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ROCKY 2018 | Dec 6 – 8, 2018 | Aspen/Snowmass, CO |Agenda at a Glance

AGENDA AT A GLANCE


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WEDNESDAY – December 5, 2018
START TIME END TIME SESSION TYPE
04:00 pm 06:00 pm REGISTRATION
 
THURSDAY – December 6, 2018
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
ZHIYONG LU, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Literature Search
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Senior Investigator, NCBI/NLM/NIH

Machine Learning in Biomedicine: from PubMed Search to Autonomous Disease Diagnosis
09:45 am 10:25 am OP 01 - OP 04
10:25 am 10:45 am Break
10:45 am 11:15 am Keynote 2
AARON VON HOOSER, PhD
Principal Scientist
Computational Biology
PatientsLikeMe, Inc.

Building a Learning System that Helps Individuals to Thrive by Connecting Their Experiences and Goals with Molecular Measures of Health
11:15 am 11:55 am OP 05 - OP 08
12:00 pm 04:00 pm -->Ski Break
04:00 pm 04:30 pm Keynote 3
JOSLYNN S. LEE, Ph.D.
Science Education Fellow
Howard Hughes Medical Institute


Training and Engaging URM Undergraduate Students in Genomics Research Through a Place-based Microbiome Research Project
04:30 pm 05:10 pm OP 09 - OP 12
05:10 pm 05:30 pm Break
05:30 pm 06:00 pm OP 13 - OP 15
06:30 pm 09:30 pm Dinner - Il Poggio
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FRIDAY – December 7, 2018
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
DEBORAH L. MCGUINNESS, PhD

Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Semantic Data Resources Enabling Science: Building, Using, and Maintaining Ontology-Enabled Biology Data Resources
09:45 am 10:25 am OP 16 - OP 19
10:25 am 10:45 am Break
10:45 am 11:15 am Keynote 5
DAVID ASTLING, PhD

Scientist, Bioinformatics
SomaLogic Inc.

Beyond Genomics: Deriving Actionable Health Insights from the Human Proteome
11:15 am 11:55 am OP 20 - OP 23
12:00 pm 04:00 pm -->Ski Break
04:00 pm 04:30 pm Keynote 6
NICOLE A. VASILEVSKY, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE)
Oregon Health & Science University

LOINC2HPO: Improving Translational Informatics by Standardizing EHR Phenotypic Data Using the Human Phenotype Ontology
04:30 pm 05:10 pm OP 24 - OP 27
05:10 pm 05:30 pm Break
05:30 pm 06:00 pm OP 28 - OP 30
06:30 pm 08:30 pm Poster Session
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SATURDAY – December 8, 2018
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
BENJAMIN M. GOOD, PhD
Consultant
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs


Integrating Pathway Databases with Gene Ontology Causal Activity Models
09:30 am 10:20 am OP 31 - OP 35
10:20 am 10:40 am Break
10:40 am 11:30 am OP 36 - OP 40
11:30 am 12:00 pm Keynote 8
KIRK E. JORDAN, PhD
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Data Centric Solutions
IBM T.J. Watson Research & Chief Science Officer

Algorithm Exploitation & Evolving AI/Cognitive Examples on IBM’s Data Centric Systems
12:00 pm 12:15 pm Closing Raffle and Awards

 


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