumor margins in rare subtypes of Bladder Cancer

28     Ene Belleh, MBA,MLIS     Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Promoting Data Sharing and Compliance for Biomedical Data: Introducing the CHOP Dataverse

29     Jiazhen Rong,MS         University of Pennsylvania                                    

Mitochondrial clone tracing within spatially intact human tissues  

30    Yizhou Wang            University of Pennsylvania

Billion-level TCR clustering analysis with GIANAplus

31     Nicholas Paradis,MS Rowan University                 

A Closed-Form Estimator of Selection Strength from Substitution-Mutation Ratios: Theory and a SARS-CoV-2 Case Study

32    Kelsey Keith, MS         Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Broad immunophenotyping panel with supervised immune cell classification reveals age-dependent differences between mitochondrial disease subjects and healthy controls

33    Sangeeta Shukla, PhD          Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Neonatal Neonatal Microglia Replacement: Monocyte-Derived Cells Rescue Seizure Phenotypes While Embryonic Microglia Exacerbate Them

34    Brydon Wall, MS             Virginia Commonwealth University                

Ancestry-Specific Pangenome Graphs Enable the Study of Population-Specific Genomic Variation and Structural Complexity

35    Brydon Wall, MS              Virginia Commonwealth University                

Genetic Ancestry Inference in PDX Models: Benchmarking WGS and RNA-seq Approaches

36   Miranda Brown            Virginia Commonwealth University                

Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Localized Host Responses to  Bacterial Exposure in Vaginal Epithelium

37    Chang-Uk Jeong          University of Pennsylvania                                    

An Agentic System for Automated Data Curation and Analysis in Large-Scale Biobanks

38    Nicholas Bambach ,MS    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

GATES: a lightweight, automated tool making whole-exome sequencing analysis accessible to scientists with limited computational backgrounds

39    Sameen Hossain            Virginia Commonwealth University                

Characterizing Cellular Heterogeneity and Spatial Organization in Lung Adenocarcinoma with Visium HD

40    Junhyeong Lee, MS     University of Pennsylvania                                    

DeepU-PRS: Integrating Uncertainty-Aware Deep-ensemble SNP Heritability Estimation to Improve PRS / Bioinformatics methods development

41    Shupeng Luxu Harvard Chan School of Public Health                        

GeneGrad: Geometric Gradient-Based Biomarker Discovery in Single-Cell Transcriptomics

42  My Nguyen             Virginia Commonwealth University                

Improving prediction of 3D chromatin structures (Topologically Associating Domains)

43   Serin Jo           NYU Langone Health; Roslyn High School 

Design of a Lightweight Algorithm for Robust Mass Spectrometry Peak Detection

44   Ellyse Lai                 Carnegie Mellon University Auton Lab         

Harnessing Longitudinal Claims Data to Reveal Predictive Signals for Clinical Event Forecasting

45   Shikhar Gupta                    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Prenatal Hypoxia Reprograms Alternative Splicing Landscapes in the Developing Cortex

46   Esther Weyer              University of Delaware                                            

Population genomic analysis of H. majoris and its host the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) over a quarter of a century

47   Katherine Beigel, MS        Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Evaluation of potential ligand-receptor interactions between mechanically stressed human visceral smooth muscle cells and other cell types in the human bowel

48   Shizhuo Mu, MS         University of Pennsylvania                                    

Deep Generative Modeling of Isoform Aware RNA Velocity in Long-read Single-cell RNA-seq

49   Busra Coskun              University of Pennsylvania                                    

Benchmarking Statistical Dimension Reduction Frameworks for Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis with Missing Modalities

50  Pooja Sonawane, MS       University of Connecticut Health, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia                         

Characterizing Regulatory Regions of Key Cardiac Transcription Factors Using Lentiviral Based Massively Parallel Reporter Assays

51    Sungryong Oh, PhD      Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Interpreting congenital heart disorders by comprehensive analysis of cell type-specific gene regulatory program in the developing human heart

52  Caitlyn Johnson               Rowan University                        

Identifying Adaptive Mutations in HPV 16 Using Novel c/µ Method

53   MD Hasan, MS       Rowan University                                                         

Unraveling Dengue Virus Adaptation: Insights from Near-Neutral Balanced Selectionist Theory (NNBST) and Evolutionary Model Comparison

54   Bin Li, MS              Temple University                                                       

FSLearning: An Efficient Federated Split Learning Framework for Privacy-preserving Disease Prediction

55   Jamie Bregman, MS The Wistar Institute      

Isoform-Resolved Single-Cell Transcriptomics with Microfluidics-Free Barcoding and Long-Read Sequencing

56   Ali Oku, MS              New York Genome Center                                    

Enhancing Bulk RNA-Seq Deconvolution Using Atlas-Level Deep Learning Embeddings

57   Ananya Rajagopalan   University of Pennsylvania                                    

Elucidating the shared genetic architecture of hypercholesterolemia and endometriosis through a mediation framework

58   Marco DiGialleonardo Rowan University        

Using novel c/μ method to predict adaptive mutations in Respiratory Syncytial Virus A

59  Taha Mohseni Ahooyi, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Integrating Genetic and Clinical Data for Childhood Cancer and Birth Defects

60  Taha Mohseni Ahooyi, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

MOSAIC (Multi-scale Ontology-driven Semantic Analysis and Inference over Contexts): An Optimal Knowledge Graph Embedding Framework

61   Deanne Taylor, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Ontology‑Aware Integration of Kids First and dGTEx data for Pediatric Anatomy

62   Patrick Van Hoose       NDRI, National Disease Research Interchange

Pediatric metadata collection in the Developmental Genotype Expression Project enhances developmental comparison 

63   Irina Zhu, MS          University of Pennsylvania                                    

AI-driven 3D Digital Pathology of Immune Follicular Structures in Human

64   Connor Pitman          Rutgers University -- Camden                            

Untangling the role of contiguous hydrophobicity and specialty hydrophobic interactions in residue coevolution

65   Lindsey Riggs             Rutgers University - Camden                              

A toolkit for the analysis of contiguous regions of hydrophobicity in a protein sequence

66   Annie Tran, MS           Rowan University                        

Unraveling the Intricacies of HIV-1 Evolution through a Novel Near-Neutral UnBalanced Selection Theory Approach

67   Colette Trouillot, MS  Drexel University              

Multiomics Analysis of Impact of Increased FOXD3 Expression in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma

68   Ian Deosaran, MS         Rowan University

Using the substitution-mutation rate ratio test (c/µ) and the Near Neutral Balanced Selectionist Theory (NNBST) to Analyze the Mutational Spectrum of Monkeypox Virus

69   Vaughn Flippen         Rowan University

Identifying Adaptive Mutations in Rubella Virus Using the c/μ Method

70   Ayna Mammedova, MS  Coriell Institute for Medical Research         

Pan-Cancer Analysis of Transposable Element Expression Reveals Cancer Type-Specific Patterns

71     Ijeoma Meremikwu  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia                        

Spatial Profiling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment in Higher-Grade Meningioma

72     Ziyan Zhang              Carnegie Mellon University                                  

Scalable Computational Approaches for Genome-Wide Epistatic Variance Component Approximation

73     Lionel Sequeira          Rutgers University

Evaluating Low-Pass Whole Genome Sequencing as a Cost-Effective Alternative to SNP Genotyping Arrays for Copy Number Variant Detection

74     Mudassir Lodi              Rutgers University                                                       

Identifying Risk Genes Associated with Neural Progenitor Cell (NPC) Hyperproliferation

75     Jason Liu                        Rutgers University - Camden                              

A Novel Algorithm for Active Module Aggregation Based on the Earth Mover's Distance

76     Weijun Zeng, MS          Rutgers University

Identifying maternal risk and protective genes for egg aneuploidy                                                                                

77      Eve Schoeffler                Princeton University                                                  

Emergent patterns of methylation across early life associated with carotid intima-media thickness in young adults

78      Rima Zinjuwadia, MA       Northeastern University, Novo Nordisk Inc.

Harnessing Computational and Statistical Techniques for Insights into Liver MPS RNA-Seq Data

79      Xinyi (Emilia) Chen         University of Pennsylvania                                    

Resolution of Selection Versus Adaptation in Cellular Evolution  

80     Katie Barfield               Clemson University                                                   

Adapting a Probabilistic Alignment Method for Multi-Mapping Rescue in Ribo-Seq Data

81      Snehal Nirgude, PhD        Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Single-nucleus multiomic analysis of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome liver reveals PPARA signaling enrichment and metabolic dysfunction

82     Tanisha  Johri           Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Clinically Characterizing Monogenic Variants in Pediatric Kidney Stone Disease

83      April Boyd, MS         Virginia Commonwealth University               

Evolution of the HIV Envelope Protein and Its Connection to HIV Reservoir Dynamics: Longitudinal Analysis Over 13 Years

84      Aditya Birla               Rutgers Camden                                                          

PREDICTION OF BINDING AFFINITIES FOR PROTEIN-PEPTIDE SYSTEMS  USING SE(3) EQUIVARIANT NEURAL NETWORKS

85      Xiaotong Yang, MS         University of Michigan                                             

Cell type proportions rather than DNA methylation in the cord blood show statistically significant associations with severe preeclampsia

86      Hua (Tiffany) Lin          Roslyn High School                                                    

Enhanced EEG-Enabled Auditory Attention Detection Based on Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning with Graph Structure

87       Eloise Gaudet                  University of Pennsylvania                                   

Characterizing Transcriptional Landscape in Gliomas with Oxford Nanopore Long-Read Sequencing/Translational Bioinformatics

88       Zachary Davis                 University of Delaware                                            

Machine Learning Approaches to Prioritize Variants of Uncertain Significance in the Regulatory Domains of ABCA4

89       Zaina Punter                    University of Delaware                                            

Uncovering Divergent Viral DNA polymerase B Variants Using Protein Language Model Embeddings

90        Junyoung Kim, MA           Boston Children's Hospital                                  

Evaluating LLM Agents for Insurance Coverage Workflow Automation/Translational Bioinformatics

91         Cong Liu, PhD            Boston Children's Hospital                                  

Prioritizing NICU Patients for Genetics Referral and Rapid Exome/Genome Sequencing via EHR-Based Machine Learning Models

92         Cong Liu, PhD            Boston Children's Hospital                                  

Evaluating the Cost and Feasibility of LLM-Based HPO Term Extraction in Clinical Genomics

93         Youssef Mokssit, MS       Boston Children's Hospital                                  

Optimizing Clinical LLM Agents: Design Choices for FHIR and Rare Disease Diagnosis Workflows

94         Shasmeen Azhar               Virginia Commonwealth University                

Pangenome-Guided Recovery of Human DNA Missed by the Linear Reference in Cancer PDX Genomes

95         Cameron Cloud               University of Pennsylvania 

The Stability of Epigenetic Cell Identity in Cancer

97        Jennifer Almeyda     Bioinformatics Group in Multiomics and Immunology

Comprehensive computational and evidence-based epitope profiling of Bordetella pertussis

98        Beoung Hun Lee       University of Pennsylvania                                    

PipeVar: Reproducible pipeline to prioritize pathogenic variants in undiagnosed, rare disease patients for short-read sequencing and long-read sequencing.

99        Jaesik Kim, MS          University of Pennsylvania                                    

Evaluation of Multi-Agent LLMs in Multidisciplinary Team Decision-Making for Challenging Cancer Cases

100    Sathyanarayanan Vaidhyanathan     Rutgers University

tatDB/tarDB: cancer use cases and machine learning

101     Montana Knight, PhD       Children's Hospital of Philadelphia               

Evaluating Current Single-Cell Annotation Methods in Pediatric Populations

102     Subramanian Krishnamurthy Rutgers University  

Biomarker Discovery in Tourette's Disorder                                                                                                                            

103     Mahshid Arastonejad, MS    Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

Butyrate Modulates Intestinal Microbiome and Epithelial Function to Attenuate Irinotecan-induced GI Toxicity

104     Minh Nguyen             University of Pennsylvania                                    

Large-scale Phylogenetic Analysis of Intra-tumor Genetic Heterogeneity Dynamics in Pediatric Brain and CNS Tumor

105     Sabrina DaSilva        Children's Hospital of Philadelphia                             

Lasting mitochondrial and epigenetic disruption after prenatal hypoxia in glutamatergic neurons

106     Pankhuri Singhal   University of Pennsylvania                                 

Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models to Identify Undiagnosed Patients with Rare Genetic Aortopathies

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Rasika Venkatesh University of Pennsylvania

Integrating Imaging-Derived Clinical Endotypes with Plasma Proteomics and External Polygenic Risk Scores Enhances Coronary Microvascular Disease Risk Prediction

Robert Hu University of Pennsylvania

Unsupervised quantitative comparison of subcellular proteome organization in morphologically complex cells

Jonghyun Lee, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Clinically Aligned Multi-Modal Image-Text Model for Pan-Cancer Prognosis Prediction

Aude Benigne Ikuzwe Sindikubwabo University of Pennsylvania

Decoding the Genetic Architecture of Pregnancy Loss and Adverse Outcomes: Insights into Rare, Common, and Structural Variants from Large-Scale Biobanks

Rachelle Saint-Fort, MS Pennsylvania State University

3D Computational Gut Cell Characterization Across Animal Models

Carlos Dominguez Gonzalez, CGC Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

A Diagnostic Blind Spot: Deep Intronic SVA_E Insertion Identified as the Most Common Pathogenic Variant Associated with Canavan Disease

Ajay Yadav, PhD Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas

Development of Highly Specific Aptamers Against Carbendazim Using Machine Learning-Guided Computational Strategies

Maryam Ramazani, PhD West Virginia University

Topological Characterization of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Using Graph Theory

Akanksha Alampally, MS Rowan University

Domain-Specific Evolution of Influenza A H3N2 Hemagglutinin Revealed by c/µ and Molecular Clock Analyses

Sunmin Kim Johns Hopkins University

Comparative Performance of Machine Learning Models for Genomic-Based Survival Prediction in Breast, Lung, and Liver Cancers: A Network Meta-Analysis

Daniel Baker University of Pennsylvania

AI-driven discovery of GPNMB CAR T cells as a pan-cancer therapy

Ashwaq Aljabri, PhD       Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Unraveling SMARCA1's Role in Cancer Progression, Drug Resistance, and Muscle Differentiation Through EMT-Related Signaling, the TGF-β Pathway, and Key Transcription Factors SNAI1 and EGR1