Thursday, May 19th, 2022

 

8:00-9:00 - Conference Registration and Breakfast

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9:00-9:05 - Welcome

Remo Rohs, QCB Department Chair

 

9:05-9:10 - Greeting

Jan Amend, Divisional Dean for Life Sciences, Dornsife College

 

9:19-9:15 - Greeting

Yannis Yortsos, Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering

 

9:15-9:25 - Opening Remarks

Andrew Viterbi, USC Life Trustee

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9:25-9:30 - Recorded Greeting

Amber Miller, Dean, Dornsife College

 

9:30-12:30 - Session 1: Structure in Computational Biology

 

9:30-10:10 - Keynote: Structure-based proteome wide prediction of protein-protein and protein-compound interactions

Barry Honig, Columbia University (on Zoom)

 

10:10-10:35 - Digitally detangling the 3D genome

Geoffrey Fudenberg, USC              

 

10:35-10:55 - Coffee Break

 

10:55-11:20 - Annotating human and mouse candidate cis-regulatory elements in the ENCODE Project

Zhiping Weng, UMass Medical School

 

11:20-11:45 - Towards reconstructing peta-scale microscopy datasets

Stephan Preibisch, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

 

11:45-12:10 - Unraveling the mechanistic basis of the CRISPR-Cas revolution through computational methods

Giulia Palermo, UC Riverside            

 

12:10-12:30 - Group photo

 

12:30-14:00 - Lunch break

 

14:00–17:05 - Session 2: Statistics in Computational Biology

 

14:00-14:40 - Keynote: Veridical data science for biomedical research: discovering predictable and stable non-linear interactions through iRF and epiTree

Bin Yu, UC Berkeley

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14:40-15:05 - Deconvolution of DNA damage and repair contributions to the mutational landscape of cancer

Teresa Przytycka, NIH

 

15:05-15:30 - Exploiting the geometry of Correspondence Analysis: Association Plots and biclustering

Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics

 

15:30-15:55 - Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of tumor progression and metastasis

Christina Curtis, Stanford University

 

15:55-16:20 - Genomics and AI for immuno-oncology drug discovery

X. Shirley Liu, GV20 Therapeutics

 

16:20-16:40 - Coffee Break

 

16:40-18:30 - Poster session

 

Friday, May 20th, 2022

 

8:00-9:00 - Breakfast

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9:00–12:20 - Session 3:  Algorithms in Computational Biology

 

9:00-09:40 - Keynote: Utilizing multi-omics, biological networks and medical records to understand cancer 

Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University

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9:40-10:05 - Detecting COVID-19 with genomic sequencing: from bench to vending machine

Eleazar Eskin, UCLA

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10:05-10:30 - New methods to characterize VNTR variation in human genomes

Mark Chaisson, USC

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10:30-10:50 - Break

 

10:50-11:15 - Design for inference: the power of random experiments in biology

Aviv Regev, Genentech and Broad Institute (on Zoom)

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11:15-11:40 - Toward complete genome assemblies using multiplex de Bruijn graphs

Pavel Pevzner, UCSD

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11:40-12:05 - Learning protein-DNA recognition codes using structural mappings

Mona Singh, Princeton University

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12:05-12:30 - Reconstructing somatic evolution from multiomic data

Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University

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12:30-14:00 - Lunch break

 

14:00–17:05 - Session 4: Systems Biology

 

14:00-14:40 - Keynote: How genomes encode time

Michael Levine, Princeton University

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15:05-15:30 - Modeling the dynamics of cell fate decision-making in single cells

Adam MacLean, USC

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14:40-15:05 - Upscaling stochastic dynamics in non-linear systems 

Naomi Levine, USC

15:30-15:50 - Coffee Break

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15:50-16:30 - Keynote: TBA

Bonnie Berger, MIT

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16:30-16:55 - On some open combinatorial problems in computational molecular biology

Lior Pachter, Caltech

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16:55-17:20 - The limits of inference from phylogenetic trees  

Matt Pennell, USC and UBC

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18:00 - Reception, Town & Gown 

 

19:00 - Banquet Dinner, Town & Gown 

Welcome

Remo Rohs, QCB Department Chair

Dinner Remarks

Charles Zukoski, USC Provost

Ming Hsieh, Fulgent Genetics and USC Trustee

Simon Tavaré, Columbia University and USC

Michael Waterman, USC

Saturday, May 21st, 2022
   
8:00-9:00 - Breakfast

 

9:00–12:20 - Session 5: Population Genetics and Evolutionary Genomics

 

9:00-09:40 - Keynote: Modeling and simulation of cancer evolution in single cells

Simon Tavaré, Columbia University and USC

 

9:40-10:05 - On the number of genealogical ancestors tracing to the source groups of an admixed population  

Jazlyn Mooney, USC

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10:05-10:30 - Recursive coalescent computations for multi-species gene genealogies

Noah Rosenberg, Stanford University

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10:30-10:50 - Coffee Break

 

10:50-11:15 - Alignment: it's not only about sequences

Susan Holmes, Stanford University (on Zoom)

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11:15-11:40 - Opening black boxes: enhancing statistical rigor in genomics data science                                         

Jingyi Jessica Li, UCLA

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11:40-12:05 - Revisiting power in case-control association studies as a function of the case fraction              

Michael ‘Doc’ Edge, USC

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12:05-12:30 - Scalable, fast, and statistically consistent species tree estimation addressing both ILS and GDL

Tandy Warnow, UIUC

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12:30-14:00 - Lunch break

 

14:00-14:25 - Back to discrete - in biology, math and AI

Serafim Batzoglou, Seer Inc.

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14:24-14:50 - Count statistics for inferring gene-gene interactions and disease-drug associations

Haiyan Huang, UC Berkeley

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14:50-5:15 - Characterizing the brain regulatory grammar at a single-cell resolution to highlight disease-driving genetic

and epigenetic dysregulations

Jing Zhang, UC Irvine

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15:15-15:40 - Topological data analysis (TDA) and logic on omics data 

Laxmi Parida, IBM

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15:40-15:45 - Organization Committee, Closing Remarks, Adjourn
Fengzhu Sun, Conference Chair

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