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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 Thursday 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 2025 Schedule (11am – 12 pm) 

January 9, 2025

  • Speaker: Nate Pajor, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Presentation: Big Data, Bigger Problems: ChatGPT Can Suggest a Clever Title for this Talk but a Learning Health System is Hard to Build!

January 30, 2025

  • Speaker: Robert Grundmeier, PhD Director of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
  • Presentation: Machine Learning and Uncertainty in Pediatric Clinical Decisions

February 13, 2025

  • Speaker: Yuriy Baglaenko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Presentation: To be announced

February 27, 2025

  • Speaker: Peter Koo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Presentation: Interpreting Rules of Gene Regulation with Deep Learning

March 13, 2025

  • Speaker: Zhana Duren, PhD, Assistant Professor at Clemson University
  • Presentation: To be announced

April 10, 2025

  • Speaker: Christina Theodoris, PhD, Assistant Professor at Gladstone Institutes
  • Presentation: To be announced

April 24, 2025

  • Speaker: Daehwan Kim, PhD, President and CTO Omphalos Lifesciences Inc.
  • Presentation: Language of Life, Human Code, and Digital Human

May 8, 2025

  • Speaker: Stephany N. Duda, PhD, FIAHSI, Associate Professor,  Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine - Vanderbilt University
  • Presentation: To be announced

May 22, 2025

  • Speaker: Sushmita Roy, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Presentation: Defining Cell Type-specific Gene Regulatory Programs from Bulk and Single Cell Omic Datasets

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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.