Poster Listing By Number

1 Alexandra Manchel PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Gene expression dynamics of human and mouse craniofacial development at the single-cell level

2 Sydney Stanley PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Whole Genome Characterization of the Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Plasmidome Within a Large Academic Pediatric Hospital for Molecular Surveillance

3 Arielle Biron, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Automated Classification of Kidney Stone Location on Non-Contrast CT Using Machine Learning

4 Justin Blair MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Systematic In Silico Mutagenesis of JAG1 Identifies Structural Hotspots Relevant to Missense Variant Interpretation

5 Kuanyang Fang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

A Sequence-Based Framework for Predicting the Evolutionary Dynamics of Enhancer-Associated Liver CTCF Binding across Mammals

6 Mason Dao, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Spatial proteomics identifies virus-associated CD8-centered immune neighborhoods in congenital placental infection

7 Yongji Zou, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Robust Direct RNA Sequencing-based Reactivity Calling Across Nanopore Pore Generations and Probing Chemistries

8 Karl Keat PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Biobank-scale genomic analysis of quantitative CT image-derived phenotypes links complex disease risk variants to organ traits

9 Aude Benigne Ikuzwe Sindikubwabo, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Endophenotype-Informed Polygenic Risk Stratification for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in individuals of African Ancestry

10 Tanush Parasam Harish MS, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

scPipelinePy: A Modular Open-Source Python Framework for Reproducible Single-Cell RNA-seq Analysis

11 Connor Tiffany PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Healthcare Access and Quality is a Robust Predictor of Infant Gut Microbiota Variation and Pathogen Colonization

12 Kamalakkannan Ravi PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Reclassification Is All You Missed: Surfacing Variant Reinterpretation Need in Online Health Communities at Population Scale

13 Haedong Kim PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Exome-Wide Copy Number Variation in 142,357 Individuals from Autism Spectrum Families in the Simons SPARK Cohort

14 Ben Stear MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Pleiotropic Analysis of Neuroblastoma and Congenital Heart Defects using graph neural networks

15 Viveknarayanan Padmanabhan MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA From Spreadsheets to Sample Discovery: A Scalable Informatics Framework for Biobank Data Integration

16 Darshan Mehta, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Personalized antigen discovery for cancer vaccines using long-read RNA sequencing

17 Patrick Van Hoose PhD, National Disease Research Interchange, Philadelphia, PA The Developmental Genotype Expression Project metadata framework creates the foundation for advancements in pediatric research

18 Elizabeth Levitis PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ClinSeg: Robust Brain Segmentation for Clinically Acquired Pediatric MRI

19 Lixia Chen Wu MS, Rutgers University STCS: A Platform-Agnostic Framework for Cell-Level Reconstruction in Sequencing-Based Spatial Transcriptomics

20 Pranav Arra, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Integrating Spatial Transcriptomics and Metabolomics for Inferring Cell-Cell Interactions

21 Hongzhuo Chen MA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA FaceKit: a Lightweight Toolkit for Interpretable Facial Phenotyping in Rare Diseases

22 Julie Nguyen MS, University of Delaware Cartilage Explant-Based High-Throughput Screening Identifies Matrix-Protective Compounds and Supports Candidate Prioritization for Osteoarthritis Drug Repurposing

23 Rasika Venkatesh PhD, University of Pennsylvania Interpretable Temporal Modeling of Longitudinal EHR Trajectories Reveals Early Predictors of Incident Atrial Fibrillation

24 Deanne Taylor PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Deterministic gene-set construction and measurement-matched null design for testing structural organization of curated disease genes in developmental spatial transcriptomics

25 Stephanie Mohammed PhD, University of Pennsylvania GENETIC MEDIATION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE RISK THROUGH ANDROGEN AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS RELEVANT TO POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

26 Cameron Liggett, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A Multi-Evidence Computational Pipeline Prioritizes Candidate HSV-1 Us3 Kinase Substrates Identified by Proximity-based Phosphoproteomics

27 Shuyang Han, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health Quantifying Cell and Gene Repositioning Across Tissue States Using Tissue-Intrinsic Geometric Coordinates

28 Timothy Purwin PhD, Thomas Jefferson University Gene signature reveals YAP/TAZ/TEAD activity may influence ICi response by modulating MHC antigen processing and presentation machinery in melanoma

29 Alicia Holk MS, University of Delaware Rapid Segmentation of High-Resolution Microscopy Images Using an Integrated Machine Learning Approach

30 Apoorva Babu MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Integrated Longitudinal Multi-omic profiling identifies latent sources of biological variation in pediatric MODS using MOFA2

31 Thomas Roule PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia GNOMES: A Pipeline for Normalization and Differential Binding Analysis of CUT&RUN and ChIP-seq Data

32 Kelsey Keith MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Targeted modulation of IGFBP5/IGF1, THPO, and P38 MAPK signaling are potent therapeutic strategies generalizable for mitochondrial respiratory chain disease

33 Naeem Ahmed, University of Connecticut Optimizing copy number profiles for tumor cell phylogeny inference from low-coverage single-cell sequencing data

34 Tamar Peleg, University of Delaware A Computational Framework for Designing Engineered Targeting Proteins for Drug Delivery

35 Tugce Kinik PhD, MS, Temple University Explainable Machine Learning for Predicting Functional Limitations Among U.S. Adult Cancer Survivors Using National Health Interview Survey Data

36 Katrin Donetski, Cornell University Computational Detection of Candidate Pathogenic Mosaic Variants in High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients

37 Suhotro Gorai, University of Delaware GradioMS: a simple tool for machine learning applications on mass spectrometry data analysis

38 Nathan Zhao, Rutgers University Identification of Candidate Genes with Rare Coding Variants in Tourette Syndrome Patients Using Whole-Exome Sequencing

39 William Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania A multi-scanner whole-slide image framework for detection of scanner-induced batch effects in digital pathology data

40 Xingyan Liu, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Geometry-guided phenotyping reveals interpretable spatial programs of Ebola infection beyond viral abundance

41 Jessica Knapp, University of Pennsylvania Characterizing the mutation spectra of mammalian X chromosomes to identify related mutagenic processes

42 Tan Long Nguyen, Temple University PangenomeFM: Graph-Native Pretraining for Reusable Human Pangenome Representations

43 Anna-Therese Mehra AB, Independent Researcher Intron Architecture and Transcriptional Responses to Desiccation Across Dipteran Genomes

44 Ijeoma Meremikwu, University of Pennsylvania Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Myeloid Programs in Brain-Invasive Meningioma

45 Colette Trouillot MS, Drexel University Foxd3 expression modulates the tumor immune microenvironment in cutaneous melanoma

46 Akil Talakola, Temple University DNA Methylation-Based Classification of Consensus Molecular Subtypes in Colorectal Cancer

47 Pooja Sonawane MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Characterizing Regulatory Elements and Noncoding Variants Associated with Structural Birth Defects Using Lentiviral Based Massively Parallel Reporter Assays

48 Pankhuri Singhal PhD, University of Pennsylvania A Multimodal Agentic Knowledge Graph System for Screening Undiagnosed Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy

49 Jason LaPierre, Virginia Commonwealth University Klee-HD: A Spatial Framework for Decoding Host-Microbe Interactions and Characterizing Microbe-Associated Niches

50 Hannah McGinty, Drexel University Evidence for Shared Developmental Signaling Landscapes Between Craniosynostosis and Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism

51 Lanawill Caruth, University of Pennsylvania Multimodal models integrating rare variants and unstructured EHR features identify endometriosis with AUROC ~0.80 in a chart-reviewed biobank cohort

52 Ayna Mammedova MS, Coriell Institute for Medical Research CDK9 and CDK12 Inhibition Drive Chromatin Relaxation and Transposable Element Reactivation Through Distinct, Gene-Length-Dependent Mechanisms

53 Johnna Berryhill MS, Virginia Commonwealth University OncoProfilingTools: a human-in-the-loop AI framework for pharmacogenomic drug-response analysis

54 Shivaram Karandikar, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A multi-center imaging study of neuroanatomical deviation patterns in pediatric leukodystrophies.

55 Tess Cherlin PhD, University of Pennsylvania Evaluating “Out-of-the-Box” Foundation Vision Models in PMOS Follicle Detection

56 Janvi Garg MS, Columbia University Computational Synthesis of Inflammatory and Nutritional Biomarker Signatures for Precision Risk Stratification in NSCLC Immunotherapy: A Translational Bioinformatics Approach

57 Ewura-Esi Manful MSc, Pennsylvania State University scMultiPreDICT: A single-cell predictive framework with transcriptomic and epigenetic signatures

58 Dijeet Kaur, University of Pennsylvania Interaction between mutational processes and coding sequences drive enrichments of specific loss-of-function mutations in tumor suppressor genes

59 Yu Liu PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center Integrating epigenomic features reveals principles of chromatin-state organization

60 Nikita Gulati, Rutgers University Comparative analysis of reported gene targets and binding regions of Glu-CTC tRNA fragments across human diseases

61 Hongxiang Fu PhD, University of Pennsylvania MethScope: Recurrent Pattern Encoding for Sparse DNA Methylomes

62 Luke Ni PhD, University of Pennsylvania The Clinical and Genetic Landscape of CT-Derived Kidney Biomarkers

63 Orian Stapleton MS, Johns Hopkins University ​ Characterizing senescence subtypes and the impact of their niche on wound healing​

64 Lionel Sequeira, Rutgers University Identification of Candidate Causal Genes for Tourette Disorder from a Quartet Family

65 Julianna Pakstis MI, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ​A Framework for Integrating Clinical Proteomics Data into Multi-Omics Discovery​

66 Subramanian Krishnamurthy, Rutgers University ​Identifying Candidate Genes for Chronic Tic Disorder from de novo Copy Number Variants​

67 Manuel Torres Diz MS PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ​

Arcus Omics: An Enterprise-Scale Platform for Genomic Data and Translational Research at CHOP

68 Shasmeen Azhar, Virgina Commonwealth University ​ Spatially Resolving Bacterial Burden, Iron Restriction, and Immune Recruitment in Gingival Tissue

69 Katherine Beigel MS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ​A single-cell meta-atlas of human intestinal smooth muscle cells (HISMCs) in intestinal diseases

70 Alexis Schulz, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Automating ELSO Registry Data Collection Through Event-Centered Data Management and Large Language Model-Assisted Abstraction

71 Thomas Westbrook, University of Pennsylvania Plasma proteomic correlates of immune-related adverse events in a longitudinal checkpoint inhibitor cohort

72 Minhe Liu, Rutgers University Effect of RNA Diffusion on Spatial Transcriptomics Data

73 Kayra Saçan, Drexel University Predicting Survival in Hemorrhagic Shock using Machine Learning​

74 Katherine Cyr MS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A Data Harmonization and Statistical Pipeline for Continuous, Age- and Sex-Specific Pediatric Laboratory References

75 Shamdeed Kabir, University of Delaware Extending the chicken breast muscle transcriptome through high-confidence novel isoform discovery using long-read sequencing

76 Ivy Tran, Temple University Integrating Local African Ancestry and DNA Methylation to Investigate Epigenetic Age Deceleration in Colorectal Cancer

77 Jeffery Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ContrastLEMBAS: Generalizable Drug-Target Prediction via Contrastive Learning

78 Kasonde Chewe, Drexel University Integrative Analyses of Biological Data on Multiple Scales

79 Weijun Zeng PhD, Rutgers University Using cross-species validations to understand the function of aneuploidy risk genes

80 Visnu Chowdhury MS, University of Delaware Rational domain segmentation improves discovery of phosphoinositide-binding bacterial effectors via 3D structural homology

81 Weijun Zeng PhD, Rutgers University Using cross-species validations to understand the function of aneuploidy risk genes

82 Ekaterina Shipilova Luis Montaner MS, The Wistar Institute Metabolic Reprogramming in ART-suppressed PLWH: Exacerbation by Medications for Opioid Use Disorders

83 Cristina Martin Linares PhD, Johns Hopkins University A Context-Dependent Foundation Model for Splicing

84 Apoorva Sharma MS, University at Buffalo A persistent clonally expanded CD4⁺ phenotype revealed by paired single-cell transcriptome and TCR-repertoire analysis in recurrent mucosal inflammation.

85 Hameed Sansui MS, Rutgers University tatCNN: A Multi-Input Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting mRNA Targets of Transfer RNA-Derived Fragments (tRFs)

86 Mingyao Pan, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Antigen-aware TCR embeddings reveal conserved immune patterns for personalized immune monitoring

87 Sonia Patel, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia AI-enabled data abstraction provides reliable results enabling clinically meaningful research

88 Mahek Virani, Rutgers University Identifying Risk and Protective Genetic Variants for Human Embryo Aneuploidy Using Whole-Genome Sequencing from Preimplantation Genetic Testing

89 Christian Alvarado MS, University of Delaware Cardiometabolic–Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome and Accelerated Biological Aging in U.S. Adults

90 Jason Liu, Rutgers University Extreme p-value estimation for large-scale permutation tests via the sub-Gaussian tail inequality

91 Lexi Li, University of Pennsylvania Towards intelligent histopathology for enhancing and guiding spatial transcriptomics with ATHENA

92 Arjun Paunikar, ATLAS Genetic, Biochemical, and Clinical Predictors of Accelerated Progression in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

93 Pascal Kataboh PhD, Swarthmore College Identifiability and Experimental Design for Neural–Mechanistic Hybrid Models Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Colorectal Cancer

94 Muhammed Erguder PhD, Columbia University Long-Read Sequencing and T2T-CHM13 Alignment Improve Structural Variant Discovery in an Expanding Alzheimer's Disease Cohort

95 Chunwan Sun MS, Rutgers University Epigenetically constrained astrocyte states underlie prefrontal cortex vulnerability in Down syndrome–associated Alzheimer’s disease