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Events
The Biomedical Informatics team at Cincinnati Children’s offers several event series for the research community. All interested faculty, staff and students are welcome.
Our Thursday Research Seminar Series is offered virtually via Zoom. Topics will rotate between:
- Bioinformatics
- Clinical Informatics
- Machine Learning
- Genomics
- Systems Biology
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2026 Schedule (11am – noon)
January 29, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Precision Medicine for Pediatric Critical Asthma
- Speaker: Colin Rogerson, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Division of Pediatric, Critical Care. Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics. Indiana University
February 12, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Presentation: The Landscape of Allelespecific Expression in Human Kidneys
- Speaker: Dongwon Lee, PhD, Research Associate, Nephrology Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
February 26, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Speaker: Richard Bonneau, PhD, Vice President of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, Genentech Computational Sciences
March 12, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Speaker: Eunjung (Alice) Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital & HMS
March 26, 2026
- Location: S6.125
- Speaker: Ioan Andricioaei, PhD, Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine
April 2, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Speaker: Jonathan Pritchard, PhD, Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology Stanford University
April 9, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Speaker: Brooke Luo, MD, Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
April 23, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Speaker: To be announced
May 7, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Presentation: Teaching Machines to Doubt
- Speaker: Leo Anthony Celi, MD, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology, Co-Director, MIT Sana Staff Physician, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
May 21, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Speaker: Michael Perkuhn, MD, Moelnlycke Health Care
August 27, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Building the Infrastructure for Data-Enabled Diabetes Care
- Speaker: Juan Carlos Espinoza Salomon, MD, Chief Research Informatics Officer, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Director, Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine
September 10, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Scalable Probabilistic Learning in Bioinformatics
- Speaker: Yuqiu “Ian” Yang, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)
September 24, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies and Risk Prediction
- Speaker: Xihao Li, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Genetics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
October 8, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Behavioral Economics in the Age of Health AI
- Speaker: Daniella Meeker, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Chief Research Information Officer, Yale New Haven Health System
October 22, 2026
- Location: S1.203
- Presentation: Reflections on Integrating Health Equity into a Career Journey in Clinical Informatics
- Speaker: Suzanne B. Bakken, PhD, MS, BSN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Alumni Professor of the School of Nursing, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
November 12, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Presentation: AI Across the Diagnostic Journey: Earlier Detection and Rare Disease Interpretation
- Speaker: Jeong Hyun-Hwan, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas
December 10, 2026
- Location: Research Auditorium
- Presentation: To be announced
- Speaker: To be announced
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Presentations may be recorded for the University of Cincinnati's distance learning, graduate-level course BMIN 7003 – Biomedical Informatics Seminar
The Bioinformatics Users Group (BUG) is a community of bioinformatics researchers and data scientists looking to sharing knowledge, insights, and build community. We organized a series of user-led, informal talks and discussions by and for data researchers at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati. Please contact Krishna Roskin at krishna.roskin@cchmc.org for more details or to sign up to present at a future BUGs meeting.
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