The event is open to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff involved in or interested in methods development for bioinformatics. We hope to connect folks and provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of work in methods development.
| Session | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffee and snacks (Wartik 501) | 9:30 | ||
| Session 1 (Chair: Md. Hasin Abrar) | 10:00 | Ishan Behoora | Harmonic search applied to glike to estimate population parameters |
| Judith Rodriguez | Leveraging FracMinHash Containment for Estimating Nonsynonymous and Synonymous Selection | ||
| Manan Saxena | Scalable Inference for Bayesian Multinomial Dynamic Linear Models | ||
| Tinghua Chen | Bayesian Multinomial Logistic Normal Additive Gaussian Process Model | ||
| Qiuhai Zeng | Linkreg: a Bayesian framework to link cCREs to target genes | ||
| Pesho Ivanov | Fast and exact sketch-based read mapping | ||
| Panel Discussion (Chair: Maxwell Konnaris) | 11:30 | Kevin Hockett | The interface between method developers and method consumers |
| Kateryna Makova | |||
| Santhosh Girirajan | |||
| PJ Perry | |||
| Lunch (Wartik 501) | 12:30 | ||
| Session 2 (Chair: Tinghua Chen) | 1:30 | Kyle McGovern | Replacing Normalizations with Interval Assumptions Improves Differential Expression/Abundance |
| Maxwell Konnaris | Limits on Correlation Estimation in Sequence Count Data Analysis | ||
| Mushan Li | Robust estimation of mean‐variance relation | ||
| Mahmudur Rahman Hera | Estimating similarity and dissimilarity metrics using FracMinHash | ||
| Xiaofei Carl Zang | Augmenting Transcriptome Annotations through the Lens of Splicing Evolution | ||
| Keynote Speaker (Chair: Xinyue Wang) | 3:00 | Dajiang Liu | Leveraging EHR-based biobanks to predict disease risks and understand gene x environment interactions |
| Closing coffee and snacks | 4:00 | ||
| End | 4:30 |
This workshop is funded with the generous support of the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences.