MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday October 30, 2026
11th Annual MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Friday October 30, 2026
The 2026 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.
Lecture Hall
Smilow Center for Translational Research
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Poster Session
Colket Translational Research Building
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3501 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Registration
Regular Registration $150
Student Registration $ 75
Discount Parking $ 10
Presenters
Keynote Speakers - 2026
Professor
Computational and Systems Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
CSB Program Director; Uncas (1923) and Helen Whitaker Professor; Extramural Member of KIICR;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Member of the Broad Institute
Invited Speakers - 2025
Assistant Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Associate Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Senior Investigator
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch
National Institutes of Health
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
Associate Professor
Psychiatric Genomics
Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
Assistant Professor
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Division of Integrative Genomics
Duke University
Research Associate
Computational Biology
Director, Spaceflight Research/Mason Lab
Weill Cornell Medical College
Staff Scientist; Fellowship Mentor
Bioastra
Poster Session
Call for Posters
The 2026 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: August 31, 2026
Decisions Will Be Announced: September 30, 2026
Location: The Poster Session will be held in the lobby of the Colket Translational Research Building, at 3501 Civic Center Blvd.
For questions related to posters, contact Ariana Downs.
2025 Poster Listing can be found here.
Trainee Poster Awards
Students & Trainees will again be eligible for awards for the 2026 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 October 30, 2026. 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 and be available to present live at the conference. For questions related to posters, contact Ariana Downs.
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
Organizers
2026 Conference Chair
Anuag Verma, PhD
Assistant Professor
Translational Medicine and Human Genetics
Associate Director, Clinical Informatics
and Genomics for Penn Medicine BioBank
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
2026 Conference Co-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
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
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
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tristan Hayeck, PhD
Associate Professor
Computational Immunology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bo Li, PhD
Kai Wang, PhD
Associate Chief Scientific Officer for Omics,
Technology & Engineering
Executive Director,
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Director, Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Yi Xing, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
College of Science and Technology
Temple University
Xinghua Mindy Shi, 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
Ariana Downs - Outreach Manager
Donna Bassler- Project Coordinator
Tom Outland - Office Coordinator
Register
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.