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Events

The Biomedical Informatics team at Cincinnati Children’s offers several event series for the research community. All interested faculty, staff and students are welcome. 

Our Friday Research Seminar Series is offered virtually via Zoom. Topics will rotate between:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Genomics
  • Systems Biology

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Spring 2024 Schedule (11am – 12 pm) 

January 26, 2024

  • Topic: Biomedical Informatics
  • Speaker: Danny T. Y. Wu , PhD, MS; Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  • Presentation: Assessing the Readability of Health Information

February 9, 2024

  • Topic: Biomedical Informatics
  • Speaker: Yunguan Wang, PhD; Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics; Divisions of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Presentation: Data Science for Spatial Transcriptomics

February 23, 2024

  • Topic: Genomics
  • Speaker: Siyuan Zheng, PhD; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute; UT Health San Antonio
  • Presentation: To be announced

March 8, 2024

  • Topic: Computational Biology
  • Speaker: Vikram Ravindra, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; University of Cincinnati
  • Presentation: Computational Methods for Functional Connectomics 

April 5, 2024

  • Topic: Biomedical Informatics
  • Speaker: Krishna Roskin, PhD: Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics; Division of Biomedical Informatics and Immunobiology; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Presentation: Early Life Alterations of the Immune Repertoire Associated with Food Allergy

April 9, 2024

  • Topic: Biomedical Informatics
  • Speaker: Sandra Andorf, PhD; Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics; Division of Biomedical Informatics and Allergy and Immunology; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Presentation: To be announced

May 3, 2024

  • Topic: Clinical Informatics
  • Speaker: Chunhua Weng, PhD; Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Columbia University
  • Presentation: To be announced

May 31, 2024

  • Topic: Biomedical Informatics
  • Speaker: Yvan Saeys, PhD; Principal Investigator - Data Mining and Modelling for Biomedicine Group, Inflammation Research Center, VIB; Associate Professor (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent); Partner (Bioinformatics Institute Ghent)
  • Presentation: To be announced

Zoom Meeting Information

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Presentations may be recorded for the University of Cincinnati's distance learning, graduate-level course BMIN 7003 – Biomedical Informatics Seminar

The Bioinformatics Users Group (BUG) is a community of bioinformatics researchers and data scientists looking to sharing knowledge, insights, and build community. We organized a series of user-led, informal talks and discussions by and for data researchers at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati. Please contact Krishna Roskin at krishna.roskin@cchmc.org for more details or to sign up to present at a future BUGs meeting.