Dr. Norden-Krichmar gave a virtual presentation entitled “Teaching bioinformatics on the High Performance Compute Cluster (HPC)” at the UCI Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) Event on June 4, 2021.

The Department of Epidemiology had a very strong representation this year with graduate students presenting their research at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference in October.  ASHG is the world’s largest human genetics conference.

• Kakati, Tulika, Bhattacharyya, D.K., Kalita, J.K., and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Classification of Differentially Expressed Genes using a Convolutional Neural Network” poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference, October 2020. (Note:  Tulika Kakati also received an ASHG Developing Country Award for this abstract, of which only 25 awards were given)
• Listopad, Stanislav and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Comparison of Differential Expression, Information Gain, and Random Forest for Feature Selection with RNA sequencing data” poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference, October 2020.
• Liu, Xiaochen, Liu, Z.-X., Morgan, T.R., and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals transcriptional heterogeneity of viral and alcohol-associated hepatitis” poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference, October 2020.
• Lucia, Rachel M., Huang, W.-L., Alvarez, A., Masunaka, I., Ziogas, A., Goodman, D., Odegaard, A.O., Norden-Krichmar, T.M., and Park, H.L. “Epigenome-wide association study of mammographic density” poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference, October 2020.
• Thangavelu, Chloe and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Meta-analysis of ATAC-seq data to explore chromatin accessibility during iPSC reprogramming” poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) virtual conference, October 2020.

The Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series hosted the first annual “Bioinformatics and Genomics in the Department of Epidemiology:  A Mini-Symposium” on December 4, 2019.  Organized and introduced by Trina Norden-Krichmar, the symposium featured presentations by the following graduate students:  Xiaochen Liu, Stanislav Listopad, Tulika Kakati, and Rachel Lucia.

Pictured left-to-right:  Trina Norden-Krichmar, Rachel Lucia, Tulika Kakati, Xiaochen Liu, and Stanislav Listopad

Listopad, S.A. and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. (2019) “A-Lister: A tool for analysis of differentially expressed -omics entities across multiple pairwise comparisons”, BMC Bioinformatics, 20, 595, doi:10.1186/s12859-019-3121-x.

The A-Lister software is released as open source software on Stanislav’s Github site.

Liu, X., Magnan, C., Stolz, A., Tayek, J., Liu, Z.X., Jacobs, J., Morgan, T., Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Gene expression profiling of PBMCs and liver tissue biopsies to distinguish between viral and alcohol-induced hepatitis”, poster presentation at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) conference in Boston, MA, November 8-12, 2019.

Listopad, S. and Norden-Krichmar, T.M. “Machine learning models for classification of small sample size RNA sequencing data”, poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Houston, TX, October 15-19, 2019.

Dr. Norden-Krichmar presented the following poster at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, in September 2019:

Norden-Krichmar, T.M., Jacobs, J.M., Liu, Z.X., Stolz, A.A., Tayek, J.A., Morgan, T.R. “Integrated –omics approach to predict and monitor treatment response for patients with Alcoholic Hepatitis”, poster presentation at the Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis:  Pathogenesis and Mechanisms of Liver Injury Joint NIAAA-NIDDK Research Workshop” on September 16-17, 2019.