Opening Remarks
James J. Cimino, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine Director
Informatics Institute
Co-Director, Center for Clinical & Translational Science
The Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Technical Talk Session I
Moderator: Elliot Lefkowitz, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Bioinformatics
Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
The Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Probing the Glioblastoma Kinome”
Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Division of Neuropathology
Department of Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Statistical Enrichment Analysis of Sample Clinical Attributes Using SEAS”
Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics and Computer Science
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“The Motif Composition of Variable-Number Tandem Repeats Impacts Gene Expression”
Mark Chaisson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology
University of Southern California
“Informatics to Unleash the Power of Biomedical Big Data: Genetic, EHR, and Imaging”
Degui Zhi, Ph.D.
MS Associate Professor
Director, Center for AI & Genome Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Keynote Talk 1
“Transposable Elements and Epigenome Evolution”
Ting Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Career Development Session
Moderator: Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Chief Bioinformatics Officer
Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Matthew Might, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chen Su, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Enterprise High Performance Computing
Eli Lilly and Company
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Ann Loraine, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioinformatics
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Trainee Flash Talk Session
Moderator: Amy Wang, M.D., MBI
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Family Community Medicine
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Informatics to Unleash the Power of Biomedical Big Data: Genetic, EHR, and Imaging”
Ari Ginsparg
Department of Neurobiology
Graduate Biomedical Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Comprehensive Structural Variant Detection: From Population to Mosaic Level”
Luis Paulin, Ph.D.
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine
“Complex-Inverted Genomic Triplication Structures: Two Breakpoint Junctions, Several Possibilities”
Christopher Grochowski, Ph.D.
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
“A Case Study of Functional Genomics Downstream Analysis with the PAGER Web App”
Radomir Slominski, MD
Bioinformatics, Graduate School Biomedical Sciences
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Studying Medically Relevant Bacterial Propagation Through Prospective Multimodal Analysis of Clinical Isolates”
Emma Graffice
Microbiology, Graduate School – Biomedical Science
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Autoencoder Finds Novel Cardiomyocyte Clusters Contributing to Cardiac Regeneration from Single-cell Data”
Thanh Minh Nguyen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics Institute
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Keynote Talk 2
“Extrachromosomal DNA Amplifications in Cancer Genomes”
Roel Verhaak, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Director of Computational Biology
The Jackson Laboratory
Presentation
“Recent Advances in Vitamin D Signaling: New Opportunities for Computational Biology”
Andrzej T. Slominski, M.D. Ph.D.
Department of Dermatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Technical Talk Session 2
Moderator: Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Investigating the Mutational Features of Pathogenic Structural Variants in Genomic Disorders Using Long-read Sequencing and Optical Mapping”
Claudia M.B. Carvalho Fonseca, Ph.D
Assistant Investigator
Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI)
“Harnessing Big Data for Precision Oncology”
Leng Han, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology
“Methods for Characterizing Structural Variants with High-throughput Sequencing Data”
Maizie Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University
“Singlecell Transcriptome Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Identifies Circulating Tumor Cells of Lung Cancer Brain Metastases”
Xu Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Auburn University
Workshop Tutorials
Moderator: Ryan Melvin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Results-First AI/ML (for Complete Beginners)”
Ryan Melvin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“There and Back Again: Making Research Analysis Easier for the 1st, 2nd, and the 1000th Time”
Blake Joyce, Ph.D.
Data Science Manager
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research Computing
