*One-day Webinar Event*

Center for Statistical Bioinformatics

and 

Texas A&M TRIPODS FIDS Institute

Friday, October 30, 2020

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Registration is Closed

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Organizers:

Bani K. Mallick, Chair, Department of Statistics, TAMU

Tapasree Roy Sarkar, Chair, Department of Biology, TAMU

Alan Pepper, Department of Biology, TAMU

Yang Ni, Department of Statistics, TAMU

Schedule:

9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction –
Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Head, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
Dr. Thomas McKnight, Head, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University

Session 1 – BIOINFORMATICS IN HUMAN HEALTH
Chaired By- Dr. Tapasree Roy Sarkar and Dr. Alan Pepper

9:30 – 10:30 am
Keynote Speaker – Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine
Talk Title: Computing the Genetic Architecture of Complex Disease from Evolutionary Fitness Landscapes

10:40 – 11:20 am
Kaifu Chen, Houston Methodist
Talk Title: “Machine learning reveals cell identity regulator by epigenetic codes”

11:30 – 12:10 pm
Adam Auton, Human Genetics at 23andMe
Talk Title: “Participant powered research: How direct to consumer genetic testing can help us understand COVID-19 host genetic”

12:10 – 12:50 pm
Irtisha Singh, Texas A&M University
Talk Title: “Uncovering mechanisms of chromatin, transcriptional and co-transcriptional deregulation in tumorigenesis”

12:55 – 1:30 pm
Lunch

Session 2 – BIOINFORMATICS: OTHER APPLICATIONS & BIG DATA
Chaired By- Dr. Yang Ni

1:40 – 2:40 pm
Keynote Speaker – Jeffrey Morris, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: “Top-Down Integrative Genomics for Colon Cancer Precision Therapeutics”

2:50 – 3:30 pm
Vadim Zipunnikov, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Modelling health behaviours with mobile technology”

3:40 – 4:20 pm
Patrick Schnable, Iowa State University
Talk Title: “TWAS: Unlocking Gene Expression to Identify Gene-Trait Associations in Crops”

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