MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday November 7, 2025
10th Annual MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Smilow Center for Translational Research
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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The 2025 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference will again be held at the Smilow Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The poster session will be held in the Colket Translational Research Building at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The conference is a live, in-person event.
There is NO onsite registration. There will not be a remote option.
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Registration*
Regular Registration $100
Student/Trainee Registration $ 50
Discount Parking $ 10
*There will be a small service fee associated with online registration.
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Presenters
Keynote Speakers - 2025
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Department of Systems Biology
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Program for Mathematical Genomics
Columbia University
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Division of Computational Pathology
Invited Speakers - 2025
Assistant Professor of Biology and Bioengineering
Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
Caltech
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Systems Biology
Geisel School of Medicine
Dartmouth College
Assistant Professor
Materials and Biochemistry
Rutgers University
Associate Professor
Genetics
Icahn School of Medical Sciences
Mt. Sinai
Poster Session
Call for Posters
​​​​The 2025 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference features today’s leaders in the field of bioinformatics. Authors are invited to submit posters topics from all areas of bioinformatics, computational and systems biology, and genomics on algorithm, software, database, and analysis of genetic or genomic data, including but not limited to following topics:
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Imaging and Spatial Biology
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Integrative Analyses of Biological Data on Multiple Scales
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Diagnostic Focus on Genetic and Genomic Data
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Machine Learning Methods Applied to Single- and Multi-level 'omics' Data
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Structural Variants and Non-coding Variants
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Visualization and Visual Analytics of Biological and Health Data
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Epigenetics of Human Diseases
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Computational Systems Biology and Biological Network Modeling
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Epistasis of Genetic Variants
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Population and Comparative Genomics
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Single-cell Sequencing and Analyses
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Translational Bioinformatics
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Imputation of Genomic and Epigenomic Data
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Genome and Sequence Analysis
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Bioinformatics Methods Development
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Genotype-Phenotype Relationships
Poster Submissions Due: September 15, 2025
Decisions Will Be Announced: October 3, 2025


Location: The Poster Session will be held in the lobby of the Colket Translational Research Building, at 3501 Civic Center Blvd.
Poster Lightning Round Session:
The posters receiving the highest rankings will be selected to present at the lightning round session during the conference.
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Trainee Poster Awards
Students & Trainees will again be eligible for awards for the 2025 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference. Authors who receive the highest rankings from the poster review will be selected.
Trainee award winners will be featured in a special session during the conference on Friday November 7, 2025. Three (3) awards of $250 will be presented. To be eligible for Student & Trainee Abstract Awards, the recipient must be the primary author of the Abstract. For questions related to posters, contact Donna Vito
Organizers
2025 Conference Chair
Derek Oldridge, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Director
Immunogenetics Laboratory
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2025 Conference Co-Chair
Professor of Biostatistics
Chair, Graduate Program in Biostatistics
Member, Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology
Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania
Mingyao Li, PhD
Conference Committee
Professor of Genetics,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Laura Almasy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Division of Human Genetics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rebecca Ganetzky, MD
Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Priya Sivaramakrishnan, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics,
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Center for Single Cell Biology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kai Tan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Department of Genetics
University of Pennsylvania
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Zigue Gao, PhD
Director of Bioinformatics Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Associate Professor
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Deanne Taylor, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor
Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
Associate Director, Clinical Informatics and Genomics for Penn Medicine BioBank University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Tristan Hayeck, PhD
Anurag Verma, PhD
Associate Professor
Computational Immunology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bo Li, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
College of Science and Technology
Temple University
Xinghua Mindy Shi, PhD
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kai Wang, PhD
Executive Director
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Francis West Lewis Endowed Chair
Founding Director
Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Yi Xing, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Wanding Zhou, PhD
Conference Operations
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Donna Vito - Outreach Manager
Ariana Downs - Outreach Specialist
Donna Bassler- Project Coordinator
Tom Outland - Office Coordinator
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Presented annually by the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI), the MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference brings together recognized leaders in bioinformatics as well as emerging voices in the field. Conference attendance has grown significantly with each successive year bringing in researchers from around the world.