Session Best Talk Winners from the 2025 Trainee Symposium:
Liam Kelley
Boston University
Omics Technologies Across the Cancer Research Continuum I
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"Simulation of human cancer growth using dynamic flux balance analysis"
Moinak Bhattacharya
Stony Brook University
Image-Based Approaches
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"ImmunoDiff: A Diffusion Model for Immunotherapy Response Prediction in Lung Cancer"
Zeynep Kosaloglu-Yalcin
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
General Informatics Resources & Platforms I
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"Meta-Analysis of Neoantigens: Insights from the Cancer Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (CEDAR)"
Payton Fleming
Emory University
General Informatics Resources & Platforms II
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"Uncovering Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Cancer via Protein-Protein Interaction Networks with AVERON"
Ralph Jiang
University of Michigan
Clinical & Population Research
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"Lifetime Risk of Prostate Cancer-Specific Mortality"
Ibel Carri
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Omics Technologies Across the Cancer Research Continuum II
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"Toward Standardization in Neoantigen Prediction: A Systematic Comparison of Mutant Peptide Generation Pipelines"
Best Talk Winners from the 2024 Trainee Symposium:
Julia Herriott (Full-length Talk)
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Clinical and population research
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"Pilot Testing the User Interface for a Novel Algorithm to Process Electronic Adherence Monitoring Device Data"
Daniel Bergman (Full-length Talk)
Johns Hopkins University
Omics technologies across the cancer research continuum
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"Integrating multi-omics analyses into agent-based models made easy: the Bioinformatics Walkthrough for PhysiCell"
Sriya Potluri (Full-length Talk)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Omics technologies across the cancer research continuum
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"ImmunoPheno: A Data-Driven Bioinformatics Platform for the Design and Analysis of Immunophenotyping Experiments"
Kaelyn Long (Full-length Talk)
City University of New York
General informatics resources and platforms
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"Ontology-leveraged metadata harmonization to improve AI/ML application on omics databases"
Helena Winata (Flash Talk)
University of California Los Angeles
Flash Talks
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"EMulSI-Phy: Efficient Multi-Sample Inference of Cancer Phylogeny"
My Hoang (Flash Talk)
Washington University in Saint Louis
Flash Talks
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"pVACsplice: a bioinformatics tool for detecting and prioritizing tumor-specific splicing-derived neoantigen"
Shan He (Flash Talk)
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Flash Talks
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"Elucidating immune-related gene transcriptional programs via factorization of large-scale RNA-profiles"