Introduction by Conference Chair, Mingyao Li, PhD

Welcome

Bo Li, PhD

Conference Co-Chair, Associate Professor, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania

Marylyn Ritchie, PhD

Executive Director, Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics

Keynote Speaker introduction by Marylyn Ritchie, PhD

Classifying tumors and predicting patients response from the pathology slides 

Eytan Ruppin, PhD

Chief, Cancer Data Science Laboratory

Head, Computational Precision Oncology Section

National Institutes for Health National Cancer Institute

Center for Cancer Research

Computing the human interactome 

Qian Cong, PhD

Assistant Professor, Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development

Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Biomedical Research

UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Morning Break

Targeting Hidden Drivers toward Precision Oncology

Jiyang Yu, PhD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Interim Chair, Department of Computational Biology

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

New insights into the genetic & epigenetic variation  of complete human centromeres

Glennis Logsdon, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Core Member, Epigenetics Institute

University of Pennsylvania

Perelman School of Medicine

Poster Lightning Round (3-minute Flash Presentations)

1. Shovan Bhowmik - University of Delaware

2. Ian Chen - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

3. Pavel Kuksa, PhD - University of Pennsylvania

4. Athylia Paremski - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

5. Colette Trouillot, MS - Drexel University

6. Jonathan Perdomo - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

7. Yuhao Tan - University of Pennsylvania

8. Akshatha Nayak - Penn State University

9. Jing Hu, PhD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

10. Michael Troka - University of Pennsylvania

11. Christopher Sottolano - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Break for Lunch

Poster Networking Session

Colket Translational Research Building

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Poster Listing

Keynote Speaker introduction by Yi Xing, PhD

Epigenetic and 3D Genome Alteration in Cancer

Feng Yue, PhD

Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis

Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Pathology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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3D mapping of human pancreatic tissues reveals marked structural, genomic, and immune heterogeneity

Ashley Kiemen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pathology

Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBio Technology

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Afternoon Break

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Robust Mendelian Randomization Coupled with AlphaFold3 for Drug Target Discovery

Zhonghua Liu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University Data Science Institute

Bridging H&E/IHC and multiplex images for research and clinicla deployment

Saad Nadeem, PhD

Assistant Attending Computer Scientist

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Departments of Medical Physics and Pathology

Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Stony Brook University

Closing Remarks and Presentation of Trainee Awards

Mingyao Li, PhD

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