Discover the voices shaping the future of biomedical informatics.
Our retreat showcases the depth and diversity of DBMI’s community through a dynamic mix of faculty presentations, trainee lightning talks, and poster sessions.
From established experts to emerging voices, these presenters are sharing cutting-edge research, sparking new ideas, and inviting collaboration across disciplines. Explore their work and join the conversation during sessions and breaks.
| Presenter | Poster Title |
Jacklyn Ashmus | Sex Stratified Autoimmune eQTLs in Human PBMCs |
| Akshay Kumar Avvaru | Somatic mosaicism at the FMR1 CGG repeat in different brain tissues of FXTAS patients |
Banabithi Bose | A network model for predicting personalized drug response in breast cancer using tumor multi-omics data |
Evan Brenner | Identifying the genetic origins of bacterial pathogen adaptation using machine learning |
Sarah Brotman (Zweifel) | Dissecting the genetic basis of sexually dimorphic neurological traits through brain gene expression differences |
Dave Bunten | Improving Research Software with the Software Gardening Almanack |
He Cheng | Agentic Reasoning over Graphs: Empowering LLMs for Clinical Decision Support |
Julia Curd | Characterizing and Targeting Gene Process Dependencies in Cancer with BioBombe (Multi-Model Machine Learning Approach) |
Ralf Dagdag | Personalizing Care: Utilizing Healthcare Data to Predict Patient Responses to Frontline Clinical Interventions in Advanced-Stage Prostate Cancer |
| Abhirupa Ghosh | Exploring multiple antibiotic resistance in ESKAPE using genomics and machine learning |
| Parker Hicks | Cross-modal machine learning enables researchers to easily leverage public transcriptomics samples for data-driven discovery of biomedical contexts associated |
| Adriana Ivich | Adipocyte burden defines a high-risk micro-environment in HGSOC |
Maya Kruse | An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Multi-LLM Uncertainty Estimation |
Emma Lathouwers | (Mis)paired samples investigation |
| Keenan Manpearl | Leveraging molecular networks and ontology structure for predicting novel genes that play a role in understudied functions, traits, and diseases |
James Martin | EVALUATION OF PHARMACOGENOMIC CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT ALERTS FOR SUPPORTIVE CARE MEDICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROINTESTINAL CANCERS |
Nicole McDaniel | Warfarin Pharmacogenomics Dose Calculator |
Alaa Radwan | Association of White Blood Cell Count Polygenic Scores with Mycophenolate-Induced Leukopenia after Solid Organ Transplantation |
Lucas Rozell | Ethically Engaging Underrepresented Participants in Biomedical Research: Perspectives on Return of Results from the CCPM Biobank |
Suraju Sadeeq | PONG 2.0: Allele imputation for the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors |
| Kewalin Samart | SigMatch: a transcriptome-based regression method to detect mechanistic links across diseases and drugs |
Ashley Scadden | Altered Gut Microbiota in Daily Caloric Restriction versus Intermittent Fasting Trial (DRIFT) Participants |
Kristen Sutton | The effects of adipose tissue gene expression on cardiometabolic traits |
Katerina Terwelp | Predicting horizontal gene transfer in the smallest cyanobacteria: Prochlorococcus |
Jenna Tomkinson | Cell Painting and machine learning distinguish nonfailing from failing human cardiac fibroblasts |