CFDE 2024 Fall Meeting

October 22-23, 2024

The Bethesdan Hotel – Bethesda, MD

*** Registration for the Fall meeting has closed. ***
If you need to attend, contact Swathi Thaker

Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) will host a two-day, in-person program meeting in Bethesda, MD on October 22nd and 23rd. This will be an opportunity for DCC PIs, Program Managers, and Technical leads to come together to share updates and accomplishments as well as discuss strategic issues for the coming year. Through the leadership of the ICC and in collaboration with the Program Committee, attendees will hear progress and future plans from both current and new CFDE partnerships. There will also be breakout sessions for the Working Groups, as well as discussions around Upcoming Data and Sustainability. Make sure to register and browse below to learn more about the Program Committee as well as view the latest agenda.

Program Committee and Leadership

Phil Blood, PhD

Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh

Scientific Director, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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

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

Matthew Roth, Phd

Matthew Roth, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

Associate Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics

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)

Matthew Wheeler, MD, PhD

Stanford University

Director, Center for Undiagnosed Diseases at Stanford

Adult Medical Director, Center for Undiagnosed Diseases at Stanfordg

Local Dining Options

If you are looking for some dinner/social options in the Bethesda area, check out these fantastic suggestions from George!

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FAQ

Who can attend?

This meeting is intended for DCC leadership. Typically this includes PIs, Program Managers, and/or Technical Leads. This is a smaller meeting for key/lead members of CFDE.

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?

You may register here.

Are there other hotels nearby?

We encourage all attendees to stay at The Bethesdan through the Block rate. However, if you prefer, there are a couple of other options nearby. The Hyatt Regency Bethesda and the Marriott Bethesda Downtown may also be suitable options.

Will meals be provided?

Both Breakfast and Lunch will be provided on October 22nd and 23rd at The Bethesdan Hotel.

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, a listening only virtual option will be provided for those interested.

Where are the sessions located?

Please refer to the below floorplan for room locations.

Agenda

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Time (EST)	Session Title and Presenter	Location
7:30 – 8:30	Breakfast	2nd Floor Lobby
8:30 – 8:40	Welcome and Logistics Presenter: Integration and Coordination Center	Ballroom C+D
8:40 – 9:00	NIH Opening Remarks Presenter: Carolyn Hutter	Ballroom C+D
9:00 – 9:30	New Center Introductions Moderator: Sahana Kukke Training Center: Jennifer Burnette, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Cloud Workspace Implementation Center: John Fonner, Texas Advanced Computing Center	Ballroom C+D
9:30 – 9:45	Break
9:45 – 11:15	Update on FY23-24 CFDE Partnerships Moderator: George Papanicolaou Biomarkers: Daniall Masood COMPA: Data Distillery: Deanne Taylor Workflow Playbook Builder: Daniel Clarke Transcriptome: Matthew Wheeler FAIR Variant: Keyang Yu Cloud Workspace Pilot: Adam Resnick	Ballroom C+D
11:15 – 11:30	Break
11:30 – 12:30	New FY24-25 CFDE Partnerships Moderator: Chris Kinsinger Community Visualization Hub: Nils Gehlenborg UniProt-CFDE Partnership: Cathy Wu Metabotyping Humans: Shankar Subramaniam Biomarker KB: Raja Mazumder Genetic basis of birth defects and childhood cancer U24: Deanne Taylor	Ballroom C+D
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 3:00	Center Updates: DRC, KC, ICC Moderator: Christy Kano DRC: Avi Ma’ayan and Shankar Subramaniam KC: Noel Burtt and Jason Flannick ICC: Jake Chen, Sean Davis, Peipei Ping, Wei Wang	Ballroom C+D
3:00 – 3:30	Break
	Working Group Special Topics (rotation X2, 40 min each)
3:30 – 5:00	Ontology WG: Mano Maurya and Srini Ramachandran	Wisconsin
3:30 – 5:00	Knowledge Graph WG: Deanna Taylor and Jonathan Silverstein	Cordell
3:30 – 5:00	Outreach and Communications: Noel Burtt	Rosedale
	END OF DAY 1

Time (EST)	Session Title and Presenter	Location
7:30 – 8:30	Breakfast	2nd Floor Lobby
8:30 – 10:30	Upcoming CFDE Data 1. SenNet/HuBMAP (30 min + 5 min Q&A), Jonathan Silverstein/Phil Blood 2. Bridge2AI (30 min + 5 min Q&A), Alex Bui 3. MoTrPAC (20 min + 5 min Q&A), Matthew Wheeler 4. ComPASS (20 min + 5 min Q&A), Jan Eberth Moderator: Phil Blood and Peipei Ping	Ballroom C+D
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:00	Future of CFDE: Brainstorming on AI Readiness and Integration 1. Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (20 min + 5 min Q & A), Carl Yang 2. Perspectives from Data Distillery (10 min), Deanne Taylor (w/Jonathan Silverstein) 3. Perspectives from the DRC (10 min), Avi Ma’ayan 4. Perspectives from the KC (5 min) Jason Flannick 5. Q & A for Panel Moderator: George Papanicolaou	Ballroom C+D
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 2:00	Special Topics: Harmonizing CFDE Data to Answer Integrative Questions 1. GetSetCart (10 min), Giacomo Marino (DRC) Moderator: Shankar Subramaniam and Avi Ma’ayan	Ballroom C+D
2:00 – 3:00	Special Topics: Building Methods for Sustainability Moderator: Wei Wang and Jyl Boline	Ballroom C+D
3:00 – 3:15	Wrap-Up and Next Steps Presenter: George Papanicolaou	Ballroom C+D
	END OF CONFERENCE