POSTER PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Odd numbered posters will be presented on Tuesday, May 21 from 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in Varsity II & III
Even numbered posters will be presented on Wednesday, May 22 from 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in Varsity II & III
Posters can be put up any time after 8:30 on the day they are to be presented and will be taken down at the end of each day.
| # | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | MRI Image Synthesis for the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease using Deep Learning | Neeyanth Kopparapu |
| 2 | ADAR-mediated RNA editing and neuropsychiatric disorders | Noel-Marie Plonski, Caroline Nitirahardjo, Ain Shajihan and Helen Piontkivska |
| 3 | Role of ADAR-mediated RNA editing in molecular evolution of arboviruses | Heather Milliken Mercer, Noel-Marie Plonski and Helen Piontkivska |
| 4 | Amylotrophic lateral sclerosis-like Motor Impairment in Prion Diseases | Eden Teferedegn, Cemal Un and Dawit Tesfaye |
| 5 | Structural Insight on Bio-remediation of Emerging Pollutants: A Modelling-Based structure-function Study | Pravindra Kumar |
| 6 | Conformer and pharmacophore based identification of peptidomimetic inhibitors of chikungunya protease. | Shailly Tomar |
| 7 | Genome-Scale Multilabel Prediction for Tissue-specific Annotation of Long Non-coding RNAs | Aljohara Almulhim, Swapna Vidhur Daulatabad, Vachik S. Dave, Felipe Wendt Porto, Mohammad Hasan and Sarath Chandra Janga |
| 8 | A method for detecting and correcting under-clustered gene families | Akshay Yadav, David Fernández-Baca and Steven Cannon |
| 9 | Characterization of clonal evolution in microsatellite unstable metastatic cancers through multi-regional tumor sequencing | Russell Bonneville, Lianbo Yu, Julie Reeser, Thuy Dao, Michele Wing, Hui-Zi Chen, Melanie Krook, Jharna Miya, Eric Samorodnitsky, Amy Smith, Nicholas Nowacki and Sameek Roychowdhury |
| 10 | Modulation of the Human Gut Microbiome by Curcumin | Vraj Patel and Michael Burns |
| 11 | An Improved Species-level Taxonomic Classification Method for Marker Gene Sequences | Xiang Gao, Huaiying Lin, Kashi Revanna and Qunfeng Dong |
| 12 | Analysis of popular computational codon usage models and their association with ribosome footprinting-implied translationally slow sequence positions | Gabriel Wright, Anabel Rodriguez, Jun Li, Patricia Clark, Tijana Milenković and Scott Emrich |
| 13 | MitoMut: an efficient approach to detecting mitochondrial DNA deletions from paired-end next-generation sequencing data | C. Shane Elder and Catherine Welsh |
| 14 | Fama: a computational tool for comparative analysis of shotgun metagenomic data | Alexey Kazakov and Pavel Novichkov |
| 15 | Assessing applicability of web-based algorithms for next generation sequencing coupled high-throughput biomolecule screening research | Momoko Tajiri |
| 16 | Constructing a mitochondrial sequence profiling tool (mitoKmer) for identification of eukaryotic species in shotgun metagenomic samples. | Mark Mammel, Padmini Ramachandran, Monica Pava-Ripoll, Andrea Ottesen, Susan Leonard and Jayanthi Gangiredla |
| 17 | Functional prediction of hypothetical proteins in shrimp white spot syndrome virus | Padmanabhan Mahadevan and Paige Harris |
| 18 | Khalique Newaz, Gabriel Wright, Jacob Piland, Jun Li, Patricia Clark, Scott Emrich, and Tijana Milenkovic | Network analysis of synonymous codon usage |
| 19 | Operons as a Tractable Model for Evolutionary Complexity | Huy Nguyen and Iddo Friedberg |
| 20 | Quantitative Phenotype Portal for Animal Model Selection | Matthew Hoffman, Jennifer R. Smith, Shur-Jen Wang, Stan Laulederkind, Monika Tutaj, Marek Tutaj, G. Thomas Hayman, Jyothi Thota, Elizabeth Bolton, Jeffrey L. de Pons, Harika Nalabolu, Melinda Dwinell and Mary Shimoyama |
| 21 | Epitomy – A comprehensive database and transcriptomics browser for exploring human and mouse epitranscriptomes across cell types | Patrick Stevens, Sasank Vemuri, Huzaifa Hassan and Sarath Janga |
| 22 | The genetic architecture of expression and splicing in African ancestry populations | Ryan Schubert, Paul Okoro, Amy Luke, Lara Dugas and Heather Wheeler |
| 23 | Identification of Gram-Positive Bacteria Commonly Found in Dietary Supplements Using a Novel kmer Database | Jayanthi Gangiredla, Mark Mammel, Tammy Barnaba and Carmen Tartera |
| 24 | Zero-Inflated Random Forests for Single Cell RNA-Seq Modeling | Daniel Conn, Kirby Johnson, Emery Bresnick and Sunduz Keles |
| 25 | Identify transgenic alleles and locations in plants using a Nanopore sequencing technology | Chi Zhang |
| 26 | Research Autopsy Demonstrates Branching Evolution of Resistance Mechanisms in Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor | Anoosha Paruchuri, Hui-Zi Chen, Russell Bonneville, Julie Reeser, Michele Wing, Melanie Krook, Eric Samorodnitsky, Jharna Miya, Thuy Dao, Amy Smith, Aharon Freud, Patricia Allenby and Sameek Roychowdhury |
| 27 | Pathway-Regularized Matrix Factorization | Aaron Baker and Anthony Gitter |
| 28 | Bioinformatics Analysis of Metabolomics Data Unveiled Critical Metabolomics Signature in Breast Cancer | Fadhl Alakwaa and Lana Garmire |
| 29 | Transcriptional biomarkers of survival in osteosarcoma correlate to distinct DNA methylation networks. | Lauren Mills, Logan Spector, Subree Subramanian and Jaime Modiano |
| 30 | CIRCULAR PEARSON CORRELATION USING COSINE SERIES EXPANSION | Shih-Gu Huang, Andrey Gritsenko, Martin Lindquist and Moo Chung |
| 31 | Regulatory network-based comparative analysis of single-cell RNA-seq datasets | Viswesh Periyasamy, Katherine Mueller, Divya Sinha, Sunnie Grace McCalla, Benjamin Steyer, Pawan Shahi, Rasa Valiauga, Kimberly Edwards, Cole Bacig, Stephanie Steltzer, Sandhya Srinivasan, Amr Abdeen, Evan Cory, Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani, Bikash Pattnaik, Krishanu Saha, David Gamm and Sushmita Roy |
| 32 | Integrative Analysis for Leveraging Islet Chromatin Accessibility of Founder Diversity Outbred (DO) Mice To Interpret Diabetic GWAS SNPs | Chenyang Dong, Mark Keller, Shane Simonett, Gary Churchill, Alan Attie and Sunduz Keles |
| 33 | Comparative Analysis of Alternative Splicing Profiles In T-Helper Cell Subsets | Deepak Kumar Lakshmipathi, Mir Quoseena, Benjamin Ulrich, Mark Kaplan and Sarath Janga |
| 34 | Identification of informative features in computational prediction of high-resolution Hi-C interaction matrices | Shilu Zhang, Deborah Chasman, Sara Knaack and Sushmita Roy |
| 35 | Direct RNA-sequencing of human cell lines for transcriptome-wide mapping and annotation of 3’ tails at single molecule resolution | Quoseena Mir, Aniruddhan Govindaraman, Mansi Srivastava, Raja Shekar Varma Kadamuri, Rajneesh Srivastava and Sarath Janga |
| 36 | Multi-cancer Data-driven Prediction of Synthetic Lethality and Response to Cancer Treatment | Shaoli Das, Xiang Deng, Kristin Valdez, Kevin Camphausen and Uma Shankavaram |
| 37 | MINDFUL: A Method to Identify Novel and Diverse Signals with Fast, Unsupervised Learning | Mallika Parulekar and Leelavati Narlikar |
| 38 | A Reward System Polygenic Risk Score for Predicting Obesity and Substance Use Disorders | Kristen Stevens, Daniel Marks, Joyanna Hansen and Shannon McWeeney |
| 39 | Signatures and predictions of specialized metabolism genes in Solanum lycopersicum | Bethany Moore, Peipei Wang, Pengxiang Fan, Bryan Leong, Craig Schenck, Aaron Lee, Robert Last, Cornelius Barry, Shin-Han Shiu and Yann-Ru Lou |
| 40 | The effect of the choice of network inference method on the structure and function of the resulting gene co-expression network | Qi Li, Katrina Button-Simons, Michael Ferdig and Tijana Milenković |
| 41 | A cell adhesion gene interaction network characterizes lupus patients in glomerular RNAseq | Felix Eichinger, Narayanan B. Perumal, Rajasree Menon, Edgar Otto, Matthias Kretzler and Celine C. Berthier |
| 42 | Imputing the Expression of Unmeasured Genes In Transcriptomes Across Studies, Platforms, and Technologies |
Jake Canfield |
| 43 | Co-expression network analysis of RNA-Seq data reveals highly correlated genes responsible for host-pathogen interactions | Surabhi Naik |
| 44 | Classifying T cell activity with convolutional neural networks | Zijie Wang, Alex J Walsh, Melissa C Skala and Anthony Gitter |
| 45 | IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS IN IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS | Sadik Kaur |
| 46 | IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS IN SJOGREN’S SYNDROME | Sadik Khuder, Nezam Altorok and Oluwatobi Lasisi |
| 47 | Identification of Vaccine Efficacy Associated Microbial Features using Compositional Analysis of Gut Microbiomes | Hayden Brochu, Elise Smith, Fang Yang, Michelle Carlson, Lynn Law, Scott Hansen, Louis Picker, Michael Gale Jr. and Xinxia Peng |
| 48 | Inferring Complex Phylogenetic Networks More Efficiently and Accurately | Cora Allen-Coleman and Cécile Ané |
| 49 | Generation and Analysis of a Schizophrenia Proteomic Signature Using GLSig | James Reigle, Guillaume Labilloy, Robert McCullomsmith, Jaroslaw Meller and Adam Funk |
| 50 | Kaleidoscope: A New Bioinformatics Pipeline Application for in Silico Hypothesis Testing of Gene Expression Changes in Severe Mental Illness | Khaled Alganem, Scott Miruzzi, Jarek Meller and Robert McCullumsmith |
| 51 | MicroRNA- lncRNA target analysis on the multiple sclerosis susceptible genotype and co-expression lncRNA networks constructing. | Samira Rahimi Rad and Shima Rahimirad |
| 52 | A combination of DNA sequence and epigenetic modifications accurately predicts genome-wide Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor binding sites | Wenjie Qi and Sudin Bhattacharya |
| 53 | Evolution of nucleotide composition of the Mid-Range Inhomogeneous(MRI) sequences in the human genome | Rajan Paudel and Alexei Fedorov |
| 54 | Inter-Assembly Remapping Pipeline for Transposable Elements | Ethan Holleman, Jasen Jackson, Henry Wittich, Zain Anwar and Howard Laten |
| 55 | FM-HighLD: A method for Single and Multi-Trait Fine-Mapping for Variants in High LD with Integrated Functional Annotation | Rene Welch and Sunduz Keles |
| 56 | Identification of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Adenoviruses | Rachel Cacace and Padmanabhan Mahadevan |
| 57 | Evolution of Genomic Domain Content in Metazoa | Yuting Xiao, Maureen Stolzer and Dannie Durand |
| 58 | Inferring competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) interactions in cancer | Ziynet Nesibe Kesimoglu and Serdar Bozdag |
| 59 | Optimizing Gene Predictors in Diverse Population | Jennifer Takamura, Elyse Geoffroy and Heather Wheeler |
| 60 | A mechanistic modeling approach for interpreting transcriptome dynamics during the immune response in the model plant Arabidopsis | Xiaotong Liu, Chad Myers and Fumiaki Katagiri |
| 61 | OntoMate: a text-mining tool aiding curation at the Rat Genome Database | Jyothi Thota, Marek Tutaj, Jeff de Pons, Jennifer R. Smith, Shur-Jen Wang, Monika Tutaj, Elizabeth Bolton, Matthew Hoffman, Stan Laulederkind, G. Thomas Hayman and Mary Shimoyama |
| 62 | SwiftOrtho: a Fast, Memory-Efficient, Multiple Genome Orthology Classifier | Xiao Hu and Iddo Friedberg |
| 63 | Learning Drug Function from Chemical Structure | Jesse Meyer, Shengchao Liu, Ian Miller, Anthony Gitter and Joshua Coon |
| 64 | Expansion of the Rat Genome Database Pathway Ontology (PW) – mapping Reactome terms to PW as synonyms and new terms | G. Thomas Hayman, Jennifer R. Smith, Monika Tutaj, Lucy Lu Wang, John H. Gennari and Mary Shimoyama |
| 65 | CAZyme Gene Cluster (CGCs) predictions in bacteria reveal physically linked carbohydrate utilization genes that use different transporter systems across bacterial phyla | Catherine Ausland and Yanbin Yin |
| 66 | InterViewer, a Cytoscape-based viewer for displaying interactions between selected sets of proteins | Marek Tutaj, Jyothi Thota, Jeff de Pons, Jennifer R. Smith, Stan Laulederkind, G. Thomas Hayman, Victoria Petri, Shur-Jen Wang and Mary Shimoyama |
| 67 | Orphan Genes Shared by Pathogenic Genomes Are More Associated with Bacterial Pathogenicity | Yanbin Yin and Sarah Entwistle |
| 68 | Identifying self-renewing subpopulation of human Leukemia stem cells using single-cell RNA-seq analysis | Yoonkyu Lee, Klara Noble-Orcutt, Chad Myers and Zohar Sachs |
| 69 | Identifying Temporal High Throughput Gene Expression Data Sets for Comparative Transcriptome Analysis | Shawn Oliai and Guenter Tusch |
| 70 | Long Intergenic Non-coding RNA Profiles of Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma: A Novel Prognostic Biomarker | Suman Ghosal, Shaoli Das, Ying Pang, Melissa Gonzales, Thanh-Truc Huynh, David Taieb, Joakim Crona, Uma Shankavaram and Karel Pacak |
| 71 | Evolution of Recombination: RecBCD and AddAB in bacteria | Deepti Gurung and Robert Blumenthal |
| 72 | Genome Scale Metabolic Network Reconstruction of Thermotoga sp. Strain RQ7. | Jyotshana Gautam, Ashok Maharjan and Zhaohui Xu |
| 73 | Antibiotic resistance prediction models for Gram-negative pathogens from whole genome sequencing data | Pj Van Camp, David Haslam and Alexey Porollo |
| 74 | DoubletDecon: A Computational Approach for the Removal of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Doublets | Erica DePasquale, Daniel Schnell, Pieter-Jan Van Camp, H. Leighton Grimes and Nathan Salomonis |
| 75 | Characterizing RV144 vaccine priming in HIV breakthrough infections through machine learning applications | Thembi Mdluli, Dominic Paquin-Proulx, Bonnie Slike, Gina Donofrio, Sandhia Vasan, Rob O’connell, Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, Margaret Ackerman, Robert Gramzinski, Jerome Kim, Nelson L. Michael, Merlin L. Robb, Michael Eller, Shelly Krebs and Morgane Rolland |
| 76 | Functional analysis of oral biofilm during periodontitis progression using microbial metatranscriptome approach | Melline Noronha, Renato Casarin, Thiago Rangel, Mabelle Monteiro and Marcio Casati |
| 77 | Modeling degrees of genetic redundancy among duplicate genes with machine learning | Siobhan Cusack, Fanrui Meng, Peipei Wang, Bethany Moore, Melissa Lehti-Shiu and Shin-Han Shiu |
| 78 | Machine learning can characterize biogeography on a global scale using port microbiomes | Ryan Ghannam, Laura Schaerer, Timothy Butler and Stephen Techtmann |
| 79 | An automated pipeline to track genomic variation over time in a bacteriophage infecting Vibrio cholerae | Angus Angermeyer and Kimberley Seed |
| 81 | Assessing Selective Pressure in Fasciola hepatica | Olukayode Daramola, Jane Hodgkinson and Steve Paterson |
| 82 | Potential genetic biomarkers for dilated cardiomyopathy | Ammar Eljack and Sadik Khuder |
| 83 | Comparison of three libraries for 10x Genomics single cell immune TCR repertoire profiling | Yuan Qi, Jin Seon Im and Xiaoping Su |
| 84 | Investigating the altered transcriptional and epigenetic programs of TAZ-CAMTA1 and YAP-TFE3 gene fusions driving sarcoma tumorigenesis and metastasis | Michael Chimenti, Nicole Merritt, Keith Garcia, Dushyandi Rajendran, Zhen-Yuan Lin, Xiaomeng Zhang, Katrina Mitchell, Colleen Fullenkamp, Anne-Claude Gingras, Kieran Harvey and Munir Tanas |
| 85 | Broadening the Impact of Bioinformatics in Research and Education | Jessica Holmes, Jenny Drnevich, Lois Hoyer and Christopher Fields |
| 86 | Hierarchical cell type classification using mass, heterogeneous RNA-seq data from human primary cells | Matthew Bernstein and Colin Dewey |
| 87 | A cell-based probabilistic approach unveils the concerted action of miRNAs | Shelly Mahlab-Aviv, Nathan Linial and Michal Linial |
| 88 | Network-based integration of transcriptomic, proteomic, phospho-proteomic and acetylome datasets in M. truncatula | Junha Shin, Harald Marx, Catie Minogue, Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani, Deborah Chasman, Jean-Michel Ané, Joshua Coon, Michael Sussman and Sushmita Roy |
| 89 | A predictive classifier to distinguish nuclear receptor binding sites involved in hepatic Cytochrome P450 gene regulation | Omar Kana and Sudin Bhattacharya |
| 90 | Deciphering the regulatory network controlling nitrogen fixation in plants | Sara Knaack, Daniel Conde, Lucas Gontijo Silva Maia, Thomas Irving, Kelly Balmant, Matthew Crook, Christopher Dervinis, Ryan Folk, Heather Kates, Wendell Pereira, Robert Guralnick, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Jean-Michel Ane, Matias Kirst and Sushmita Roy |
| 91 | miRDriver: A Tool to Infer Copy Number Derived Gene miRNA Networks in Cancer | Banabithi Bose and Serdar Bozdag |
| 92 | Stage-specific marker discovery in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes with single cell RNA sequencing. | Xing Li, Sherri Biendarra and Timothy Nelson |
| 93 |
PhyloPen: An Interactive Browsing and Editing Tool for Phylogenetic Trees |
Anthony Wehrer, Curtis Lisle and Charles Hughes |
| 94 |
Genomic Features Distinguishing a Defensive Ant Mutualist and Free-living Related Bacteria |
Jennifer Bratburd and Cameron Currie |
| 95 |
Isometric scaling of virus growth kinetics across the domains of life |
Herry Jin and John Yin |
| 96 |
Complete Genome Sequence of a USA100 MRSA Strain: Lessons Learned Using Both Illumina and Nanopore Data for de novo Assembly |
George Chlipala, Zhengdeng Lei, Pinal Kanabar, Kevin Kunstman, Koh Okamoto, Kyle J. Popovich, Stefan Green and Mark Maienschein-Cline |
| 97 |
Rice Genes Prioritization for Cold Tolerance Using Random Walk with Restart on Multiplex Heterogeneous Network |
Cagatay Dursun, Naoki Shimoyama, Mary Shimoyama, Michael Schlappi and Serdar Bozdag |
| 98 |
Creating and characterizing vocal fold microbiota in gnotobiotic mice |
Ran An |
| 99 |
An integrative computational modeling approach to identify repurposable metabolic drug targets in CD4+ T cells |
Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Bailee Lichter, Robert Moore, Sydney Townsend, Alex Ciurej, Ab Rauf Shah, Matteo Barberis and Tomas Helikar |
| 100 |
Gene Prediction and Genome Functional Annotation of the Almond ‘Nonpareil’ genome |
Wilberforce Zachary Ouma, Tea Meulia, Thomas Gradziel and Jonathan Fresnedo Ramirez |