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ROCKY 2019 | Dec 5 – 7, 2019 | Aspen/Snowmass, CO |Agenda at a Glance

AGENDA AT A GLANCE


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WEDNESDAY – December 4, 2019
START TIME END TIME SESSION TYPE
04:00 pm 06:00 pm Registration
 
THURSDAY – December 5, 2019
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
KEVIN BRETONNEL COHEN, PhD
Director, Biomedical Text Mining Group
Computational Bioscience Program
University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

Two Existential Threats to Biomedical Text Mining...and How to Address Them with Natural Language Processing
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
JOSEPH ALLISON, PhD
Bioinformatic Scientist
SomaLogic, Inc.
Colorado, USA


A Story of Proteomic Statistical Process Control at SomaLogic
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
OLUWATOSIN OLUWADARE, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Bachelor of Innovation
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado
USA

3D Chromosome and Genome Structure Modeling 
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 6, 2019
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
JOYCE C. HO, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Emory University
Georgia, USA

Developing an Evidence Matching Framework Using Web-based Medical Literature
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
Joint Presentation:

NIMISHA SCHNEIDER, PhD
QuartzBio, part of
Precision for Medicine
Maryland, USA

TED FOSS, PhD
Director, Systems and Data Integration
Precision For Medicine
QuartzBio, part of Precision for Medicine
Maryland, USA

Coupling Data-Driven and Mechanistic Modeling Approaches Through the Application of a Scalable, Knowledge-Driven Framework and High-Throughput Public Omics Data Sources
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
JUSTIN GUINNEY, PhD
VP, Computational Oncology
Sage Bionetworks
Affiliate Associate Professor
University of Washington
Director, DREAM Challenges
Washington, USA

The Model-to-Data Paradigm: Overcoming Data Access Barriers in Biomedical Competitions

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
06:00 pm 06:30 pm Open Ballroom divider wall, move chairs and boards to accommodate Poster Session
06:30 pm 08:30 pm Poster Session
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SATURDAY – December 7, 2019
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
HEINRICH RÖDER, PhD

Biodesix, Inc.
Colorado, USA

Development of Clinically Relevant Tests from Human Serum Samples: A Look at the Circulating Proteome
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, Ph.D.
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Data Centric Solutions
IBM T.J. Watson Research
and
Chief Science Officer
IBM Research UK

Intelligent Simulations - Incorporating AI into Computational Simulations
12:00 pm 12:15 pm Closing Raffle and Awards

 


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