15th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
DETAILED AGENDA
| Go directly to: Friday - December 8 | Saturday - December 9 | ||
| WEDNESDAY – December 6, 2017 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 04:00 pm | 06:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| THURSDAY – December 7, 2017 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 1 Maricel Kann, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Maryland, USA A Protein-Domain Approach for the Analysis of Disease Mutations |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | OP 01 Comparative Genomics and Alliance for Genome Resources Presenting Author: Judith Blake, Jackson Laboratory |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | OP 02 RSEQREP: RNA-Seq Reports, an open-source cloud-enabled framework for reproducible RNA-Seq data processing, analysis, and result reporting Presenting Author: Travis Jensen, The Emmes Corporation |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | OP 03 Confounds in biomedical natural language processing Presenting Author: Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | OP 04 Integrated molecular and clinical analysis for understanding human disease relationships Presenting Author: Winston Haynes, Stanford University |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:15 am | Keynote 2 Patrick Zhao, Ph.D. Professor and Head Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab Noble Research Institute, LLC Oklahoma, USA Genotype-phenotype Association Discovery through Accurately Dissecting Phenotype-associated Genetic Causal Effects |
| 11:15 am | 11:25 am | OP 05 Continuous integration for ensuring interoperability of the Open Biomedical Ontologies Presenting Author: William Baumgartner, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 11:25 am | 11:35 am | OP 06 Classification of glioblastoma subtypes by integrating genomic and histopathological image features with probabilistic graphical models Presenting Author: Dimitris Manatakis, University of Pittsburgh |
| 11:35 am | 11:45 am | OP 07 MPEG-G the emerging standard for genomic data compression Presenting Author: Mikel Hernaez, University of Illinois |
| 11:45 am | 11:55 am | OP 08 Physical aspects of the -helix and their implications towards amyloidal tendency Presenting Author: Simcha Srebnik, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 pm | 04:00 pm | -->Ski Break |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Keynote 3 Krista Meyer, Ph.D. Director of Proteomic Analysis, R&D Biodesix: Making Medicine Personal® Colorado, USA Development of Clinically Relevant Tests from Human Serum Samples: A Look at the Circulating Proteome |
| 04:30 pm | 04:40 pm | OP 09 A Novel Systematic Analysis of ALDH Isozyme Specificity in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Presenting Author: Brian Jackson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 04:40 pm | 04:50 pm | OP 10 Building a Systems-level model of the immune response to Salmonella infection Presenting Author: Marta Andres-Terre, Stanford University |
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | OP 11 Development of a statistical model of the genetics of maternal-fetal dyads in neonatal abstinence syndrome Presenting Author: James Denvir, Marshall University |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | OP 12 Tracing the Innate Genetic Evolution and Spatial Heterogeneity in Treatment Naïve Lung Cancer Lesions Presenting Author: Jihye Kim, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 05:10 pm | 05:30 pm | Break |
| 05:30 pm | 05:40 pm | OP 13 Locating sites of ribonucleotide incorporation in RNase H2-deficient cells Presenting Author: Alli Gombolay, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 05:40 pm | 05:50 pm | OP 14 Increasing flexibility of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) through extension of relational database model with NoSQL Presenting Author: Marcin J. Domagalski, University of Virginia |
| 05:50 pm | 06:00 pm | OP 15 Correcting for non-random fragmentation allows for more accurate estimation of relative abundance in NGS metagenomic data. Presenting Author: Elmar Pruesse, University of Colorado Denver |
| 06:30 pm | 09:30 pm | Dinner - Il Poggio |
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| FRIDAY – December 8, 2017 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 4 Bjoern Peters, Ph.D. Associate Professor La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology California, USA Open Biomedical Ontology Services |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | OP 16 Assembly-free metagenomic analyses on distributed computational platforms Presenting Author: Anna Paola Carrieri, IBM Research UK |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | OP 17 Discovering the Contribution of the Gut Microbiome to the Plasma Metabolome Presenting Author: Michael Shaffer, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | OP 18 Statistical Integration and Feature Selection for Candidate Biomarker Discovery Presenting Author: Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | OP 19 DySE – Dynamic System Explanation Framework, Application in Cancer Presenting Author: Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, University of Pittsburgh |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:15 am | Keynote 5 Renée Deehan Kenney, Ph.D. Head of Biology and Bioinformatics PatientsLikeMe Massachusetts, USA Digital Me: Developing a Learning Health System through the Integration of Longitudinal Patient-generated Health Data with Multi-omic Molecular Measurements |
| 11:15 am | 11:25 am | OP 20 A systems biology approach using cell-to-cell heterogeneity to map cell fate decisions in developmental processes Presenting Author: Jens Preussner, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research |
| 11:25 am | 11:35 am | OP 21 Enabling Deep Learning on Structural Biological Data Presenting Author: Tom Corcoran, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:35 am | 11:45 am | OP 22 Unsupervised discovery of phenotype specific heterogeneous gene networks Presenting Author: Jenny Shi, University of Colorado AMC |
| 11:45 am | 11:55 am | OP 23 Dissimilarity Matrix Based Clustering for Phylogenetic Analysis Presenting Author: Tara Eicher, The Ohio State University |
| 12:00 pm | 04:00 pm | -->Ski Break |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Keynote 6 Tom Hraha, Ph,D. Research Scientist, Bioinformatics SomaLogic, Inc. Boulder, Colorado, USA SOMAscan™ Proteomic Insights Contrasted with Genetic Insights in Down Syndrome Patients: The Need for a Molecular Phenotype Approach |
| 04:30 pm | 04:40 pm | OP 24 Automated Biomedical Text Classification with Research Domain Criteria Presenting Authors: Mohammad Anani, Montana State University and Indika Kahanda, Montana State University |
| 04:40 pm | 04:50 pm | OP 25 Unsupervised methods for lexical ambiguity in concept normalization Presenting Author: Negacy Hailu, University of Colorado |
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | OP 26 A Comparison of Viral Identification Techniques in Longitudinal Metagenomic Datasets Presenting Author: Cody Glickman, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | OP 27 A Pilot Systematic Genomic Comparison of Recurrence Risks of Hepatitis B Virus-associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma with low and high degree of liver fibrosis Presenting Author: Seungyeul Yoo, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 05:10 pm | 05:30 pm | Break |
| 05:30 pm | 05:40 pm | OP 28 Identifying and Annotating Uninvestigated Preeclampsia-Related Genes Using Linked Open Biomedical Data Presenting Author: Tiffany Callahan, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 05:40 pm | 05:50 pm | OP 29 Novel Approaches for Accuracy Assessment of 3D Chromatin Configuration Reconstructions Presenting Author: Mark Segal, University of California San Francisco |
| 05:50 pm | 06:00 pm | OP 30 Codon Aversion: An alignment-free method to recover phylogenies Presenting Author: Justin Miller, Brigham Young University |
| 06:30 pm | 08:30 pm | Poster Session • Poster abstracts • Poster list |
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| SATURDAY – December 9, 2017 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 11:00 am | Registration |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:30 am | Keynote 7 Olivier Lichtarge, Ph.D. Stephen Wilson Baylor College of Medicine Texas, USA MeTeOR: a Literature Network for Hypothesis Generation and Precision Medicine |
| 09:30 am | 09:40 am | OP 31 Isoform level differential network analysis: A proffer alternative for identifying cancer markers Presenting Author: Manoj Kandpal, Northwestern University |
| 09:40 am | 09:50 am | OP 32 Non-B DNA Predictor: A Web Application for Identifying Potential Intramolecular Non-B DNAs Presenting Author: Hannah Ajoge, Western University |
| 09:50 am | 10:00 am | OP 33 IMPACT Web Portal: An Oncology Database Integrating Molecular Profiles with Actionable Therapeutics from Next Generation Sequencing Data Presenting Author: Jennifer Hintzsche, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 10:00 am | 10:10 am | OP 34 Exploring Frequented Regions in Pan-Genomic Graphs Presenting Author: Brendan Mumey, Montana State University |
| 10:10 am | 10:20 am | OP 35 TOBIAS - Transcription factor Occupancy prediction By Investigation of ATAC-seq Signals Presenting Author: Mario Looso, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research |
| 10:20 am | 10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am | 10:50 am | OP 36 Integrating Protein Localization Information in Signaling Pathway Reconstructions Presenting Author: Anna Ritz, Reed College |
| 10:50 am | 11:00 am | OP 37 Reducing the footprint of mass spectrometry data Presenting Author: Idoia Ochoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | OP 38 Meeting today's challenging computational biology demands by integrating a focused IT team into the research process Presenting Author: Dan Timmons, University of Colorado Boulder/BioFrontiers Institute |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | OP 39 Predicting Adverse Events Associated with Kinase Inhibitors from Clinical Drug Trials. Presenting Author: Ilyssa Summer, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 11:20 am | 11:30 am | OP 40 Characterization of the mechanism of drug-drug interactions from PubMed Presenting Author: Feng Cheng, University of South Florida |
| 11:30 am | 12:00 pm | Keynote 8 Kirk E. Jordan, Ph.D. IBM Distinguished Engineer Data Centric Solutions IBM T.J. Watson Research & Chief Science Officer IBM Research UK Data Centric Systems: Algorithm Exploitation & Evolving Cognitive Examples |
| 12:00 pm | 12:15 pm | Closing Raffle and Awards |