Opening Remarks
Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Institute Director
Chief Bioinformatics Officer
Professor of Genetics and Computer Science
Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Keynote Presentation
“Searching for Roots of Cancer Formation and Development in the Chemistry of Celluar Acid-base Homeostasis”
Ying Xu, Ph.D.
Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar
Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Georgia
Session I: Clinical Informatics and Clinical Research Informatics
“Introduction to Clinical Informatics”
Wayne Liang, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
“EMR Transition for Ambulatory Care“
Stephanie Lenz-Norman, MSN, RN
Chief Clinical Information Officer, Children’s of Alabama
“Baby NINJA: Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in the NICU“
Christine Stoop, D.O., M.P.H.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Clinical Research Informatis, Disease Data Analysis, and Translational Bioinformatics in Neonatal Intensive Care“
Namasivayam Ambalavanan, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Cell Biology and Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“UAB i2b2: Present and Future“
Matthew Wyatt, MSHI
Director of Clincial Research Informatics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session II: Biocomputing and Statistical Genomics
“Bioconductor and NCI Data Resources at Genomic Data Common”
Sean Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
“Analyzing Large Public Datasets with Automated Software Solutions Can Greatly Increase Research Efficiency”
Aaron Hall
“WIPER: Weighted In-path Edge Ranking for Biomoleuclar Association Networks”
Karim Budhwani, Ph.D.
Trainee, UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Toolbox from UAB”
Hemant Tiwari, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“BioITX: Connecting Data Analytic Infrastructure with Translational Bioinformatics Research”
Jelai Wang
Informatics Architect
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session III: Bioinformatics Methods
“UALCAN: An Integrated Data-mining Platform to Facilitate the Comprehensive Analysis of Cancer Transciptome”
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Family Community Medicine Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Ph.D.
UAB Comprehensive Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Scalable De Novo Genome Assembly Using Pregel”
Da Yan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Effective Analysis of Multigenic Traits in GWAS”
Alexander Stepanov, Ph.D.
Scientist, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
“Identification of Meiotic Recombination Events Based on Pedigree Analysis of Linked Reads Sequencing Data”
Peng Xu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Developing a Drp1-based Gene Expression Signature (DBGES) as a Predictive and Prognostic Marjer for Ovarian and Other Cancers”
Malay Basu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session IV: Applications in Translational Science and Precision Medicine
“Visualizing the B Cell Receptor Repertoire”
Christopher Fucile, M.S.
Scientist, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“PAIRS: Partnered Advancement of Informatics Research and Support – A Case Study”
Min Gao, Ph.D.
Scientist, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Transcriptomic and Proteomic Changes in NF1 Deficient Cells”
Deeann Wallis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Integrating Germline with Somatic Mutation Information for the Discovery of Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer”
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
