Received abstracts will be listed here on a periodic basis, and conference presentations will be posted here the week following the conference.
The abstract submission is CLOSED now. If you have any questions, please contact the conference organizing committee.
Poster/Speed Session Titles (alphabetically)
| Presenter | Title | Institution/Affiliation |
| Mohammed Albaqami | Transcriptome-wide analysis of SR45-dependent changes in gene expression and alternative splicing revealed a role for this splicing factor in thermotolerance | Colorado State University |
| Farnoosh Aghababazadeh | Develop a nonlinear mixed-effects model for modeling ovarian cancer cell lines | Moffitt Cancer Center |
| Amira Abdel-Hameed | Global gene expression analysis using RNA-seq uncovered a new role for SR1/CAMTA3 transcription factor in salt stress | Colorado State University |
| Ignacio Alvarez-Castro | Fully Bayesian analysis of allele-specific RNA-seq data using an hierarchical, overdispersed, count regression model | Iowa State University |
| Rachel Blumhagen | Exploring the Landscape of Allele-specific Expression in Nasal Epithelium of Asthmatic Patients and Simulating Allele-Specific Read Counts Accounting for Correlation | University of Colorado |
| Meng Cao | An Optimal Test with Maximum Average Power for Time Course Data of Counts with Applications to RNA-Seq Data | Colorado State University |
| Brian Campbell | Genomic Variation in Industrial Hemp, Feral Hemp, and Drug-type Cannabis sativa | Colorado State University |
| Diana Drago-García | Role of miRNAs in breast cancer regulatory networks | The National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Michael Fundator | TBA | DBASSE of NASEM |
| William Forrest | Statistical models for proteomic analysis of active enzymes | Genentech, Inc. |
| Meera Garg | Study of Antidepressant Molecular Structure Leading to Safer Dosing | Charter School of Wilmington, Delaware |
| Jason Grundstad | MetaGEO: an R package/R-Shiny mashup app for simultaneously exploring multiple GEO datasets | AbbVie Inc. |
| Stijn Hawinkel | A broken promise: microbiome differential abundance methods do not control the false discovery rate | Ghent University |
| Zonglin He | Cohort study informatics: methods for comparing data quality from different sources using entropy metrics | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| Aliaksandr Hubin | A novel algorithmic approach to Bayesian Logic Regression | University of Oslo |
| Chong Jin | Inferring Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity by Jointly Modeling Copy Number Aberrations and Somatic Point Mutations | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Eugene Katsevich | Multilayer FDR Control for Genetic Association Studies | Stanford University |
| Emily King | Bayesian estimation of virus and antibody dynamical model parameters from next-generation sequencing data | Iowa State University |
| Monchai Kooakachai | Statistical Foundations of Familial Identification | University of Colorado |
| Shuzhen Kuang | Exploring molecular mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder using integrated network analysis | Clemson University |
| Kyunghyun Lee | Differences between telomerase activation and ALT based on the G-Networks | Rice University |
| Qian Li | Negative Binomial Model-Based Clustering to Determine Cancer Subtypes from RNA-Seq Data | Moffitt Cancer Center |
| Oleg Mayba | Empirical Bayesian Approach to High-Sensitivity Variant Calling in Circulating Tumor DNA Samples | Genentech, Inc. |
| Eric Mittman | Bayesian nonparametric analysis of RNA-seq data | Iowa State University |
| Jarad Niemi | fbseq: An R package for fully Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data | Iowa State University |
| Yet Nguyen | Controlling Relevant Covariates By the Addition of Pseudo Variables and Application to Differential Expression Analysis Using RNA-seq | Iowa State University |
| Eric Patterson | Studying Gene Copy Number Variation and Glyphosate Resistance Using Genomics in the Weedy Species, Kochia scoparia | Colorado State University |
| Subrata Paul | Performance of a Polygenic Risk Score for Generalized Vitiligo | University of Colorado |
| Sangeetha Ratnayake | Predicting Disease Causality of Mutations in Human Beta Globin Gene | Hokkaido University |
| Pratyaydipta Rudra | Testing Cross-Phenotype Effects of Rare Variants in Longitudinal Studies of Complex Traits | University of Colorado |
| Youngseok Song | Assessing the local dependence structures of observations on evolving networks based on Markov random Fields | Colorado State University |
| Megan Sorenson | Genome-wide analysis of copy number variation and common facial variation in a large cohort of Bantu Africans | University of Colorado |
| Emileigh Willems | Genome-wide Association of Metabolic Syndrome in a Multi-ethnic Study | University of Colorado |
| Mengjie Yao | Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis | University of Colorado |
| Ye Zheng | Statistical Methods for Profiling 3-Dimensional Chromatin Interactions from Repetitive Regions of Genomes | University of Wisconsin – Madison |
