Sessions will be composed of 4 talks, 20 minutes each, followed by a discussion panel. There will be a total of 4 sessions, followed by a poster session. The themes within each session are discovery, innovation, application, and translation of big genomics. Topics will include metagenomics, transcriptomics, genome assembly, and medical genomics.
| Session 1 – Applications of Genomic Discoveries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brett Tyler | Oregon State University | Using genomics to understand how plant pathogens suppress host immunity |
| Aaron Kleinman | 23andMe | Crowd-sourcing genetic discovery |
| Joanna Wong | IBM | Reference Architecture for Genomics |
| Peter Baumann | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Understanding telomerase RNA processing one molecule at a time in massively parallel fashion. |
| Session 2 – Translation to Human Disease | ||
| Ingo Braash | UO and Michigan State | The spotted gar genome links biomedical fish models to human biology |
| Eric Wang | University of Florida | RNA Regulation in Myotonic Dystrophy and Beyond |
| Peter Skewes-Cox | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research | Bioinformatics in the fight against infectious diseases: integrating software pipelines into the drug pipeline |
| Christopher Roberts | Biogen | Application of Computational Biology and Genomics to the Drug Pipeline at Biogen |
| Session 3 – Innovations in Genomics Analyses | ||
| Steven Wiley | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Using variance analysis to understand cell type-specific regulatory networks |
| Adam Carroll | Amplion | Biomarker Identification Using Supervised Machine Learning |
| Thomas Hraha | Somalogic | Reimagining Proteomics and Biomarker Discovery with the SomaLogic SOMAscan® Platform |
| Session 4 – Advances in Profiling and Detection | ||
| Celso Espinoza | Active Motif | New techniques for profiling epigenomic landscapses. |
| Govindarajan Kunde Ramamoorthy | Joint Genome Institute | PacBio – Isoform sequencing(Isoseq) technology and analysis |
| Adam Margolin | Oregon Health and Science University | Towards precision medicine on a global scale |