High Performance & Scientific Computing
UT Bioinformatics Symposium (2024)

The UT Bioinformatics Symposium hosted by OIT HPSC is an annual event that brings together bioinformatics researchers from across the UT campuses.
| When? | Friday, October 18, 2024, 9 AM – 2 PM |
| Where? | Student Union 362 University of Tennessee, Knoxville (and live-streaming on Teams!) |
Agenda
| Time (EDT) | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Doors Open, Check-in |
| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Coffee and Chat |
| 9:00 AM | Introduction and Welcome, Dr. Margaret Staton |
| 9:15 AM | Designing Vaccines for Cancer, Dr. Jeremy C. Smith |
| 9:35 AM | Data-Driven Population Health Surveillance, Dr. Heidi Hanson |
| 9:55 AM | Deep Learning Models for Biological Data Integration, Dr. Joshua L. Phillips |
| 10:15 AM | Wild Pathosystems for Evolutionary Applications in Plant Pathology, Dr. Gautam Shirsekar |
| 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM | Advanced Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Latest Methods and Future Directions (Panel Discussion) Moderator: Scott Emrich, Ph.D. Panelists
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| 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Lightning Talks |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch and Networking |
| 1:00 – 1:45 PM | HPC for Bioinformatics on ISAAC-NG (Bioinformatics Computing Support) |

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