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2025 Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Retreat

Biltwell Event Center, Indianapolis, IN

Welcome to the 2025 CCBB Retreat!

The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB) Retreat is a scientific retreat aimed at bolstering collaboration between the CCBB members and for their lab members to hear about the publications and research being done to advance translational science. 

The retreat will be held at the Biltwell Event Center in downtown Indianapolis on Friday, Oct. 31 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The scientific session will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided. The scientific sessions include a keynote lecture by Vicki Wysocki, PhD, from Georgia Institute of Technology, who is the awardee of the Keith Dunker Lectureship this year. Other sessions include faculty presentations, poster presentation and student presentations.

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Catherine McMillan or Jill Reiter.

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Registration for the 2025 CCBB Retreat is now open.

Retreat Agenda 

Annual Retreat, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Biltwell Event Center
950 S White River Pkwy Dr W
Indianapolis, IN 46221

Oct. 31, 2025

Session Time Presenter Title Unit
  9:15-9:20 a.m. Amber Mosley and Jun Wan Welcome  
Genetic Education and Biobanking 9:25-9:40 a.m. Robbee Wedow How and for Whom can Genetics Education Reduce Beliefs in Genetic Essentialism? Purdue University
  9:40-9:55 a.m. Darshan Shah AnalytiXIN Roadmap Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
  9:55-10:25 a.m. Linus, Charles and Marcus Demo of Indiana Biobank System Deparment of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Coffee Break 10:25-10:45 a.m.      
Faculty Presentations 10:45-11 a.m. Erin Dunn Childhood Adversity, DNA Methylation, and Risk for Depression  Purdue University
  11-11:15 a.m. Tesfaye Mersha Consideration of Race/Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry in Precision Medicine Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
  11:15-11:30 a.m. Lu Zhang Innovative AI Approaches for Advancing AD/ADRD Research Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
  11:30-11:45 a.m. Alex Miller Developmental Genetic Influences on Impulsive Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Escalation Department of Psychiatry
Lunch and Poster Presentation 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.   Lunch will be served from noon-1 p.m.
Faculty Presentation 1:30-1:45 p.m. Jonah Vilseck Screening Nucleic Acid Modifications and RNA-Protein Binding Affinities with λ-Dynamics Free Energy Calculations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

1:45-2 p.m. Laura Cracco TDP-43, a Shuttling Protein: Post-Translational Modifications Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Best Paper Award Presentation 2-2:15 p.m. Shuang Wang

TrimNN: Characterizing Cellular Community Motifs for Studying Multicellular Topological Organization in Complex Tissues

Nature Communications

Juexin Wang Lab
  2:15-2:30 p.m. Nick Green

Integrated Single-Cell Multiomic Profiling of Caudate Nucleus Suggests Key Mechanisms in Alcohol Use Disorder

Nature Communications

Yunlong Liu Lab
  2:30-2:45 p.m. Saijun Zhao

Precision Generalized Phase I-II Designs

Biometrics

Yong Zang Lab
  2:45-3 p.m. Shubham Innani

AI-driven WHO 2021 Classification of Gliomas Based Only on H&E-stained Slides

Neuro-Oncology

Spyros Bakas Lab
Coffee Break 3-3:15 p.m.      
Dunker Lectureship 3:15-4:15 p.m. Vicki Wysocki Native Mass Spectrometry: A structural biology tool Georgia Tech
Award Ceremony and Closing 4:15-4:30 p.m. Yunlong/Amber/Jun