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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