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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:

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

Rugare Maruzani

University of Liverpool
PhD Student
Liverpool

I’m a PHD student based in Liverpool England. My background is in microbiology and I’m new to computational biology. Look forward to meeting fellow bioinformaticians at this conference!

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

10:05am MST

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

10:25am MST

Break Ballroom Foyer

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

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

5:40pm MST

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

6:30pm MST

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

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

10:15am 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

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

4:00pm MST

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

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

5:10pm 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

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

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

9:40am MST

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

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

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