CFDE Spring 2025 Meeting

CFDE 2025 Spring Meeting

March 25-26, 2025

Bethesda Marriott
5151 Pooks Hill Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814

*Submissions for Abstracts and/or Demos has closed.*

**Registration has closed. If you need to register please contact Swathi Thaker.**

Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) will host a two-day, in-person program meeting in Bethesda, MD on March 25th and 26th. This will be an opportunity for CFDE members to come together to share projects and accomplishments across the Consortium. There will be opportunities for posters and demos as well!

Program Committee and Leadership

Jyl Boline, PhD

Founder, Informed Minds

Jake Chen, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
& Data Science

Director, Systems AI Pharmacology Center (SPARC)

Christy Kano, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

CFDE Coordinator and Project Manager
Office of Strategic CoordinationDivision of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives

Office of the Director

Chris Kinsinger, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Assistant Director for Catalytic Data Resources
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director

Sahana Kukke, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

CFDE Program Officer
Program Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director

Jennifer Burnette, MPH

ORAU

Program Manager

Alissa Dillman, PhD

BioData Sage

Founder and CEO

Avi Ma’ayan, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

Mano Maurya, PhD

University of California San Diego

Senior Scientist

Department of Bioengineering

Rahi Navelkar

Harvard Medical School

Bioinformatics Associate and Data Wrangler

George Papanicolaou, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

CFDE Program Officer
Program Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director

Peipei Ping, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Professor, Dept. of Professor of Physiology, Medicine/Cardiology, and Biomedical Informatics

Jonathan Silverstein, PhD

University of Pittsburgh

Chief Research Informatics Officer, Health Sciences and Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM)

Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), School of Medicine

Shankar Subramanium, PhD

University of California San Diego

Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Computer Science & Engineering, Cellular & Molecular Medicine and Nano Engineering

Swathi Thaker, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program Operations Manager
Systems AI Pharmacology Center (SPARC)

Agenda

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Time (EST)	Session Title & Presenter	Location
7:30 – 8:45	Registration & Breakfast	Grand Ballroom
8:45 – 9:00	Welcome by Jake Chen	Grand Ballroom
9:00 – 9:15	NIH Opening Remarks by Chris Kinsinger	Grand Ballroom
9:15 – 10:45	Session 1: CFDE Center Updates DRC, KC, ICC, Cloud Computing, Training Moderator: Christy Kano	Grand Ballroom
10:45 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Session 2: Innovative Tools to Analyze Common Fund Data Moderator: Deanne Taylor	Grand Ballroom
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch	On-Site

Breakout: Tech Showcase (Descriptions)

Time (EST)	Track 3A	Track 3B	Track 3C
Location	Bethesda Potomac	Rockville/Chevy Chase	Salon E
1:30 – 1:50	Virtual Reality Enables Multiscale Exploration of the Human Reference Atlas	Community Visualization Hub: Current Features and Roadmap	Digital Scavenger Hunt: Come explore datasets, tools, and portals within the CFDE in an interactive and engaging way. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook or iPad with them to this event.
1:50 – 2:10	GeneSetCart: Assembling, Augmenting, Combining, Visualizing, and Analyzing CFDE Gene Sets	Playbook Workflow Builder: Interactive Construction of Bioinformatics Workflows from Common Fund Supported Building Blocks	Digital Scavenger Hunt
2:10-2:30	CFDE Talent Knowledge Graph	Graph Query Interface for C2M2 Data Search and Discovery	Digital Scavenger Hunt

Time (EST)	Session Title & Presenter	Location
2:30 – 2:45	Coffee Break
2:45 – 3:45	Session 4 (Parallel a/b/c) Junior Scholar Lightning Talks Moderator: Allissa Dillman	Grand Ballroom
3:45 – 5:00	Session 5. Poster Presentation & Judging	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 – 6:00	Networking Reception
	END OF DAY 1

Time (EST)	Session Title & Presenter	Location
7:30 – 8:15	Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30	Day 2 Agenda Overview by Jake Chen	Grand Ballroom

Breakout: Working Groups

Time (EST)	Track 5A	Track 5B	Track 5C	Track 5D
Location	Bethesda Potomac	Rockville/Chevy Chase	Salon E	Grand Ballroom
Topic / Host	Ontology Mano Maurya and Srini Ramachandran	Knowledge Graph Deanne Taylor and Johnathan Silverstein	Trainers Allissa Dillman and Jennifer Burnette	Outreach Noel Burtt and MacKenzie Brandes
8:30 – 9:00	Overview of C2M2 and metadata submission (ends at 9:15)	Updates on Data Distillery (current state of DDKG)	Summer Mentorship Program (ends at 9:15)	Charter Finalization
9:00 – 9:30	(Begins at 9:15) Addressing pending topics/questions from OWG meetings	Community Updates	Landscape Analysis Results and Collaboratively working to address Recommendations	Outreach Tools and Resources
9:30-10:00		Technologies and standards; LLMs and KGs	None	Future Events

10:00 – 10:15 – Coffee Break

Breakout: Partnership & Science

	Track 6A	Track 6B	Track 6C
Location	Bethesda Potomac	Rockville/Chevy Chase	Salon E
10:15 – 11:00	Biomarker (Closed Session)	Gene Set Curation (Open to all)	Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all) Topic: End User Perspectives – Using the Hub for research
11:00 – 11:45	Metabotyping (Closed Session)	Gene Set Curation (Open to all)	Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all) Topic: Tool Builder Perspectives – Incorporating the Hub in your software

Time (EST)	Session Title & Presenter	Location
11:45 – 1:00	Lunch	On-site

↓	Interactive Panels: Lessons & Future	↓
1:00 – 1:30	Bridging Communities: Integrating CFDE with External Data Networks Moderator: Jeffrey Grethe	Grand Ballroom
1:30 – 2:00	Sustaining the CFDE Ecosystem Moderators: Peipei Ping and Wei Wang	Grand Ballroom
2:00 – 2:30	Strategies to Grow the CFDE User Base Moderators: Bernard de Bono and Noel Burtt	Grand Ballroom
2:30 – 3:00	Townhall	Grand Ballroom
3:00 – 3:10	Conclusion Moderator: NIH	Grand Ballroom
	END OF DAY 2

1. Leveraging Large-Scale Electronic Healthcare Records with Oracle Real World Data to Illuminate Precision Molecular Biomarkers: Troponin and PSA Use Case Development

Vincent T. Metzger, Cristian G. Bologa, Noah G. Reboul, Christophe G. Lambert and Jeremy J. Yang, University of New Mexico

2. KG2ML: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Positive Unlabeled Learning for Identifying Disease-Associated Genes with Case Studies for 12 Diseases

Praveen Kumar, University of New Mexico

3. Spatially varying cell-specific gene regulation network inference

Yurui Li, UIUC; Jin Chen, Cleveland Clinic; Haohan Wang, UIUC

4. KG-UI: Interactive Web Interface for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Applications

John Erol Evangelista, Anna I. Byrd, Andrew Lutsky, Ho-Young Chung, Alexander Lachmann, Giacomo B. Marino, Sherry L. Jenkins, and Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

5. ChEA-KG: Human Transcription Factor Regulatory Network with a Knowledge Graph Interactive User Interface

Anna I. Byrd, John Erol Evangelista, Alexander Lachmann, Ho-Young Chung, Sherry L. Jenkins and Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

6. Identifying exercise-mimetic drugs using LINCS and MoTrPAC data

Pauline Brochet, David Jimenez-Morales, Malene E Lindholm, Matthew T Wheeler and Daniel H. Katz, Stanford University

7. Designing and Building a Simple, Scalable, and Extensible Data Ingestion Pipeline

Joseph Okonda, Qiuyue Liu, Jared Nedzel and Kristin Ardlie, Broad Institute

8. L2S2: Chemical Perturbation and CRISPR KO LINCS L1000 Signature Search Engine

Giacomo B. Marino, John E. Evangelista, Daniel J. B. Clarke and Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

9. Advancing Training in the Common Fund Data Ecosystem: Insights from a Landscape Analysis

DeBran Tarver, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU); Kristi Sadowski, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU); Jennifer Burnette, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU); Allissa Dillman, BioData Sage LLC; LaFrancis Gibson, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU); David Burns, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU); Diane Krause, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)

10. BiomarkerKB: A Comprehensive Biomarker Knowledgebase

Daniall Masood, The George Washington School of Medicine

11. The CFDE Workbench: Integrating Metadata and Processed Data from Common Fund Programs

John Erol Evangelista, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Daniel J.B. Clarke, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Zhuorui Xie, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Stephanie Olaiya, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Heesu Kim, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Giacomo B. Marino, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Anna Byrd, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Shivaramakrishna Srinivasan, University of California San Diego; Sumana Srinivasan, University of California San Diego; Mano R. Maurya, University of California San Diego; Sherry L. Jenkins, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Andrew D. Lutsky, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Lucas Sasaya, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Alexander Lachmann, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Nasheath Ahmed, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Ido Diamant, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Ethan Sanchez, University of California San Diego; Srinivasan Ramachandran, University of California San Diego; Shankar Subramaniam, University of California San Diego; Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

12. Cultivating Tomorrow’s Scientists: Insights from the 2024 CFDE-GlyGen Internship and 2025 Internship plans

Jeet Vora, The George Washington University; Melody Perlman-Porterfield, University of Georgia; Rene Ranzinger, The George Washington University; Michael Tiemeyer, University of Georgia; Raja Mazumder, The George Washington University

13. Preparing and Serving Common Supported Highly Processed Datasets in the Croissant Metadata Standard

Ido Diamant, Daniel J. B. Clarke and Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

14. The CFDE Data Distillery Project

Benjamin J. Stear, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Taha Mohseni Ahooyi, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; J. Alan Simmons, The University of Pittsburgh; Christopher M. Nemarich, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Jonathan C. Silverstein, The University of Pittsburgh; Deanne M. Taylor, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania

15. GeneSight: Advancing Insights into Complex Genetic Traits through CFDE-Enriched Knowledge Graphs

Cheng-Han Chung, Chris Bizon, Corbin Jones, Jason Reilly, Matthew Niederhuber and Evan Morris, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

16. Inferring tissue aging clocks from blood transcriptomics

Minja Belic, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

17. Defining the Human Metabotype through Genetic, Diet, Environmental Exposure and Exercise Perturbations

Sara Rahiminejad, University of California, San Diego; Mano R. Maurya, University of California, San Diego; David Jimenez-Morales, Stanford University; Daniel H Katz, Stanford University; Jimmy Zhen, Stanford University; Wimal Pathmasiri, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Blake Rushing, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Susan McRitchie, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Sumana Srinivasan, University of California, San Diego; Srinivasan Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego; Eoin Fahy, University of California, San Diego; Vishal Midya, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Lauren Petrick, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Susan L. Teitelbaum, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Susan Sumner, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Matthew T. Wheeler, Stanford University; Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego

18. Characterizing the Immune Landscape of Pediatric and Adult Cancers

Tianyuzhou Liang, Li-Ju Wang, Yi-Nan Gong, and Yu-Chiao Chiu, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

19. The EDRN Knowledge Environment for Cancer Biomarker Research

Daniel Crichton, Heather Kincaid, Alphan Altinok, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Kristen Anton, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

20. Expanding the CFDE Data Distillery Knowledge Graph for Childhood Cancer and Birth Defects Research: a CFDE U24 project

Benjamin J. Stear, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Taha Mohseni Ahooyi, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Dave D. Hill, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Ryan Corbett, Indiana University; J. Alan Simmons, University of Pennsylvania; Rebecca Kaufman, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Adam Resnick, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & Indiana University; Sarah Tasian, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania; Kristina Cole, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Jonathan Silverstein, University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Goldmuntz, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania; Jo Lynne Rokita, Indiana University; Sharon Diskin, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania; Deanne M. Taylor, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

21. Building the Developmental Human Reference Atlas (dHRA): A CFDE-Integrated Framework for Pediatric Anatomical and Genomic Data

Taha Mohseni Ahooyi, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; David Biko, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania; Axel Bolin, Indiana University; Andreas Bueckle, Indiana University; Bruce W. Herr II, Indiana University; Shivaram Karandikar , The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Rebecca Linn, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & Indiana University; Elizabeth Maier, Indiana University; Nancy Ruschman, Indiana University; Jakob Seidlitz, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania; Shiping Zhang, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Katy Börner, Indiana University; Deanne M. Taylor, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania

22. Gene Set Foundation Model Applied to Augment Gene Sets Created from Common Fund Supported Resources

Daniel J. B. Clarke and Avi Ma’ayan, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

23. Crosscut Metadata Model (C2M2) Parsing for Enhanced Search on the CFDE Data Portal

Shivaramakrishna Srinivasan, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC); Ethan Sanchez, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC); Sumana Srinivasan, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC); Mano R. Maurya, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC); Srinivasan Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC); Daniel J.B. Clarke, CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC) & Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Avi Ma’ayan, CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC) & Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics; Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego & CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC) & San Diego Supercomputer Center

24. Building a Bioinformatics Ecosystem for Large-Scale Multi-Omics Research: Lessons from MoTrPAC

David Jimenez-Morales, Stanford University School of Medicine; David Amar, Stanford University School of Medicine; Malene E. Lindholm, Stanford University School of Medicine; Mihir Samdarshi, Stanford University School of Medicine; Archana N Raja, Stanford University School of Medicine; Jimmy Zhen, Stanford University School of Medicine; Jiye Yu, Stanford University School of Medicine; Sam Montalvo, Stanford University School of Medicine; Daniel H Katz, Stanford University School of Medicine; Ashley Xia, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Euan A Ashley, Stanford University School of Medicine; Matthew T Wheeler, Stanford University School of Medicine

25. Detection of Aberrant Expression, Rare Variant, and Splicing Outliers in Rare Disease Patients – CFDE Transcriptome Variability Partnership

Archana Natarajan Raja, Stanford University School of Medicine; Alex Miller, Stanford University School of Medicine; Abhishek Choudhary, Broad Institute; Lisa Anderson, Broad Institute; Matthew Wheeler, Stanford University School of Medicine; Stephen B. Montgomery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Kristin Ardlie, Broad Institute

26. Probing the Breadth of the Molecular Response to Exercise using Common Funds Metabolomics Data

Christopher Patsalis, Abraham Raskind, Alla Karnovsky, Charles F. Burant and Charles R. Evans, University of Michigan

27. STRIDE Principles for AI-Ready and Sustainable Datasets

Catilin Ree, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Steven Swee, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP; Erika Yilin Zheng, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Miriam Ojeda, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Jack Rincon, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology; Irsyad Adam, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP; Dean Wang, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology; Wei Wang, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP, Department of Computer Science, UCLA; Peipei Ping, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, UCLA

28. Preliminary Analysis of Existing CFDE Programs and Suggestions for their Future Data Hosts

Ethan Ji, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology; Catilin Ree, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Namuna Pandy, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Miriam Ojeda, CFDE ICC-SC, UCLA Department of Physiology; Jack Rincon, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology; Dean Wang, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology; Wei Wang, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP, Department of Computer Science, UCLA; Peipei Ping, CFDE ICC-SC, Bridge2AI Center TRM & Integrated Cardiovascular Data Science Training Program, UCLA Department of Physiology, Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics IDP, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, UCLA

Tuesday, March 25

Tue. 25

Wed. 26

Floorplan

7:30 – 8:45 (Grand Ballroom)

Registration & Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 (Grand Ballroom)

Welcome by Jake Chen

8:40 – 9:00 (Grand Ballroom)

NIH Opening Remarks by Chris Kinsinger

9:15 – 10:45 (Grand Ballroom)

Session 1: CFDE Center Updates

DRC, KC, ICC, Training, Cloud Computing

Moderator: Christy Kano

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 (Grand Ballroom)

Session 2: Innovative Tools to Analyze Common Fund Data

Moderator: Deanne Taylor

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

Breakout: Tech Showcase
1:30 – 1:50 Track 3A (Bethesda Potomac) Virtual Reality Enables Multiscale Exploration of the Human Reference Atlas Track 3B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) Community Visualization Hub: Current Features and Roadmap Track 3A (Salon E) Digital Scavenger Hunt: Come explore datasets, tools, and portals within the CFDE in an interactive and engaging way. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook or iPad with them to this event.
1:50 – 2:10 Track 3A (Bethesda Potomac) GeneSetCart: Assembling, Augmenting, Combining, Visualizing, and Analyzing CFDE Gene Sets Track 3B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) Community Visualization Hub: Current Features and Roadmap Track 3A (Salon E) Digital Scavenger Hunt: Come explore datasets, tools, and portals within the CFDE in an interactive and engaging way. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook or iPad with them to this event.
2:10-2:30 Track 3A (Bethesda Potomac) CFDE Talent Knowledge Graph Track 3B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) Graph Query Interface for C2M2 Data Discovery Track 3A (Salon E) Digital Scavenger Hunt: Come explore datasets, tools, and portals within the CFDE in an interactive and engaging way. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook or iPad with them to this event.

2:30 – 2:45 (Grand Ballroom)

Coffee Break

2:45 – 3:45 (Grand Ballroom)

Session 4 (Parallel a/b/c) Junior Scholar Lightning Talks
Moderator: Allissa Dillman

3:45 – 5:00 (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Session 5. Poster Presentation & Judging

5:00 – 6:00

Networking Reception

End of Day 1

Wednesday, March 26

Tue. 25

Wed. 26

Floorplan

7:30 – 8:15

Breakfast

8:15 – 8:30 (Grand Ballroom)

Day 2 Agenda Overview by Jake Chen

Breakout: Working Groups
8:30 – 9:00 Track 5A (Bethesda Potomac) – Ontology Working Group Moderators: Mano Maurya and Srini Ramachandran Topic: Overview of C2M2 and metadata submission (8:30-9:15am) Track 5B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) – Knowledge Graph Working Group Moderators: Deanne Taylor and Jonathan Silverstein Topic: Updates on Data Distillery (current state of DDKG) Track 5C (Salon E) – Trainers Working Group Moderators: Allissa Dillman and Jennifer Burnette Topic: Summer Mentorship Program (ends at 9:15) Track 5D (Grand Ballroom) – Communications & Outreach Working Group Moderators: Noel Burtt and MacKenzie Brandes Topic: Charter Finalization
9:00 – 9:30 Track 5A (Bethesda Potomac) – Ontology Working Group Moderators: Mano Maurya and Srini Ramachandran Topic: Overview of C2M2 and metadata submission (8:30-9:15am) Track 5B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) – Knowledge Graph Working Group Moderators: Deanne Taylor and Jonathan Silverstein Topic: Community Updates Track 5C (Salon E) – Trainers Working Group Moderators: Allissa Dillman and Jennifer Burnette Topic: Landscape Analysis Results and Collaboratively working to address Recommendations Track 5D (Grand Ballroom) – Communications & Outreach Working Group Moderators: Noel Burtt and MacKenzie Brandes Topic: Outreach resources and Tools
9:30-10:00 Track 5A (Bethesda Potomac) – Ontology Working Group Moderators: Mano Maurya and Srini Ramachandran Topic: Addressing pending topics/questions from OWG meetings (9:15-10:00) Track 5B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) – Knowledge Graph Working Group Moderators: Deanne Taylor and Jonathan Silverstein Topic: Technologies and standards; LLMs and KGs Track 5C (Salon E) – Trainers Working Group Moderators: Allissa Dillman and Jennifer Burnette Topic: None Track 5D (Grand Ballroom) – Communications & Outreach Working Group Moderators: Noel Burtt and MacKenzie Brandes Topic: Future Events

10:00 – 10:15 – Coffee Break

Breakout: Partnership & Science
10:15 – 11:00 Track 6A (Bethesda Potomac) Biomarker (Closed Partnership Meeting) Track 6B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) Gene Set Curation (Open to all) Track 6C (Salon E) Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all) Topic: End User Perspectives: Join if you want to use hub in your research
11:00 – 11:45 Track 6A (Bethesda Potomac) Metabotyping (Closed Partnership Meeting) Track 6B (Rockville/Chevy Chase) Gene Set Curation (Open to all) Track 6C (Salon E) Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all) Topic: Tool Builder Perspectives: Join if you want to incorporate the hub in your software

Breakout: Partnership & Science

10:15 – 11:00

Track 6A (Bethesda Potomac)

Biomarker (Closed Partnership Meeting)

Track 6B (Rockville/Chevy Chase)

Gene Set Curation (Open to all)

Track 6C (Salon E)

Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all)

Topic: End User Perspectives: Join if you want to use hub in your research

11:00 – 11:45

Track 6A (Bethesda Potomac)

Metabotyping (Closed Partnership Meeting)

Track 6B (Rockville/Chevy Chase)

Gene Set Curation (Open to all)

Track 6C (Salon E)

Community Visualization Hub: Collaborative Data Visualization Platform for Genomics and Single-cell data (Open to all)

Topic: Tool Builder Perspectives: Join if you want to incorporate the hub in your software

11:45 – 1:00 (On-site)

Lunch

↓ Interactive Panels: Lessons & Future ↓
(Grand Ballroom)

1:00 – 1:30

Bridging Communities: Integrating CFDE with External Data Networks
Moderator: Jeffrey Grethe

1:30 – 2:00

Sustaining the CFDE Ecosystem
Moderators: Peipei Ping and Wei Wang

2:00 – 2:30

Strategies to Grow the CFDE User Base
Moderators: Bernard de Bono and Noel Burtt

2:30 – 3:00

Townhall

3:00 – 3:10

Conclusion
Moderator: NIH

END OF DAY 2

Floor Plan

Tue. 25

Wed. 26

Floor Plan

FAQ

Who can attend?

This meeting is intended for all consortium members.

Who can I contact if I have questions?

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Swathi Thaker at snthaker@uab.edu

How do I register?

Registration closed on March 1, 2025.

Will meals be provided?

Both Breakfast and Lunch will be provided onsite.

Will there be a virtual option?

This meeting is designed to be an in-person event and we highly encourage everyone to attend on site. However, if you need to attend virtually, you can use the below Zoom link:

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Where are the sessions located?

Dining Options

For those interested, the hotel offers complimentary shuttle service to Downtown Bethesda. It has stops at Medical Center Metro Station and Bethesda Downtown (Marriott Headquarters). The Shuttle runs every hour from 6:30am – 7:30pm. Pick up times from each shuttle stop is approximately 10 minutes after the posted shuttle departure time. Below is a list of restaurants that are relatively.

Below is a list of restaurants recommended by the hotel.

Italian

Pinstripes
11920 Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(240) 630-3222
Mama Lucia
12274 Rockville Pike M, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 770-4894
Chef Tony’s Amalfi
12307 Wilkins Ave, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 770-7888

Indian

Commonwealth Indian
11610 Old Georgetown Rd, Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 833-3055
Om Indian
785 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 279-7700
Bombay Bistro
98 W Montgomery Ave, Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 762-8798

Thai

Tara Thai
12071 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 231-9899
Bangkok Garden
891 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 545-2848
Taipei Tokyo
11510 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 881-8388

Seafood

Seasons 52
11414 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 208S2
(301) 984-5252
Bethesda Crab House
4958 Bethesda Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 652-3382
Live Crawfish & Seafood
765 Rockville Pike Ste F-G, Rockvllle, MD 20852
(301) 978-7988

American

Clydes Tower Oaks Lodge
2 Preserve Pkwy, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 294-0200
Summer House
11825 Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 881-2381
Matchbox
1699 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 816-0369

Sushi

Kusshi Sushi
11826 Trade St, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(240) 770-0355
Hinode
134 Congressional Ln, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 816-2190
Sushi Oma
967 Rose Ave, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 664-3129

Latin

Nada
11886 Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 770-4040
La Brasa
12401 Parklawn Dr, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 468-8850
Marquez Pupuseria
890 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 855-9781

Asian

Pho Eateries
11618 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 669-9777
Far East Restaurant
5055 Nicholson Ln, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 881-5552
China Garden
11333 Woodglen Dr, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 881-2800

Pizza

Stella Barra
1182S Grand Park Ave, North Bethesda, MD 208S2
(301) 770-8609
Armands
190 Halpine Rd, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 231-5000
MOD Pizza
12027 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 287-4284

Vegan/Vegetarian

Siena’s
4840 Boiling Brook Pkwy, North Bethesda, MD 208S2
(301) 770-7474
Flower Child
1020S Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 664-4971
PLNT Burger
113SS Woodglen Dr, Rockville, MD 208S2
(202) 933-5414

Bar

Hank Dietle’s Tavern
11010 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 512-3077
Quincy’s South
11401 Woodglen Dr, Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 669-3270
Owens Tavern
11820 Trade St, North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 245-1226