Inaugural Symposium of the South Dakota Biomedical Computation Consortium
Event: Inaugural Symposium of the South Dakota Biomedical Computation Consortium (in conjunction with the 7th USD Annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium)
Event Time: June 27th, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Venue: USD Sioux Falls campus (4801 N Career Ave, Sioux Falls, SD)
Event Webpage: https://sd-bcc.org/sdbcc-symposium/
Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487885 (Free of Charge!)
Agenda:
08:30 am – 09:00 am Morning Networking Session (coffee/refreshments)
09:00 am – 09:30 am Welcome session with Senator Round’s Office, USD and SDBCC leadership, and SDBCC program overview
09:30 am – 10:30 am Keynote talk: Douglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Chair of the Dept. of Biological Engineering at MIT
Talk Title: Computational Systems Modeling of Host Immune Response to Pathogen Infection and Vaccines
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Invited talks (30 min each)
• Kaifu Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital
Talk Title: AI methods to uncover cell identity genes
• Yinglong Miao, Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Talk Title: Accelerated and AI-Boosted Molecular Simulations and Drug Discovery
• George Awad, Ph.D., Computer Scientist/Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Talk Title: TBA
12:15 – 02:00 pm Roundtable Lunch Discussion with Speakers
02:00 – 04:00 pm Biomed Computation and AI Panel Discussion (biotech, healthcare, and academia)