Rutgers University Workshop

Advances in Computational and Data Science for Investigative Discovery in Biology and Medicine 

Sponsored by:
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ)
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine at Rutgers (IQB@R)

This exciting, cross disciplinary workshop for Rutgers researchers will focus on identifying multidisciplinary research opportunities in the areas of computational and data-enabled biology and medicine and exploring collaborations that can effectively respond to these opportunities.

Agenda

8:30 am  Registration and Refreshments 

9:00 am  Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop
Dr. Stephen Burley, Director, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research; Founding Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine; Director, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank; Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

9:15 am  From Infrastructure to Insights
Dr. David J. Foran, Chief Informatics Officer and Executive Director of Computational Imaging & Biomedical Informatics, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Dr. Helen Berman, Distinguished Professor and Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Interim Associate Vice President, Rutgers University Office of Advanced Research Computing
Dr. Manish Parashar, Director, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute; Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Interim Associate Vice President, Rutgers University Office of Advanced Research Computing

10:00 am  Break and Poster Session 
 For information regarding poster submission, please click here.

10:45 am  Computional Biology and Bioinformatics
Dr. Sagar Khare, Assistant Professor, Center for Integrative Proteomics, Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Vikas Nanda, Associate Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Yana Bromberg, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Dr. Michele Pavanello, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Department of Chemistry

12:00 pm  Lunch

1:00 pm  Precision Medicine and Medical Informatics 
Dr. Shridar Ganeson, Medical Oncologist and Associate Director for Translational Science, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey -- Medical Oncology
Dr. Steve Buyske, Associate Research Professor, Rutgers University Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
Dr. Lorna Rodriguez-Rust, Director, Precision Medicine Initiative; Chief, Gynecologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Dr. Grace Brannigan, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University--Camden Department of Physics

2:15 pm  Breakout Groups
Discussion of possible collaborations

3:15 pm  Break

3:30 pm  Report out by Discussion Leaders

4:00 pm  Summary of Action Items
Dr. Stephen Burley, Director, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research; Founding Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine; Director, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank; Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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