Schedule

 
 

Overview



Detailed Schedule

 

Registration + Coffee + Breakfast (8:00 - 8:50 AM)

Location: East Atrium

Check-In at the Front Desk! Remember to have the QR codes from your registration ready!


Welcome Remarks & Dr. Nakaya Keynote (9:00 - 10:00 AM)

Location: LSC 1 (Live) | LSC 2 (Zoom)

Opening Remarks - Dr. Steven Jones

Keynote Speaker - Next-Gen Healthcare with AI-Powered Omics Analysis - Dr. Helder Nakaya

Speaker Bio & Talk Abstract


Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30 AM)

Location: East Atrium

Tea & Coffee & Refreshments!


Poster Session #1: Evens (10:30 - 11:30 AM)

Location: West Atrium


Concurrent Sessions (11:30 - 12:30 PM)

Location: LSC1 | LSC 2 | LSC 3

LSC1 - Business and Funding in Scientific Research

The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance though an Academic-Industry Partnership Model - Dr. Inanc Birol

Personalized genomic medicine approaches to expand treatment options for cancer patients - Dr. Marco Marra

LSC2 - Novel Techniques

Computational tools for uncovering hidden patterns of DNA methylation - Dr. Keegan Korthauer

Continual Improvement of Cis-Regulatory Models - Dr. Carl de Boer

LSC3 - Machine Learning and AI

Probabilistic topic modelling to ascertain tumour microenvironments in large-scale transcriptomic data - Dr. Yongjin Park

Integrating Multi-Omics and Cross-Domain Machine Learning for Biomedical Insights - Dr. Aline Talhouk

Speaker Abstracts


Lunch and Sponsor Booths (12:30 - 1:30 PM)

Location: East Atrium

See this year’s sponsors!


Sponsor Talks - GSC + Langara (1:30 - 2:30 PM)

Location: LSC 1 (Live), LSC 2 (Zoom)

Working with the GSC Sequencing Platform: Facts, Myths and Ideas

The Bioinformatics Program at Langara College

Sponsor Talk Abstracts


Poster Session #2: Odds (2:30 - 3:30 PM)

Location: West Atrium


Coffee Break (3:30 - 3:45 PM)

Location: East Atrium

Tea & Coffee & Refreshments!


Student Speed Talks (3:45 - 4:30 PM)

Location: LSC1 | LSC 2 | LSC 3

LSC 1 : Ariene Cabantog, Peipei Wang, Franziska Mey, Aditi Srinivasan, Brendan Chia, Rachel Schwartz, Maxwell Douglas, Monica Luo

LSC 2 : Jenny Zhao, Serena Chuang, May Mirzazadeh, Katie Baillie, Sam Munn, Makoto Kishida, Ipek Egilmez, Andy Murtha

LSC 3 : Brian Guo, Dasol Wi, Giuli Sucar, Cathy Yan, Betty Yao, Berke Ucar, Athena Li, Laura Paulus

Each talk will consist of a 5 minute presentation and a 5 minute Q&A session, with 8 speakers per room.

Speed Talk Titles and Schedule


Student Mini Symposiums (4:30 - 5:30 PM)

Location: LSC 1 | LSC 2 | LSC 3 | LSC 1013

LSC 1 : Debajeet Ghosh, Erick Navarro, Amos Fong

LSC 2 : Hannah Illing, Zakir Tahiry, Tony Liang

LSC 3 : Jacky Yiu, Berkay Altintas

LSC 1013 : Cathy Cozma, Jana Jajarmi

Each talk will consist of a 15 minute presentation and a 5 minute Q&A session, with 2-3 speakers per room.

Mini Symposium Titles and Schedule


Closing Remarks and Awards (5:30 - 6:00 PM)

Location: LSC 1

Closing Remarks - Dr. Sharon Gorski


Social Mixer (6:30 - 9:00 PM)

Location: Koerner’s Pub

1758 West Mall, Vancouver, BC

Limited free food and drinks will be provided!