/2017 KnowEnG Center NIH site visit and EAC meeting
2017 KnowEnG Center NIH site visit and EAC meeting2017-12-12T11:29:58+00:00

KnowEnG Center site visit

The third annual NIH site visit and External Advisory Council meeting

April 27 & 28, 2017

Urbana-Champaign, IL

Registration is now closed. Please contact knoweng@illinois.edu

PROGRAM

Venue: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, 612 Conference Center

1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL – 61801

Registration begins at 1:00 p.m.

 

1:30 – 1:35 p.m.

Welcome

Peter Schiffer, Vice Chancellor for Research

1:35 – 1:45 p.m. Administrative Overview of the Center

Victor Jongeneel, Executive Director

1:45 – 3:15 p.m. Data Science Research

Saurabh Sinha, Program co-Director

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Cyberinfrastructure and Commons Activities

Umberto Ravaioli, Cyberinfrastructure Lead

3:50 – 4:15 p.m. KnowEnG System Demonstration

Nahil Sobh, Project Manager

607, IGB

4:15 – 6:15 p.m. Poster Session and Social

IGB Concourse Level

6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Dinner

NIH, EAC and SC members

Venue: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Room -1030

1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, IL 61801

 

8:00 – 8:05 a.m. Welcome Remarks

Gene Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

8:05 – 8:35 a.m. KnowEnG – Mayo Clinic Collaboration Updates

Richard Weinshilboum, PI – Breast Cancer Pharmacogenomics  & Krishna Rani Kalari

Pharmacogenomics faculty, Associate Professor Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic

8:35 – 8:50 a.m. Global Detection of Genetic Epistasis

Consortium Project with ENIGMA BD2K Center

Sihai Dave Zhao, Assistant Professor, Statistics

8:50 – 9:05 a.m. Identifying Causal Mechanisms of Germline Risk Variants in Breast Cancer

Consortium Project with CPCP BD2K Center

Yi Zhang, Graduate Research Assistant

9:05 – 9:20 a.m. KnowEnG Tools for LINCS Data

Consortium Project with LINCS-DCIC BD2K Center

Saurabh Sinha, Program co-Director

9:20 – 10:05 a.m. Bio-Text Mining & Collaboration with UCLA Heart BD2K Center

Jiawei Han, Program co-Director

10:05 10:30 a.m. Plans for the Next Year

Saurabh Sinha, Program co-Director

10:30 – 10:35 a.m. NCSA Welcome Address 

William Gropp, Acting Director of NCSA

10:35 – 11:20 a.m. Training Activities

Jun Song, PI Training

11:20 – 11:45 p.m. Discussion and Wrap Up

Saurabh Sinha, Program co-Director

11:45 – 12:45 p.m. Boxed Lunch and End of Meeting

NCSA Lobby

11:45 – 12:45 p.m. NIH Private Meeting and Lunch

NCSA 2100

11:45 – 12:45 p.m. EAC Members Private Meeting and Lunch

 NCSA 2000

12:45 –  1:45 p.m. EAC Members and Steering Committee Private Meeting (NIH Officers as Observers)

NCSA 2000

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. NIH Officers and Steering Committee Private Meeting

NCSA 2100

End
  • Event Contact

    Subha Srinivasan, 217-265-0840

    Letitia (Tish) Cundiff, 217-265-7614

    Email: knoweng@illinois.edu

  • Parking

    April 27: Venue: IGB. Closest parking is F-28 parking lot (Map)

    April 28: Venue: NCSA. Closest parking lot is B4 parking garage (Map)