PROGRAM

Keynote Speakers
Workshops
Abstract Submission

The following is a draft agenda. Up-to-date agenda and details will be available soon.

Monday April 6, 2020                    
8:00AM-9:00AM Registration Opens
9:00AM-9:45AM Keynote Talk: Getting up close and personal with precision medicine: how computational biology is rapidly advancing single-subject studies (S3)
Presenter: Yves A. Lussier, MD
9:45AM Coffee Break
10:00AM-12:00PM Young Scientist Award Sessions
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM-2:30PM Breakout Session 1: Terminologies and Standards in Big Data Analysis Breakout Session 2: Personalize Drug Safety to Prevent Drug-Induced Liver Injury Breakout Session 3: SEQing better medicines: the emerging use of genomic technology in the therapeutic development
2:30PM-3:00PM Coffee Break
3:00PM-3:45PM Keynote Talk: Formula 1: Curated Data + Rigorous Validation = Predictive Models of Chemical Bioactivity and Safety
Presenter: Alexander Tropsha, PhD
3:45PM-5:00PM Business Meeting
 
Tuesday April 7, 2020    
9:00AM-9:45AM Keynote Talk: FAIR data for humans and machines
Presenter: Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD
9:45AM Meeting Announcements
10:00AM-10:30AM Coffee Break
10:30AM-12:00PM Breakout Session 4: Application of Machine Learning in Components of Predictive Public Health Breakout Session 5: Cancer Informatics Breakout Session 6: Model-Informed Drug Discovery and Development: Opportunities and Challenges
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM-2:30PM Breakout Session 7: Trusted Reproducible Applications supporting Data Integrity and Evidence Acceptance in Healthcare Breakout Session 8: Optimizing computer-aided drug discovery and development for swifter response to public outbreaks Breakout Session 9: Omics-Scale Assays for Chemical Safety and Drug Discovery        
2:30PM-3:00PM Coffee Break
3:00PM-3:45PM Keynote Talk: The molecular impact of a year in space and plans for Mars
Presenter: Christopher Mason, PhD:
3:45PM-5:15PM Breakout Session 10: Network biology and medicine Breakout Session 11: Animal Microbiome Consortial (AMC): Best Practices and Opportunities for Advancement Breakout Session 12: Artifcial Intelligence (AI) Shakes Up Drug Discovery
 
Wednesday April 8, 2020             
9:00AM-12:00PM Joint MCBIOS-MAQC Poster Session 1
Coffee Break
Joint MCBIOS-MAQC Poster Session 2
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM-5:00PM Hands-on Workshop 1
Hands-on Workshop 2
5:00PM-7:00PM Evening Reception and Awards Presentations
 
If you have questions, please contact Steve Foley or Weida Tong for further information.