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

Jyl Boline, PhD

Founder, Informed Minds

Jake Chen, PhD

Jake Chen, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
& Data Science

Director, Systems AI Pharmacology Center (SPARC)

Christy Kano, PhD

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

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

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

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

Mano Maurya, PhD

University of California San Diego

Senior Scientist

Department of Bioengineering

Rahi Navelkar

Rahi Navelkar

Harvard Medical School

Bioinformatics Associate and Data Wrangler

George Papanicolaou, PhD

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

Peipei Ping, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

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

Jonathan Silverstein, PhD

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

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

Swathi Thaker, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program Operations Manager
Systems AI Pharmacology Center (SPARC)

Agenda
Tue. March 25
Time (EST)Session Title & PresenterLocation
7:30 – 8:45Registration & Breakfast
Grand Ballroom
8:45 – 9:00Welcome by Jake Chen
Grand Ballroom
9:00 – 9:15NIH Opening Remarks by Chris Kinsinger
Grand Ballroom
9:15 – 10:45Session 1: CFDE Center Updates

DRC, KC, ICC, Cloud Computing, Training 

Moderator: Christy Kano
Grand Ballroom
10:45 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30Session 2: Innovative Tools to Analyze Common Fund Data

Moderator: Deanne Taylor
Grand Ballroom
12:30 – 1:30LunchOn-Site

Breakout: Tech Showcase (Descriptions)

Time (EST)Track 3ATrack 3BTrack 3C
LocationBethesda PotomacRockville/Chevy ChaseSalon E
1:30 – 1:50Virtual Reality Enables Multiscale Exploration of the Human Reference AtlasCommunity Visualization Hub: Current Features and RoadmapDigital 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 – 2:10GeneSetCart: Assembling, Augmenting, Combining, Visualizing, and Analyzing CFDE Gene SetsPlaybook Workflow Builder: Interactive Construction of Bioinformatics Workflows from Common Fund Supported Building BlocksDigital Scavenger Hunt
2:10-2:30CFDE Talent Knowledge GraphGraph Query Interface for C2M2 Data Search and DiscoveryDigital Scavenger Hunt

Time (EST)Session Title & PresenterLocation
2:30 – 2:45Coffee Break
2:45 – 3:45Session 4 (Parallel a/b/c) Junior Scholar Lightning Talks
Moderator: Allissa Dillman
Grand Ballroom
3:45 – 5:00Session 5. Poster Presentation & JudgingGrand Ballroom
Foyer
5:00 – 6:00Networking Reception
END OF DAY 1
Wed. March 26
Time (EST)Session Title & PresenterLocation
7:30 – 8:15Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30Day 2 Agenda Overview by Jake Chen
Grand Ballroom

Breakout: Working Groups

Time (EST)Track 5ATrack 5BTrack 5CTrack 5D
Location
Bethesda PotomacRockville/Chevy Chase Salon EGrand Ballroom
Topic / HostOntology
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 – 9:00Overview 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 UpdatesLandscape Analysis Results and Collaboratively working to address RecommendationsOutreach Tools and Resources
9:30-10:00Technologies and standards; LLMs and KGsNoneFuture Events

10:00 – 10:15 – Coffee Break


Breakout: Partnership & Science

Track 6ATrack 6BTrack 6C
LocationBethesda PotomacRockville/Chevy ChaseSalon E
10:15 – 11:00Biomarker (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 – 11:45Metabotyping (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 & PresenterLocation
11:45 – 1:00LunchOn-site
Interactive Panels:
Lessons & Future
1:00 – 1:30Bridging Communities: Integrating CFDE with External Data Networks
Moderator: Jeffrey Grethe
Grand Ballroom
1:30 – 2:00Sustaining the CFDE Ecosystem
Moderators: Peipei Ping and Wei Wang
Grand Ballroom
2:00 – 2:30Strategies to Grow the CFDE User Base
Moderators: Bernard de Bono and Noel Burtt
Grand Ballroom
2:30 – 3:00TownhallGrand Ballroom
3:00 – 3:10Conclusion
Moderator: NIH
Grand Ballroom
END OF DAY 2
Posters
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

Floorplan

Tuesday, March 25

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

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



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

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.

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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
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