Agenda

Monday, March 13, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Welcome
Russell Schwartz, CMU

Optimization and Mathematical Programming for Cancer Research

Wenyi Wang, MD Anderson

Benchmarking-related model development for deconvoluting cancer genomes and heterogeneous tissue transcriptomes

Mohammed El Kebir, UIUC

Combinatorial Algorithms for Cancer Phylogenetics

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch Break
James Zhou, Stanford U

What’s next for computational precision oncology?

Jian Ma, CMU

Machine Learning for Spatial Genomics

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm EST
Coffee & Tea Break
Ben Raphael, Princeton

Alignment, Integration, and Modeling of Spatial Transcriptomics Data

Aly Khan, U Chicago

Deciphering Anti-tumor Immune Responses with Systems Immunology and Genomics

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Announcements
Eytan Ruppin, NCI

Next generation transcriptomics-based precision oncology

Lenore Cowen, Tufts U

Pathways for Learning from Structure and Organization of Biological Networks

Damian Wojtowicz, Warsaw U

Signatures of mutational processes in cancer: methods and mechanisms

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch Break
Misha Kolomogorov, NCI

Profiling somatic and germline structural variants in cancer genomes using long reads

Salem Malikic

Reconstruction of trees of tumor evolution from single-cell sequencing data

03:30 pm - 05:00 pm EST
Poster Session

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Announcements
Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv U

Integrated analysis of multi-omic data in cancer

Eugene Koonin, NCBI

Mutation-Selection Balance, Compensatory Mechanisms and Driver Epistasis in Tumor Evolution

Erin Molloy, UMD

Models and methods for reconstructing population-level evolutionary histories and relationships to tumor phylogenetics

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch Break
Hannah Carter, UCSD

Bioinformatic analysis for precision immunotherapy

Peter Van Loo, MD Anderson

Molecular archeology of cancer

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm EST
Coffee & Tea Break
Alejandro Schaffer, NCI

Studying precision oncology past by mining a clinical trials database and identifying future opportunities from single-cell analysis

Sridhar Hannenhalli, NCI

Gene regulatory mechanisms in cancer - beyond genetics

Thursday, March 16, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Announcements
Iman Hajirasouliha, Weill-Cornell

Weakly-supervised tumor purity prediction from frozen H&E stained slides

Mona Singh, Princeton

The case for equitable computational method development for precision oncology

Peng Jiang, NCI

Big Data Approaches to Study Intercellular Signaling in Cancer Immunotherapy Resistance

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch Break
01:30 pm EST
Lightning Talks
03:00 pm EST CDSL
Social Event: Happy Hour

Friday, March 17, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Announcements
Rachel Karchin, JHU

Predicting immunogenic neoepitopes in cancers

Fabiio Vandin, U Padova

Discovering Significant Evolutionary Trajectories in Cancer Phylogenies

Tere Landi, NCI

Interaction of APOBEC deaminase and tobacco smoking activities in lung cancer

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch Break
Doron Betel, Weill-Cornell

A primer on computational approaches in single cell spatial transcriptomics

Christina Leslie, MSKCC

Machine leaning models for regulatory and single cell genomics

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm EST
Coffee & Tea Break
Pavel Przytycki, Boston U

Deciphering cell type and state with single cell chromatin accessibility

Lichun Ma, NCI

Single-cell dissection on tumor heterogeneity and tumor evolution in liver cancer

Saturday, March 18, 2023

08:30 am - 09:00 am EST
Annoucements
09:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Breakout Sessions
12:00 pm EST Visit to the National Mall
Social Event