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
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
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
Poster Session #2: Odds (2:30 - 3:30 PM)
Location: West Atrium
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.
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.
Social Mixer (6:30 - 9:00 PM)
Location: Koerner’s Pub
1758 West Mall, Vancouver, BC
Limited free food and drinks will be provided!