Institute for Biomedical Informatics
Genomics and Computational Biology
Graduate Group2017 Annual Retreat June 8 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaMutter Museum19 South 22nd StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19103
For more information, please contact Maureen Kirsch [email protected]
Institute forBiomedical Informatics
Many thanks to our sponsors!The Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaDepartment of Biomedical and Health InformaticsThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research InstituteDepartment of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Opening remarks
9:15 AM Melissa Wilson Sayres, Keynote Lecture Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and
Bioinformatics, Arizona State University Sex-based Genome Evolution
10:15 AM Alex Amlie-Wolf GCB Student, Wang Lab Integrative analysis identi�es immune-related
enhancers and lncRNAs perturbed by genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease
10:40 AM Eric Joyce Assistant Professor of Genetics High-throughput imaging and analysis of 3D
genome organization
Co�ee break
11:35 AM Ian Mellis MD-PhD GCB Student, Raj Lab Determining and inducing gene expression patterns
underlying cell identity
12:00 PM William La Cava Postdoctoral Researcher, Moore Lab A general feature engineering wrapper for learning
biomedical data representations
Lunch and poster session
2:00 PM Laura Almasy Professor of Genetics Variance component approaches for complex trait
genetics
2:25 PM Matthew Breitenstein Instructor in Informatics Translational bioinformatics: molecular signal
detection in cancer pharmacoepidemiology
2:50 PM Katie Siewert GCB Student, Voight Lab Genetic correlation and causal inference analyses
for migraine headache
Co�ee break
3:45 PM Steven Salzberg, Plenary lecture Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, Computer Science and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Transcriptome Assembly: Computational Challenges of Next-Generation Sequence Data
4:45 PM Reception
