Guest Presenters
Itai Yanai, PhD
Director, Institute for Computational Medicine
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
New York University, School of Medicine
Golnaz Vahedi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics at The University of Pennsylvania
Yun Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Genetics at Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
X. Shirley Liu, PhD
Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Sohrab Shah, PhD
Chief of Computational Oncology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peter Kharchenko, PhD
Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University
Samantha Morris, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Washington University in Saint Louis
Benedict Paten, PhD
Director of the Computational Genomics Laboratory, Associate Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Conference Chair
Wanding Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Conference Co-Chair
Yi Xing, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Conference Committee
Laura Almasy, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Kai Tan, PhD
Professor, Professor of Pediatrics
Investigator, Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Deanne Taylor, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Director, Bioinformatics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Kai Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Conference Operations
Mark Diltz, EdD, Principal, Informatics Education
Colleen Gaynor, Outreach Specialist
Hannah Lazarus, Research Coordinator
Donna Vito, Outreach Manager
