7:50 - 8:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics
UAB
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Talk 1: “The assembly of a human pangenome”
Heng Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Talk 2: “Every cell has a story to tell”
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Technical Talks 1
Moderated by: Elliot Lefkowitz Ph.D.,Director of Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, UAB
10:00 – 10:20 a.m.
“The impact of acute kidney injury on the urinary metabolome of COVID-19 patients”
Stephan Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
UAB
10:20 – 10:30 a.m.
“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.,
Research V in the Department of Pathology
UAB
10:30 – 10:50 a.m.
“Harnessing Multi-omics Data for Biomarker and Knowledge Discovery”
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
LSU
10:50 – 11:00 a.m.
“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
UAB
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Technical Talks 2
Moderated by: Malay Basu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, UAB
11:00 – 11:20 a.m.
“Building a Bioinformatics Environment for Immunology Research”
Alex Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
UAB
11:20 – 11:30 a.m.
“U-BRITE: A Biocomputing infrastructure to accelerate data-intensive translational science”
Jelai Wang
Informatics Architect
UAB
11:30 – 11:50 a.m.
“Long read genome sequencing for the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders”
Greg Cooper, Ph.D.
Faculty Investigator
HudsonAlpha
11:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
“Inspector: a reference-free long-read de novo assembly evaluator”
Yu (Maggi) Chen
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
UAB
12:00 - 12:15 p.m.
Break
Take this time to take a quick break and grab lunch before the next session.
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Bioinformatics Education Special Session over lunch
Moderated by: Jake Chen, Ph.D., Chief Bioinformatics Officer, UAB
“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, LSU
Elliot Lefkowitz Ph.D. , Director of Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, UAB
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Technical Talks 3
Moderated by: Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology, UAB
1:30 – 1:50 p.m.
“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
UAB
1:50 – 2:00 p.m.
“B-assembler: a circular bacterial genome assembler”
Fengyuan Huang
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
UAB
2:00 – 2:20 p.m.
“From Collecting Multi-Omic Data to Inferring Meaning”
Ewy Mathe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Ohio State University
2:20 – 2:30 p.m.
“Proteomic-bioinformatic analysis of low abundance IgA1-immune complexes in the serum of IgA Nephropathy patients”
Mary Bunten
GBS/Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB) Student
UAB
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Workshops
Workshop 1
Cloud Computing for Biomedical Research Special Session
Moderated by: Zechen Chong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UAB
“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
Reminder: an eRA commons ID is needed to participate in this workshop.
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
4:30 - 4:40 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Jake Chen, Ph.D., Associate Director, UAB Informatics Institute
James Cimino, M.D., Director, UAB Informatics Institute
Zoom Information
Opening Remarks, Keynote Talks, Technical Talk Sessions, Bioinformatics Education Special Session over
Lunch, and Closing Remarks (7:50 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. CST)
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Workshop: Cloud Computing for Biomedical Research Special Session (2:30 – 4:30 p.m. CST)
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