The following is a draft agenda. Up-to-date agenda and details will be available from the conference app
Day 1: Thursday, March 28 (Registration and Poster Setup)
| 9:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Pre-conference Program UAB ATTIS at MCBIOS 2019 | ||
| MCBIOS 2019 Meeting Begins Registration in the Conference Lobby | |||
| 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Tutorial 1
Single-cell genomic data analysis
Hamilton 2 | Tutorial 2
Metabolomics data analysis
Skipwith 2 | Student Session:
Career Development
Skipwith 1 |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Poster Session / Coffee Break Conference Lobby, Hamilton 1 | ||
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Semi-Supervised Learning to the Rescue: Towards Deep
Understanding of Coding Variant Effects Presenter: Predrag Radivojac, Ph.D., Northeastern University Hamilton 1 | ||
| 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session / Coffee Break Conference Lobby, Hamilton 1 | ||
| 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Dinner (Opening Reception) Hamilton 1 | ||
Day 2: Friday, March 29 (Registration)
| Track 1: Clinical Genomics Hamilton 2 | Track 2: Drug Discovery and Informatics Skipwith 2 | Young Scientist Excellence Award
Skipwith 1 | |
| 8:00 – 9:20 a.m. | Breakout Session 1: Integration of omics data with clinical information Session Chair: Chindo Hicks, LSU | Breakout Session 3: In silico drug discovery
in the era of precision medicine
Session Chair: Zhichao Liu, NCTR/FDA | Postdoc Award Presentation |
| 9:25 – 10:45 a.m. | Breakout Session 2: Omics data in real-world settings Session Chair: Dong Wang, NCTR/FDA | Breakout Session 4: Computer-aided drug
discovery and development
Session Chair: Daisuke Kihara, Purdue | Student Award Presentation |
| 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break Conference Lobby, Hamilton 1 | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Brain Genomics Presenter: Mark Gerstein, PhD Yale University Hamilton 1 | ||
| 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. | Lunch and Sponsor Presentations Hamilton 1 | ||
| Track 3:
Translational Bioinformatics
Hamilton 2 | Track 4:
Genome Biology
Skipwith 2 | Track 5:
Biomedical Informatics
Skipwith 1 | |
| 1:30 – 2:50 p.m. | Breakout Session 5: Protein structural
bioinformatics– Debswapna
Session Chair: Bhattacharya, Auburn | Breakout Session 7: Microbial genomic
analysis for public health
Session Chair: Steven Foley, NCTR/FDA | Breakout Session 9: Biomedical Informatics
Session Chair: Wen Zou, NCTR/FDA |
| 2:55 – 4:15 p.m. | Breakout Session 6: New informatics methods
for precision medicine
Session Chair: Zhaohui “Steve” Qin, Emory | Breakout Session 8: Challenges and solutions
for analysis of gene expression data
Session Chair: Wei (Vivian) Zhuang, NCTR/FDA | Breakout Session 10: Heterogenous biomedical
information visualization
Session Chair: Huanmei Wu, IUPUI |
| 4:15 – 5:00 p.m. | Poster Session / Coffee Break Conference Lobby, Hamilton 1 | ||
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Genomic medicine for understudied populations: lessons from
Colombia Presenter: King Jordan, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Hamilton 1 | ||
| 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session / Coffee Break Conference Lobby, Hamilton 1 | ||
| 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Dinner Hamilton 1 | ||
Day 3: Saturday, March 30
| 7:00-8:00 a.m. | Track 6: Computational Biology and Machine
Learning
Hamilton 2 | Track 7: Emerging Technologies
Skipwith 2 |
| 8:00 – 9:20 a.m. | Breakout Session 11: Machine learning in biomedicine Session Chair: Thanh Minh Nguyen, UAB | Closed Session: MCBIOS ’19 Board Meeting |
| 9:25 – 10:45 a.m. | Breakout Session 12: Computational Biology
Session Chair: Steve Barnes, UAB | Breakout Session 13: Emerging computational approaches for drug discovery and development Session Chair: Minjun Chen, NCTR/FDA |
| 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break Conference Lobby | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Clinical Applications of Genomic Medicine: The State of the
Art Presenter: Josh F. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACMI, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Hamilton 1 | |
| 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch and Award Announcement Hamilton 1 | |
| 1:15 – 2:00 p.m. | Roundtable Discussions Hamilton 1 | Expert Panel Hamilton 2 |
| MCBIOS 2019 Ends | ||
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