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Rocky 2021

Welcome to the Rocky 2021 Conference. Please click on the links below to access the Rocky website and the list of posters:

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Rocky Website
Poster Presentation List without abstracts
Poster Presentation List with abstracts

TBA

SLACK CHANNEL - Rocky Communications

4:00pm MST

Registration Viceoy - Lower Level

8:00am MST

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer Registration Viceoy - Lower Level

9:00am MST

Keynote 1 - Humans “in-the-loop”: Practical Recommendations for Enhancing the Trustworthiness of AI Development for Healthcare - Diane M. Korngiebel, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Diane Korngiebel

9:45am MST

OP 01 - Adventures in Integrating Biobank Scale Data with Genomic, Phenotypic and Imaging Data from Other Sources Ballroom Salon 1Ben Busby

9:55am MST

OP 02 - ProTaxa: software to easily perform phylogenomic analyses for prokaryotic taxa Ballroom Salon 1Joseph Wirth

10:05am MST

OP 03 - Predicting functional consequences of mutations using molecular interaction network features Ballroom Salon 1

10:15am MST

OP 04 - Co-evolution based machine-learning for predicting functional interactions between human genes Ballroom Salon 1Yuval Tabach

10:25am MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

10:45am MST

OP 05 - Scalable estimation of microbial co-occurrence networks with Variational Autoencoders Ballroom Salon 1James Morton

10:55am MST

OP 06 - Geographical Support Vector Machines (GSVM) for the Analysis of Spatially Data Ballroom Salon 1

11:05am MST

OP 07 - sciCAN: Single-cell chromatin accessibility and gene expression data integration via Cycle-consistent Adversarial Network Ballroom Salon 1Yang Xu

11:15am MST

OP 08 - TADMaster: A Comprehensive Web-based Tool for Analysis of Topologically Associated Domain Detection Methods Ballroom Salon 1Oluwatosin Oluwadare

11:25am MST

OP 09 - Error Modelled Gene Expression Analysis (EMOGEA) Ballroom Salon 1Tobias Karakach

11:35am MST

Box Lunch Pick up (For those who purchased in advance) Ballroom Foyer Ski Break

4:00pm MST

Keynote 2 - Dramatically Elevated Proteomic Risk Profiles Predict COVID-19 Severity - Michael A. Hinterberg, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Michael A. Hinterberg

4:30pm MST

OP 10 - New machine learning approaches to estimate the functional consequence of mutations in diverse human populations Ballroom Salon 1Yuval Itan

4:40pm MST

OP 11 - Assessing Equivalent and Inverse Change in Genes between Diverse Experiments Ballroom Salon 1Lisa Neums

4:50pm MST

OP 12 - Recent Advances in Sequence Assembly Using Flow Decomposition Ballroom Salon 1Brendan Mumey

5:00pm MST

OP 13 - About the Research Data Alliance Ballroom Salon 1Stephanie Hagstrom

5:10pm MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

5:30pm MST

OP 14 - Crossing complexity of space-filling curves reveals new principles of genome folding Ballroom Salon 1

5:40pm MST

OP 15 - The Cultural Evolution of Vaccine Hesitancy: Modeling the Interaction between Beliefs and Vaccination Behaviors Ballroom Salon 1Kerri-Ann Anderson

5:50pm MST

OP 16 - Automated and systematic verification and validation increases quality and long-term reuse of models Ballroom Salon 1

6:00pm MST

OP 17 - SBMLWebApp: Web-based Simulation, Steady-State Analysis, and Parameter Estimation of Systems Biology Models Ballroom Salon 1Andreas Dräger

6:30pm MST

Dinner - Il Poggio (6:30PM Shuttle/7PM DINNER) Off Site

8:00am MST

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer Registration Viceoy - Lower Level

9:00am MST

Keynote 3 - Single-cell Biology in a Software 2.0 World - David Van Valen, PhD Ballroom Salon 1David Ashley Van Valen

9:45am MST

OP 18 - A comprehensive benchmarking of WGS-based structural variant callers Ballroom Salon 1Varuni Sarwal

9:55am MST

OP 19 - Exploring hypotheses of small cell lung cancer growth mechanisms using Bayesian mutlimodel inference Ballroom Salon 1Samantha Beik

10:05am MST

OP 20 - Identifying and Classifying Goals for Scientific Knowledge Ballroom Salon 1

10:15am MST

OP 21 - The Egyptian Center for Genome and Microbiome Research: A Funded North-South Collaboration for Capacity Building and Genomics Research Sustainability Ballroom Salon 1Ramy Aziz

10:25am MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

10:45am MST

OP 22 - The Ramp Atlas: Facilitating tissue-specific ramp sequence analyses across humans and SARS-CoV-2 Ballroom Salon 1Justin Miller

10:55am MST

OP 23 - The systematic assessment for the completeness of metadata information accompanying omics studies Ballroom Salon 1Yu-Ning Huang

11:05am MST

OP 24 - A Tale of Two Systems: Influenza and COVID-19 Ballroom Salon 1

11:15am MST

OP 25 - Genomic epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in Arizona USA Ballroom Salon 1Matthew Scotch

11:25am MST

OP 26 - Predicting protein level changes from transcript level data Ballroom Salon 1

11:35am MST

Box Lunch Pick up (For those who purchased in advance) Ballroom Foyer Ski Break Personal Time

4:00pm MST

Keynote 4 - Mapping and Navigating the Human Regulatory Genome - Wouter Meuleman, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Wouter Meuleman

4:30pm MST

OP 27 - Morphology and gene expression profiling provide complementary information for mapping cell state Ballroom Salon 1Gregory Way

4:40pm MST

OP 28 - Improving the interpretability of random forest models of genetic association in the presence of non-additive interactions Ballroom Salon 1Alena Orlenko

4:50pm MST

OP 29 - Germline modifiers of the tumor immune microenvironment reveal drivers of immunotherapy response Ballroom Salon 1

5:00pm MST

OP 30 - Genome Skimming by Shotgun Sequencing to Address Longstanding Questions of Lichen Species Diversity Ballroom Salon 1

5:10pm MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

5:30pm MST

OP 31 - Response Signatures of SARS-CoV2 Infection Identified Using Deep Learning Approaches on Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Ballroom Salon 1Mario Flores

5:40pm MST

OP 32 - Multispecies cities in the Anthropocene: bioremediation and biomining potential of the Gowanus Canal Microbiome, an urban Superfund site Ballroom Salon 1Chandrima Bhattacharya

5:50pm MST

OP 33 - Higher-order Markov models for metagenomic sequence classification Ballroom Salon 1

6:00pm MST

OP 34 - DEGAS: Mapping clinical metrics to spatial transcriptomics with deep learning Ballroom Salon 1Justin Louis Couetil

6:10pm MST

Open Ballroom divider wall, move chairs and boards to accommodate Poster Session Ballroom Foyer

6:30pm MST

Poster Presentations and Reception Ballroom Salon 3

8:00am MST

Breakfast Ballroom Foyer Registration Viceoy - Lower Level

9:00am MST

Keynote 5 - NLP Sandbox: Overcoming Data Access Barriers to Reliably Assess the Performance of NLP Tools - Thomas Schaffter, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Thomas Schaffter

9:30am MST

OP 35 - Scientific Reproducibility and Research Automation with QIIME 2 Provenance Replay Ballroom Salon 1

9:40am MST

OP 36 - Robustness and reproducibility of computational genomics tools Ballroom Salon 1Serghei Mangul

9:50am MST

OP 37 - Define and visualize pathological architectures of human tissues from spatially resolved transcriptomics using deep learning Ballroom Salon 1

10:00am MST

OP 38 - Identifying Viruses from Host Genomes and Deep Learning for Prediction of Viral Integration Sites Ballroom Salon 1Zhongming Zhao

10:10am MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

10:30am MST

OP 39 - Quantification and visualization of the tumor microenvironment heterogeneity from spatial transcriptomic experiments Ballroom Salon 1Oscar Ospina

10:40am MST

OP 40 - Inferring Pediatric Sickle Disease Genotypes from Molecular Mechanistic Knowledge Ballroom Salon 1Tiffany Callahan

10:50am MST

OP 41 - COPD subtypes identified from blood RNA-seq data using single sample gene network perturbations Ballroom Salon 1Takis Benos

11:30am MST

Keynote 6 - Who Has long-Covid? A Small and Big Data Approach - Melissa Haendel, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Melissa Haendel

12:00pm MST

Closing Session - Raffle and Poster Winners Announcement Ballroom Salon 1