
Important Update Regarding ATTIS
Due to concerns about the imminent appearance of COVID-19 in Alabama, it seems prudent to reduce potential community exposures by converting tomorrow’s 2020 Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics (ATTIS) meeting to virtual participation and attendance. We are informaticians, after all, so if anyone can adapt to this, we can.
Attendees:
- If you were planning to travel to UAB, please adjust your plans accordingly
- The conference will be web-cast as planned at: https://uab.zoom.us/j/446190311
- Paid registrants can still pick up their lunch any time between noon and 1 p.m. in the foyer of Cudworth Hall.
Poster Presenters:
Posters will be presented orally from 12:00 to 1:30 via Zoom. Each speaker will have 10 minutes to present, 7 minutes to speak and 3 minutes of Q&A. If you are available, you present directly from your poster, or you may prepare a brief slide presentation. Please send us your poster file and/or slide presentation. We have sent details and instructions to poster presenters.
Thanks in advance for your patience, understanding and cooperation.
UAB Informatics Institute invites you to attend the 4th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS)! This year's theme “Informatics Research to Improve Biomedical Research.” ATTIS 2020 offers faculty, postdoc trainees, and graduate students an opportunity to report progress on the latest informatics research and applications in biomedical sciences at UAB. Keynote presentation, scientific talks, flash informatics tool presentation, educational panel, single-cell analysis and data science toolkit tutorials, poster presentations, and informatics gateways will be offered.
Sponsored by: UAB Informatics Institute, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology - Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone and Autoimmunity Center, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology and Department of Pathology

Keynote Speaker
"The Learning Health (Record) System"
Philip R.O. Payne, Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA
Washington University in St. Louis, Institute for Informatics (I2)
Registration
Program of Events-Please check back for updates as we adapt to the new virtual meeting platform.
All events will be hosted on Zoom Meetings
8:30 - 8:35
Opening Remarks
James Cimino M.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Informatics Institute, UAB
8:35 - 9:35
Keynote Talk - “The Learning Health (Record) System”
Philip R.O. Payne, Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA
Professor, Institute for Informatics (I2), Washington University in St. Louis
9:35 - 10:15
Tool Talk Session I
9:35 - 9:45
“BEERE: a web server for biomedical entity expansion, ranking and explorations”
Jake Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Genetics & Computer Science, Informatics Institute, UAB
9:45 - 9:55
“A suite of solutions to biological questions using third generation sequencing”
Zechen Chong, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Informatics Institute, UAB
9:55 - 10:05
“The IgRep Toolbox for analyzing B cell receptor repertoires”
Alex Rosenberg, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Informatics Institute, UAB
10:05 - 10:15
“Current procedures for the analysis of microbiome data”
Elliot Lefkowitz Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology, UAB
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:30
Research Talk Session I
10:30 - 10:50
“Clinical Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores and Racial Ethnic Health Disparities in Common Human Diseases”
Chindo Hicks, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University
10:50 - 11:10
“Geriatrics as an informatics laboratory”
Richard Kennedy, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UAB
11:10 - 11:30
“UAB Genomic Medicine”
Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Genetics, UAB
11:30 - 12:00
Break
12:00 - 1:30
Poster Session- available through Zoom as well
1:30 - 2:10
Special Topics Workshop (choose one)
Links to the individual workshops will be provided soon.
“Single-Cell RNAseq with U-Brite”
Min Gao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Informatics Institute, UAB
“Machine Learning”
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB
2:15 - 2:55
Tool Talk Session II
2:15 - 2:25
“U-BRITE: A Biocomputing infrastructure to accelerate data-intensive translational science”
Jelai Wang Informatics Architect, Informatics Institute, UAB
2:25 - 2:35
“UALCAN: a comprehensive and integrative cancer analysis tool”
Darshan Chandrashekar, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, UAB
2:35 - 2:45
“CINmetrics: an R package for calculating and predicting chromosomal instability from cancer genomic profiles”
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB
2:45 - 2:55
“Pediatric Cancer Data Commons"
Wayne Liang, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Informatics Institute, UAB
2:55 - 3:10
Break
3:10 - 4:30
Research Talk Session II
3:10 - 3:30
“UAB research computing platform”
Ralph Zottola, Ph.D. Assistant Vice-President for Researching Computing, UAB
3:30 - 3:50
“Reading the book of life: the grammar of genes”
Malay Basu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, UAB
3:50 - 4:10
“Pathways to success in bioinformatics – a service, or building one?”
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAB
4:10 - 4:30
“Update on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Epidemiology & Informatics Opportunities”
Molly Fleece, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UAB
Zoom Meeting details
https://uab.zoom.us/j/446190311
Meeting ID: 446 190 311
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