Women in Bioinformatics Workshop

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Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Women in Bioinformatics is a workshop that brings together researchers from computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, biology, biotechnology, and chemistry to present their research in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics.

Women Leading the Way

Workshop organizers are all women. Invited speakers at the workshop will be women with leading research in the field. Abstract submissions and participation in all sessions are open to researchers of all genders.

Supporting women working in the bioinformatics discipline

Encouraging more women researchers and students to engage in this research field

Creating interdisciplinary research collaboration opportunities

Career mentoring to support junior researchers and students

Call for Abstracts

The Women in Bioinformatics Workshop invites researchers to submit original research in all aspects of bioinformatics or computational biology.

Topics can include but are not limited

Next Generation Sequencing Analysis
Cancer Genomics
AI for Computational Biology
Population Genomics
Multi-Omics Data Analysis
Single Cell Sequencing Analysis
Medical Image Processing
Systems Biology and Networks
Bioinformatics of Microbiomes
Bioinformatics Education
Infectious Disease Networks and Computational Epidemiology
Immunoinformatics
Regulatory and Functional Genomics
Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
Metagenomics

Abstract Submission

Abstracts' submissions should present original work and may include preliminary results, work in progress, or proof of concepts. Abstracts are limited to a single page. Abstracts will be presented during the poster session.

Submissions are now closed.

Speakers

Join researchers and industry specialists from computer science, biology and biotechnology, presenting their research and industry experience in the interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics.

Jingyue Ellie Duan
Assistant Professor, Animal Science
Cornell University

Duygu Ucar
Associate Professor, JAX Center for Aging Research
JAX Center for 3D Genomics and Biology
The JAX Cancer Center
The Jackson Laboratory

Sheida Nabavi
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Connecticut

Jill Wegrzyn
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Director, Computational Biology Core

Sheng Li
Associate Professor,
JAX Center for 3D Genomics and Biology
The JAX Cancer Center
The Jackson Laboratory

Usha Pillai
Founder and President, Aria Management Consulting, LLC
Member, CT Bioscience Growth Council

Erika Smith
CEO, ReNetX Bio, Inc.

Alexa Wnorowski
Fellow, JAX Genomic Education
The Jackson Laboratory

Rachel O'Neill
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology / Genetics and Genomics
Director, Center for Genome Innovation
University of Connecticut

Organizers

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Sahar Al Seesi, Southern Connecticut State University
Rachel O’Neill, University of Connecticut

Program Committee Members

Judy Brown, University of Connecticut
Miranda Lynch, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Marmar Moussa, University of Oklahoma
Sheida Nabavi, University of Connecticut
Jiongdong Pang, Southern Connecticut State University
Tatiana Shcheglova, University of Connecticut Health Center
Jill Wegrzyn, University of Connecticut
Sarah Wojiski, The Jackson Laboratory

Local Organization Chair

Amal Abdel Raouf, Southern Connecticut State University

Treasurer

Winnie Yu, Southern Connecticut State University

Parking and Map

Visitors can park at the Wintergreen Avenue Garage (map location 39). The event will be held at the Adanti Student Center Theater - Room P24 (map location 16).

Shuttle buses are available for travel between the Wintergreen Avenue Garage and the Main Lot (P-2).

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Address

Adanti Student Center Theater - Room P24
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515

Abstract Submission Deadline	September 22, 2023
Abstract Acceptance Notification	October 13, 2023