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Genomics, Personalized Medicine and Health Disparity

Federal Awarding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Biomedical and health sciences researchers, faculty, students, staff are welcome to participate.

Symposium Goals

• Help participants understand Research Data Management towards Genomics, Personalized Medicine and Health Disparity
• Provide a forum for the Research Data related resources  and assistances on UTHSC campus
• Illustrate Research Data Management with practical and methodological examples

Program (Printable PDF version)

9:00 to 9:15 am
Opening & Introduction
Steve Goodman, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research, UTHSC

9:15 to 9:40 am
UTHSC Institutional Procedure & Issues of Data Retention and Ownership
Steven L. Youngentob, PhD, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UTHSC

9:40 -10:00 am
Molecular Tools and Data Analysis
Daniel Johnson, PhD
Molecular Bioinformatics Core (mBIO)
UTHSC

10:00-10:20 am
TriNetX/RedCap and Working with the Advanced Compute Facility at JICS
Robert L. Davis, MD, MPH
Governor's Chair, UTHSC-ORNL Center in Biomedical Informatics 
UTHSC

10:20-10:40 am
Defining Genome Function and Complex Biological Procresses through Multi-Omic Data Integration
Daniel Savic, PhD
Pharmaceutical Sciences
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

10:40-11:00 am
Integration of microRNA-mRNA Interaction Networks with Transcriptomics Data to Increase Experimental Power
Bernie J. Daigle, Jr., Ph.D.
Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science
The University of Memphis

11:00-11:20 am
Genomics Data to Improve Health and Productivity & Animal Colony Software
Robert W. Williams, PhD
UT-ORNL Governor's Chair in Computational Genomics
UTHSC

11:20-11:40 am
Building Code-Less Data Science Pipelines with Rapid Miner
Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, MLS
Health Informatics and Information Management
UTHSC

11:40-12:30
Lunch Break
(Boxed Lunch for first 50)
Sponsored by UTHSC Department of Health Informatics & Information Management

12:30-1:00 pm 
Participants Move on to Respective Workshop Labs
To be seated by 1:15 pm

1:30 to 2:30 pm
Workshops

Workshop 1 (Web-Based): Data Management Best Practices
Shannon Sheridan
National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow
Drexel University Libraries
Venue: SACS Building Auditorium
(Online link will be provided)

Workshop 2 (Hands- on): Molecular Experiment Design and Setup
Cancer Research Building Room 114, 19 S. Manassas
Molecular Bioinformatics Core (mBIO)
UTHSC
(Limited seats available)

Workshop 3 (Hands-on): Research Enterprise Data Warehouse (rEDW)/ TriNetX Appliance
50 N. Dunlap Ave., 364R
Le Bonheur Hospital Research Center
UTHSC-ORNL Center in Biomedical Informatics, UTHSC
(Limited seats available)

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Online Registration

For more information, contact:

Sajeesh Kumar, PhD
Health Informatics and Information Management
UTHSC
Skumar10@uthsc.edu