Opening Remarks
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics
UAB
Keynote Talk Presentation 1
“The Assembly of a Human Pangenome”
Heng Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Keynote Talk Presentation 2
“Every Cell Has a Story to Tell”
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Technical Talks 1
“The Impact of Acute Kidney Injury on the Urinary Metabolome of COVID-19 Patients”
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“UALCAN, an Interactive Platform Facilitating Comprehensive Gene Expression and Survival Analysis of Non-coding RNA using TCGA Dataset: 2021 Update”
Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Harnessing Multi-omics Data for Biomarker and Knowledge Discovery”
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Louisiana State University
“Comparison Study Of Sixteen Differential Abundance Testing Methods Using Two Large Parkinson Disease Gut Microbiome Datasets”
Zachary Wallen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neurology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Technical Talks 2
“Building a Bioinformatics Environment for Immunology Research”
Alex Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“U-BRITE: A Biocomputing Infrastructure to Accelerate Data-intensive Translational Science”
Jelai Wang
Informatics Architect
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Long Read Genome Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
Greg Cooper, Ph.D.
Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha
“Inspector: A Reference-Free Long-read De Novo Assembly Evaluator”
Yu (Maggi) Chen
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bioinformatics Education Special Session
“Bioinformatics Education at Carnegie Mellon University”
Presented by:
Phillip Compeau, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor & Assistant Department Head, Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University
Elliot Lefkowitz Ph.D., Director of Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham
Technical Talks 3
“Building a Computational Platform for Precision Animal Model Selection and Drug Repurposing Prioritization”
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“B-assembler: A Circular Bacterial Genome Assembler”
Fengyuan Huang
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“From Collecting Multi-Omic Data to Inferring Meaning”
Ewy Mathe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Ohio State University
“Proteomic-bioinformatic Analysis of Low Abundance IgA1-immune Complexes in the Serum of IgA Nephropathy Patients”
Mary Bunten
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Workshop 1 – “Cloud Computing for Biomedical Research Special Session”
“Democratizing Access to Data and Compute on NHLBI BioData Catalyst, a Cloud Computing Platform”
Alison Leaf, Senior Program Manager, Seven Bridges
David Roberson, Community Associate, Seven Bridges
“American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform”
Laura Stevens, AHA Lead Data Scientist, Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine, and PhD. Candidate Computational Biology Anschutz Medical Campus University of Colorado Denver
Wesley Wiggins, Delivery Director, Cloud Engineering at Hitachi Vantara
Jennifer Hall, PhD., AHA Chief Data Science, Co-Director, Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine, and Adjunct Professor University of Minnesota
Workshop 2 – “Single Cell Tutorial Special Session”
“Single Cell Data Analysis Workshop”
Min Gao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, UAB
Jake Chen, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, UAB
Zongliang Yue, Ph.D., UAB
Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D., UAB
