Scientific Meetings
Upcoming Events
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) October Event:
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
This webinar will provide an Introduction to the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC). Attendees will learn more about the MoTrPAC Data Hub including pipelines and database structure. They will also receive MoTrPAC updates, including information about upcoming data releases.
Learn more and register for the event here.
Past Events
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) September Event:
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
This webinar reviewed the Tools and methods for discovering disease-causing gene regulatory variants from WGS data, with application to congenital heart disease. The webinar featured the following presenter:
- Keyang Yu - Genboree Research Assistant, exRNA
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) August Event:
Friday, August 30, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) program, which aims to assess and develop potential biomarkers into biosignatures and discover new ones related to the transition from acute to chronic pain following surgery. In this talk presenters discussed the goals of A2CPS, including a description of the datatypes collected and how to access data. They also discussed how a new researcher may go about accessing Common Fund resources, such as the data that will be released by A2CPS, to investigate a novel scientific inquiry utilizing cloud platforms and other tools made available to the CFDE. The webinar featured the following presenters:
- Dr. Martin Lundquist - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- Dr. Ari Kahn - The University of Texas at Austin
- Seth Berke - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- Dr. Martin Lundquist - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) July Event:
Friday, July 26, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
This webinar featured a Tour of the Human Reference Atlas v2.1. The webinar featured the following presenters:
- Katy Borner - Center Director for the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS)
- Bruce Herr - Technical Director for the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS)
- Katy Borner - Center Director for the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS)
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) June Event:
Friday, June 28, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
This webinar featured a presentation on the Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Overview and Highlights. The Knowledge Center provided a brief update at the end of the presentation. The webinar featured the following presenters:
- Jeremy Yang, Ph.D. - Research Associate Professor, UNM SoM, DoIM, TI Division
- Anna Waller, Ph.D. - Scientist & Project Manager, UNM SoM, Dept of Pathology
- Jayme Holmes - Sr Engineer & Lead Developer, UNM SoM, DoIM, TI Division
- Timothy Sheils - Sr Engineer & Project Manager, NIH NCATS
- Jeremy Yang, Ph.D. - Research Associate Professor, UNM SoM, DoIM, TI Division
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) May Event:
Friday, May 31, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
This webinar featured two available data resources:
- Improved Methods to Query the LINCS L1000 Data – presented by Avi Ma'ayan, PhD, LINCS Data Coordination Center and the CFDE Data Resource Center
- Automatic Mining of Human and Mouse Gene Sets from GEO – presented by Giacomo Marino, LINCS Data Coordination Center and the CFDE Data Resource Center
- Improved Methods to Query the LINCS L1000 Data – presented by Avi Ma'ayan, PhD, LINCS Data Coordination Center and the CFDE Data Resource Center
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Public Webinar Launch Event:
Friday, April 26, 2024 at 1-2PM ET
The Common Fund Data Ecosystem’s launch of its Public Webinar Series was held on Friday, April 26th. This was the first event in a webinar series that will bring together various programs of the CFDE to the broader biomedical and behavioral community. The first webinar featured:
- An Overview of the CFDE Program – presented by NIH Program Officers
- Metabolomics Workbench/National Metabolomics Data Repository: the bridge to the missing "ome" in systems biology and medicine – presented by Shankar Subramaniam and Mano Maurya
- An Introduction to the CFDE Knowledge Center Portal – presented by Noël Burtt, Broad Institute
- An Overview of the CFDE Program – presented by NIH Program Officers