Novel Methods for Systems Biology

Track Chair(s)

• AX

  Alexander Xu, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland College Park
• MM

  Megan McLean

Session Chair(s)

• SD

  Siddharth Dey

  Assistant Prof.
  University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
• 

  Jangwook Jung, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT

  An Artificial intelligence time-series analysis to identify pre-menses microbial signatures linked to protection against post-menses bacterial vaginosis
  

  Presenting Author: Sina Bonakdar, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Primary Investigator: Sina Bonakdar, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Co-Author: Kayvan Najarian – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Last Author: Kelly Arnold – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

  Using network analysis to uncover rates of tissue development
  

  Presenting Author: Niles Huang, MBiochem – Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrated Genomics, Princeton University

  Co-Author: Bridget Waas – Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

  Last Author: Celeste M. Nelson – Princeton University

  Primary Investigator: Celeste M. Nelson – Princeton University
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PDT

  Using PARAFAC2-RISE to Identify Determinants of Pneumonia Mortality via Single-Cell Bronchoalveolar Lavage Measurements
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew Ramirez, MS – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Jackson L. Chin – University of California, Los Angeles

  Primary Investigator: Aaron Meyer – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Michael Yeaman, PhD, MSc – University of California, Los Angeles
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM PDT

  Super Resolution Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Multimodal Integration, & Metabolic Barcoding
  

  Presenting Author: Efe Ozturk – Georgia Insitute of Technology

  Co-Author: Felix G. Rivera Moctezuma – Georgia Insitute of Technology

  Co-Author: Abhijeet Venkataraman – Georgia Insitute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Ahmet F. Coskun – Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech and Emory

  Co-Author: Facundo Fernandez, PhD – School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Georgia Institute of Technology
• 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT

  Inferring Transcription Factor Activity from Single-Cell RNA-Seq Using Regulatory-Embedded Variational Inference
  

  Presenting Author: Mehrdad Zandigohar, MS – University of Illinois Chicago

  Co-Author: Jalees Rehman – University of Illinois College of Medicine

  Last Author: Yang Dai – University of Illinois Chicago

  Primary Investigator: Yang Dai – University of Illinois Chicago
• 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

  Building transcriptional regulatory networks with single-cell multiome data using a binary classification approach
  

  Presenting Author: Yasin Uzun, PhD – Penn State College of Medicine

  Last Author: Yasin Uzun, PhD – Penn State College of Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Yasin Uzun, PhD – Penn State College of Medicine