Institute for Biomedical Informatics

Genomics and Computational Biology

Graduate Group2017 Annual Retreat June 8 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaMutter Museum19 South 22nd StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19103

For more information, please contact Maureen Kirsch maurkirs@upenn.edu

Institute forBiomedical Informatics

Many thanks to our sponsors!The Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaDepartment of Biomedical and Health InformaticsThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research InstituteDepartment of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM Opening remarks

9:15 AM Melissa Wilson Sayres, Keynote Lecture Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and

Bioinformatics, Arizona State University Sex-based Genome Evolution

10:15 AM Alex Amlie-Wolf GCB Student, Wang Lab Integrative analysis identi�es immune-related

enhancers and lncRNAs perturbed by genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease

10:40 AM Eric Joyce Assistant Professor of Genetics High-throughput imaging and analysis of 3D

genome organization

Co�ee break

11:35 AM Ian Mellis MD-PhD GCB Student, Raj Lab Determining and inducing gene expression patterns

underlying cell identity

12:00 PM William La Cava Postdoctoral Researcher, Moore Lab A general feature engineering wrapper for learning

biomedical data representations

Lunch and poster session

2:00 PM Laura Almasy Professor of Genetics Variance component approaches for complex trait

genetics

2:25 PM Matthew Breitenstein Instructor in Informatics Translational bioinformatics: molecular signal

detection in cancer pharmacoepidemiology

2:50 PM Katie Siewert GCB Student, Voight Lab Genetic correlation and causal inference analyses

for migraine headache

Co�ee break

3:45 PM Steven Salzberg, Plenary lecture Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical

Engineering, Computer Science and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Transcriptome Assembly: Computational Challenges of Next-Generation Sequence Data

4:45 PM Reception