Schedule of HiTSeq 2024
July 13-14, 2024, Montreal, QC, Canada
Keynote speakers
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Evan E.
Eichler Professor University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States |
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Sushmita Roy Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States |
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Kin Fai Au Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States |
Saturday July 13, 2024
All times listed are in EDT, Room: 517d
| 10:40-10:45 | Welcome remarks |
| 10:45-11:40 |
Keynote: Unsupervised learning approaches for genomics to decipher structure and dynamics of 3D genome organization and gene regulatory networks Presenter: Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States Format: In Person |
| 11:40-12:00 |
An Adaptive K-Nearest Neighbor Graph Optimized for Single-cell and Spatial Clustering Presenter: Qi Liu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States Format: In Person |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Proceedings Presentation: Forseti: A mechanistic and predictive model of the splicing status of scRNA-seq reads Presenter: Yuan Gao, University of Maryland, College Park, United States Format: In Person |
| 12:20-12:40 |
Keynote: Computational Advances In Multiomics Analysis Using HiFi Sequencing Presenter: Liz Tseng, Pacific Biosciences Format: In person |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Proceedings Presentation: Sigmoni: classification of nanopore signal with a compressed pangenome index Presenter: Vikram Shivakumar, Johns Hopkins University, United States Format: In Person |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Proceedings Presentation: Label-guided seed-chain-extend alignment on annotated De Bruijn graphs Presenter: Harun Mustafa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Format: In Person |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Compressed Indexing for Pangenome Substring Queries Presenter: Stephen Hwang, XDBio Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States Format: In Person |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Sequence-to-graph alignment based copy number calling using a flow network formulation Presenter: Hugo Magalhães, Institute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics, Medical Faculty, and Center for Digital Medicine, HHU, Düsseldorf, Germany Format: In Person |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Targeted genotyping of complex polymorphic genes using short and long reads Presenter: Timofey Prodanov, Institute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Germany Format: In Person |
| 16:40-17:00 |
VISTA: An integrated framework for structural variant discovery Presenter: Varuni Sarwal, UCLA, United States Format: In Person |
| 17:00-18:00 |
Keynote: Long-read sequencing and pangenome perspective of structural variation Presenter: Evan E. Eichler, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States Format: In person |
Sunday, July 14, 2024
All times listed are in EDT, Room: 517d
| 10:40-11:40 |
Keynote: Why and how long reads are used to improve gene isoform quantification Presenter: Kin Fai Au, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States Format: In person |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Telomere-to-telomere assembly by preserving contained reads Presenter: Sudhanva Shyam Kamath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Format: Live Stream |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Rawsamble: Overlapping and Assembling Raw Nanopore Signals using a Hash-based Seeding Mechanism Presenter: Can Firtina, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Format: In Person |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Proceedings Presentation: Conway-Bromage-Lyndon (CBL): an exact, dynamic representation of k-mer sets Presenter: Igor Martayan, Univ Lille, France Format: In Person |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Proceedings Presentation: Learning Locality-Sensitive Bucketing Functions Presenter: Xin Yuan, Pennsylvania State University, United States Format: In Person |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Proceedings Presentation: Fast Multiple Sequence Alignment via Multi-Armed Bandits Presenter: Kayvon Mazooji, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States Format: In Person |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Contrasting and Combining Transcriptome Complexity Captured by Short and Long RNA Sequencing Reads Presenter: Seong Woo Han, University of Pennsylvania, United States Format: In Person |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Quantum Computing for Genomic Analysis Presenter: Sergii Strelchuk, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Format: In Person |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Proceedings Presentation: Adaptive Digital Tissue Deconvolution Presenter: Franziska Görtler, Department of Oncology and Medical Physics, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway Format: In Person |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Maximizing accuracy of cellular deconvolution. (ACeD) Presenter: Jonathan Bard, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States Format: In Person |
| 17:20-17:40 |
Evolution of genomic and epigenomic heterogeneity in prostate cancer from tissue and liquid biopsy Presenter: Marjorie Roskes, Weill Cornell Medicine, United States Format: In Person |
| 17:40-18:00 |
Accurate and robust bootstrap inference of single-cell phylogenies by integrating sequencing read counts Presenter: Rija Zaidi, University College London Cancer Institute, United Kingdom Format: In Person |