October 13, 2017

Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2017

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Time Session Speaker
9:00 AM
Registration and coffee service
9:50 AM
Opening remarks
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft
10:00 AM
Biobanks Provide Unique Opportunities for Discovery and Translation: Data Integration across Phenome, Genome, and Transcriptome
Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University
10:30 AM
Probing Neural Function with Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Polina Anikeeva, Massachusetts University
11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:15 AM
Building a New View of Transcriptome Variations
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania
11:45 AM
Rational development of drugs from the human microbiota
Bernat Olle, Vendata Biosciences, Inc.
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Poster session
1:30 PM
One genome to rule them all, one genome to find them
Gill Bejerano, Stanford University
2:00 PM
Using Large Scale Genomic Databases to Improve Disease Variant Interpretation
Daniel MacArthur, Broad Institute
2:30 PM
Single cell genomics: tools for computational analysis with application to innate immune response to HIV-1 infection
Nir Yosef, Berkeley University
3:00 PM
Coffee break / poster session
3:45 PM
Genomic Approaches to Cancer
Todd Golub, Harvard University
4:15 PM
Using the data, all the data; the case of the human microbiome
Susan Holmes, Stanford University
4:45 PM
Project Premonition: Scaling up pathogen surveillance
Jonathan Carlson, Microsoft
5:15 PM
Closing Remarks