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2024 Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Retreat

Biltwell Event Center, Indianapolis, IN

Welcome to the 2024 CCBB Retreat!

The retreat will be held at the Biltwell Event Center in downtown Indianapolis on Friday, Oct. 25 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The scientific session will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and breakfast and lunch will be provided. The retreat will conclude with a reception. The scientific sessions include a keynote lecture by Hongyu Zhao, PhD, from Yale University, who is the awardee of the Keith Dunker Lectureship this year. Other sessions include new faculty presentations, poster presentation and student presentations.

 

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Catherine McMillan (catmcmil@iu.edu) or Jill Reiter (jireiter@iu.edu).


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2024 CCBB Retreat registration is now open! Please register before Friday, October 18th.

Retreat Agenda

CCBB 2024 Retreat Agenda

Biltwell Event Center, Indianapolis, IN

Friday, October 25, 2024
Time Session Presenter Title
8:00-9:00 Breakfast / Networking
9:00-9:10 Welcome and introduction Jun Wan/Amber Mosley/Yunlong Liu
9:10-10:10 Faculty presentation Robbee Wedow (Purdue) Advances in Sociogenomics
Selena Wang (Biostatistics and Health Data Science) Inference-based Statistical Network Analysis Uncovers Star-like Brain Functional Architectures for Internalizing Psychopathology in Children
Xiaoqian Wang (Purdue) Integrating Human Knowledge in Machine Learning Models and Explanations
Matt Tegtmeyer (Purdue) High-dimensional phenotyping to define the genetic basis of cellular morphology
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Faculty presentation Zhana Duren (MMGE) Integrative analysis of single cell multi-omics data
Faculty presentation Yan Zhuang (Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) Empowering Patient-Centric Healthcare Data Management through Blockchain Technology: Enhancing Data Interoperability, Security, and Integrity
11:00-11:45 Best paper presentation Yuan Liu (Leng Han Lab) Expanding PROTACtable genome universe of E3 ligases (Nature Communication)
Ateeq M. Khaliq (Ashiq Masood Lab) Spatial transcriptomic analysis of primary and metastatic pancreatic cancers highlights tumor microenvironmental heterogeneity (Nature Genetics)
Shiwei Liu (Kwangsik Nho Lab) Plasma miRNAs across the Alzheimer's disease continuum: Relationship to central biomarkers (Alzheimer's & Dementia)
11:45-1:15 Lunch / Poster session
1:15-1:45 Faculty presentation Rakesh Shiradkar (Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) Multi-modal imaging and AI for precision medicine
Tae-Hwi Linus Schwantes-An (MMGE) Indiana Biobank: a rich source of Clinical and Genetic data of Hoosiers enabling precision medicine
1:45-2:00 System demo Charles Brandt (SCA) Indiana Biobank Data Management System
2:00-3:00 Dunker lectureship Hongyu Zhao (Yale University) Disease gene identification and risk prediction through diverse cohorts and data sources
3:00-6:00 Closing remarks, Award, Reception