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ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE



Links within this page*: DREAM Schedule | RSG Schedule | Poster Schedules
*Proposed Programs. Agendas subject to change.

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DREAM Schedule

Saturday - Day 1 – December 8, 2018 - Click here to view DREAM abstracts
Go directly to: Sunday, Dec 9 - Monday, Dec 10
START
TIME
END
TIME
SESSION
TYPE
REGISTRATION
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location:  Science Building, top of the stairs
All DREAM Day talks to occur in Schwartz Lecture Hall
8:40 am 9:00 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks. Pablo Meyer and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Submitted Abstracts
Chair: Pablo Meyer
9:00 am 9:15 am Mi Yang
Target functional similarity based workflows for drug synergy prediction and stratification
9:15 am 9:30 am Lenore Cowen
The Disease Module Identification DREAM Challenge: An Update
9:30 am 9:45 am Michael Banf
Enhancing gene regulatory network inference through data integration with markov random fields
9:45 am 10:25 am Keynote - Daphne Koller
A fireside chat
10:25 am 10:55 am Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
Challenge Updates
Chair: Jim Costello
10:55 am 11:10 am Andrew Gentles
Tumor Deconvolution DREAM Challenge
11:10 am 11:25 am Pei Wang
A precision FDA NCI-CPTAC Multiomics Mislabeling Challenge
11:25 am 11:40 am Geoffrey Siwo
Malaria Challenge
11:40 am 11:55 am Anna Cichonska
IDG-DREAM Drug-Kinase Binding Prediction Challenge
11:55 am 1:10 pm Keyvan Farahani
Justin Guenney

Percio S. Gulko
David Gutman
Amber Simpson
The Challenge of Imaging Challenges: A Panel Discussion
1:10 pm 2:25 pm Lunch on Own
Multi-Targeting Drug DREAM Challenge
Chair: Justin Guenney
2:25 pm 3:05 pm Keynote - Ross Cagan
A Fly DREAM
3:05 pm 3:25 pm Avner Schlessinger
Challenge Overview Talk
3:25 pm 3:45 pm Minji Jeon
Best Performance Talk
3:45 pm 4:10 pm Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
Single-Cell Transcriptomics Challenge
Chair: Gustavo Stolovitzky
4:10 pm 4:30 pm Shengbao Suo
Revealing the critical regulators of cell identity in the mouse cell atlas
4:30 pm 4:50 pm Nikolaus Rajewsky
Single-Cell Transcriptomics Overview
4:50 pm 5:00 pm Pablo Meyer
Jovan Tanevski
Best Performer Announcements and Scoring Approach
5:00 pm 5:20 pm Thin Nguyen
Best Performer Talk 1
5:20 pm 5:40 pm Peng Qiu
Best Performer Talk 2
5:40 pm 6:00 pm Chang Shu
Xiaoyu Liang

Best Performer Talk 3
6:00 pm 7:00 pm Dream Reception and Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
7:00 pm   Adjourn


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RSG Schedule

Sunday – Day 2 – December 9, 2018 - Click here to view RSG abstracts
Go directly to: Saturday, Dec 8 (DREAM)Monday, Dec 10
START
TIME
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TIME
SESSION
TYPE
REGISTRATION
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location:  Science Building, top of the stairs
All RSG Day talks to occur in Farkas Auditorium
9:00 am 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am 10:00 am Keynote - Aravinda Chakravarti
10:00 am 10:15 am Anat Kreimer, Fumitaka Inoue, Tal Ashuah, Nadav Ahituv and Nir Yosef
Massively parallel characterization of regulatory dynamics during neural induction
10:15 am 10:30 am Tobias Zehnder, Philipp Benner and Martin Vingron
Predicting enhancers in mammalian genomes using supervised hidden Markov models
10:30 am 10:45 am William Lai, Kylie Bocklund, Kate Mistretta and B Franklin Pugh
Methods of defining “success” in ChIP-seq/exo experiments
10:45 am 11:15 am Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
11:15 am 11:30 am Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani, Rupa Sridharan and Sushmita Roy
Incorporating noisy prior networks for estimating latent transcription factor activities and inferring genome-scale regulatory network in yeast and mammalian systems
11:30 am 11:45 am Amir Alavi, Matthew Ruffalo, Aiyappa Parvangada, Zhilin Huang and Ziv Bar-Joseph
scQuery: a web server for comparative analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data
11:45 am 12:30 pm Keynote - Shirley Liu
12:30 pm 2:00 pm Lunch on Own
2:00 pm 2:15 pm Special Session Welcome
2:15 pm 3:00 pm Keynote - Peter Kharchenko
Analysis of transcriptional dynamics with single-cell transcriptomics
3:00 pm 3:15 pm Florian Wagner and Itai Yanai
Moana: A Robust and Scalable Cell Type Classification Framework for Single-cell RNA-Seq Data
3:15 pm 3:30 pm Joseph A. Wayman, Diep Nguyen, Peter DeWeirdt, Bryan D. Bryson and Emily R. Miraldi
Benchmarked methods for transcriptional regulatory network inference from single-cell RNA-seq data
3:30 pm 3:45 pm Gunsagar Gulati, Shaheen Sikandar, Daniel Wesche, Anjan Bharadwaj, Anoop Manjunath, Francisco Ilagan, Mark Berger, Michael Clarke and Aaron Newman
Robust Reconstruction of Single Cell Differentiation Trajectories using CytoTRACE
3:45 pm 4:15 pm Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
4:15 pm 4:30 pm Qian Zhu, Sheel Shah, Ruben Dries, Long Cai and Guo-Cheng Yuan
Decomposing spatially dependent and cell type specific contributions to cellular heterogeneity
4:30 pm 4:45 pm Nelson Johansen and Gerald Quon
Characterizing cell type-specific responses to stimuli using single cell RNA sequencing
4:45 pm 5:30 pm Keynote - Miriam Merad
5:30 pm 7:00 pm Reception with poster viewing
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
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Monday – Day 3 – December 10, 2018 - Click here to view RSG Abstracts
Go directly to: Saturday, Dec 8 (DREAM)Sunday, Dec 9
START
TIME
END
TIME
SESSION
TYPE
REGISTRATION
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location:  Science Building, top of the stairs
All RSG Day talks to occur in Farkas Auditorium
9:00 am 9:15 am Special Session Welcome
9:15 am 10:00 am Keynote - Adam Siepel
An evolutionary framework for measuring epigenomic information and estimating cell-type specific fitness consequences
10:00 am 10:15 am Akpeli Nordor, Martin Aryee and Geoffrey Siwo
Predicting interactions between small molecules and genome editing technologies
10:15 am 10:30 am Gregory Nuel, Flaminia Zane, Andrea Rau and Florence Jaffrezic
Clustering of Directed Acyclic Graphs in Systems Biology
10:30 am 10:45 am Peter Koo, Praveen Anand, Steffan Paul and Sean Eddy
Inferring Sequence-Structure Preferences of RNA-Binding Proteins with Convolutional Residual Networks
10:45 am 11:15 am Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
11:15 am 11:30 am Jingyi Jessica Li, Guo-Liang Chew and Mark Biggin
Principles of cis-translational control by general mRNA features in a yeast, a plant and a mammal
11:30 am 11:45 am Svetlana Shabalina
Complexity and evolution of the mammalian transcriptome: the architecture of alternative transcription and splicing
11:45 am 12:30 pm Keynote - Itai Yanai
Single-cell and spatial gene expression analysis of tumorigenesis
12:30 pm 2:00 pm Lunch on Own
2:00 pm 2:45 pm Keynote - Bing Ren
Functional Organization of the Human Genome
2:45 pm 3:00 pm Shahin Mohammadi, Jose Davila-Velderrain and Manolis Kellis
Systems biology of schizophrenia at single-cell resolution
3:00 pm 3:15 pm Federica Eduati, Ramesh Utharala, Patricia Jaaks, Mathew Garnett, Thorsten Cramer, Christoph Merten and Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Combining microfluidics and mathematical modelling for prioritisation of personalised cancer treatments from patient biopsies
3:15 pm 3:30 pm Lu Cheng, Siddharth Ramchandran, Tommi Vatanen, Juho Timonen, Niina Lietzen, Riitta Lahesmaa, Aki Vehtari and Harri Lähdesmäki
An additive Gaussian process regression model for interpretable probabilistic non-parametric analysis of longitudinal data
3:30 pm 4:00 pm Coffee Break with Posters
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor
4:00 pm 4:15 pm Jonathan Warrell, Daifeng Wang, Shuang Liu, Hyejung Wong, Xu Shi, Fabio Navarro, Declan Clarke, Mengting Gu, Prashant Emani and Mark Gerstein
Interpretable Deep-learning for Multilevel Models of Psychiatric Disorders
4:15 pm 4:30 pm Hatice Osmanbeyoglu, Fumiko Shimizu, Angela Rynne-Vidal, Tsz-Lun Yeung, Petar Jelinic, Samuel Mok, Gabriela Chiosis, Douglas Levine and Christina Leslie
Chromatin-informed inference of transcriptional programs in gynecologic and basal breast cancers
4:30 pm 5:15 pm Keynote - Ana Pombo
5:30 pm 7:00 pm Reception with poster viewing
Location: Smilow Cafe and Science Building 1st Floor

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CONTACT



Bel Hanson
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Tel: 1-571-293-0286


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VENUE & ACCOMMODATIONS



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REGISTER



Registration to the Youth Bioinformatics Symposium is open to any interested middle school and high school student. A basic knowledge of biology is helpful but not required.

Registration is free but MANDATORY for both the student and the parent/guardian.

Children under 18 MUST be accompanied by their parent/guardian.  Parents/guardians will need to register separately for this event.

Registration is open to 150 Students and 150 Parents/Guardians.  All additional registrants will be placed on a wait list and contacted closer to the event.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Program Schedule:

A parent or guardian is required to remain with the registered student throughout the day. To view the entire itinerary please review the information here.
Parking: Please review Location & Parking for event and parking locations. There is about a 5-10 minute walk from Mason Pond Parking Deck to Innovation Hall. Please plan accordingly. Food: A small morning and afternoon snack break as well as lunch will be provided for the students. There are also several food outlets available, for individual purchases, inside of the Johnson Center.
Workshops: All workshops will take place in Innovation Hall. For more information regarding the workshops please review the information here
Please start your morning off by stopping by the registration desk, between 9am-10am, in the lower lobby of Innovation Hall to pick up your badge.

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KEY DATES



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CODE OF CONDUCT



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