Conference: Agenda
*Please note, this agenda will be updated with new speaker information often.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024
10:00 AM–10:30 AM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
J. Steven Leeder, PharmD, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
BioNexus KC
Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
10:30 AM – 11:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Harry Caufield, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Finding Harmony Between Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics
11:30 AM–1:00 PM
LUNCH & POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster presenters will provide a 30-second overview of their research to the entire group of attendees.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
DATA STRUCTURE & STANDARDS
Moderator: Harlen Hays, MPH, Cardinal Health
Andrea Gaedigk, PhD, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
PharmVar: Defining Pharmacogene Variation
Timothy Haithcoat, PhD, University of Missouri
Chasing Context: What Should We Know, How Can It Be Integrated
Theodore White, PhD, University of Missouri Kansas City
A Perspective on How Fungal Icd Codes Reflect Clinical Realities
PANEL DISCUSSION
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
DATA VISUALIZATION
Moderator: Martina Clarke, PhD, University of Nebraska Omaha
Marc Libault, PhD, University of Missouri
Towards a System-Level Understanding of Soybean-Rhizobia Symbiosis at the Single Cell Level
Sanjiv Bhatia, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis
AuPAIr: Automated Precipitation Aware Irrigation
Yugyung Lee, PhD, University of Missouri Kansas City
Unsupervised Segmentation with SAM and LLMs for Explainable Medical Image Analysis for Cancer and Alzheimer’s Detection
PANEL DISCUSSON
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
BREAK
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
SYSTEMS STRATEGIES
Moderator: Dong Pei, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center
Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, Center for Practical Bioethics
AI in Healthcare- Balancing Risk and Opportunity
Elebeoba May, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sanzhen Liu, PhD, Kansas State University
Decoding Genomes of a Wheat Blast Pathogen
PANEL DISCUSSION
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
CAREER PANEL
Moderator: Chad Grittman, BioNexus KC
Joshua Koni, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
Stacy Farr, PhD, MPH, Saint Luke’s Health System
Dana Nayduch, PhD, USDA-ARS
Lee Zuvanich, Adva Digital Solutions
PANEL DISCUSSION
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
NETWORKING & DINNER
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024
7:30 AM–8:00 AM
BREAKFAST
8:00 AM–8:10 AM
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
8:10 AM – 9:00 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, Equality AI
Responsible AI in Healthcare: A Practical Approach
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
DATA ANALYSIS / AI
Moderator: Gayla Olbricht, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Paul de Figueiredo, PhD, Christopher S Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri
Microbial Medicines for Addressing Human Disease
Petruta Caragea, PhD, Iowa State University
F(unctional) ANOVA for Data with Complex Dependence and its Application to Satellite-derived Vegetation Indexes
Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM, University of Kansas Medical Center
AI interpretation of ECGs
PANEL DISCUSSION
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM–11:30 AM
IMAGE ANALYSIS
Moderator: Irina Pushel, PhD, Children’s Mercy
Joe Shaffer, PhD, Kansas City University
Improving Interpretability Using Randomized Input Sampling (Rise)
Jiwoong Choi, PhD, University of Kansas School of Medicine
What Happens in Your Lungs: Quantitative CT, Computational Physics, and Machine Learning
Raj Logan, PhD, Wichita State University
Cell and Tissue Live Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities
PANEL DISCUSSION
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
DATA APPLICATION
Moderator: Sharlee Climer, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Mark Clements, MD, PhD, Children’s Mercy
The Rising T1DE Alliance: A Transformational Initiative to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Care
Scott Swain, PhD, Cardinal Health
Joel Burken, Missouri S&T
PANEL DISCUSSION