CAMDA 2023 Conference


CAMDA runs in collaboration with ISMB, which joins up with ECCB every other year. CAMDA is an established full conference track at ISMB, representing one of its Communities of Special Interests (COSIs). This gives you wide exposure and further opportunities for interaction with colleagues without separate registration fees. You just register with one of multiple options at ISMB, specifying CAMDA as your interest.

CAMDA focuses on one of the grand challenges of our time, the intelligent exploitation of Big Data in the life sciences. In the post-genomic era, an effective scientific interpretation of large datasets is key to new medical and biological insights from novel high throughput assays and the increasing size of biomedical studies. CAMDA puts a spotlight on the successful analysis and integration of the massive data sets now prevalent in the life sciences.

This year, recognizing the recent events, the scientific committee of CAMDA has set the following data analysis contest challenges:

  • The Synthetic Clinical Health Records Challenge provides a rich set of highly realistic Electronic Health Records (EHR) tracing the diagnosis trajectories of diabetic patients, created with dual-adversarial auto-encoders trained on data from 1.2 million real patients in the Population Health Database of the Andalusian Ministry of Health. Predict relevant diabetes endpoints like blindness or cardiopathy from past diagnosis trajectories!
  • The Anti-Microbial Resistance Prediction and Forensics Challenge features both resistance profiles of clinical isolates as well as environmental meta-genomics sequences. Predict resistant bacteria and identify resistance genes to track emerging resistance in urban and non-urban locations!

Leading scientists present their best methods and analyses in talks, complemented by poster sessions. Papers based on the submitted extended abstracts enter a fast track for publication in the open access, fully indexed conference proceedings at Frontiers in Genetics. Related method papers can enter the ISMB proceedings track of the Bioinformatics journal.

All delegates vote for the best-contributed analysis. The top three presenters are honoured each year, with the first prize being the prestigious CAMDA Trophy award.

We cordially invite you to attend and contribute to CAMDA, and look forward to seeing you this year - virtually or in person!   (Fellowships available)

CAMDA dinner

Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 8-10 pm

Delegates are invited to join the CAMDA keynote speakers for scientific exchange and a great evening out at Le Bouchon Sully. The 3-course dinner features seasonal selections of local Lyonnaise cuisine. Vegetarian options also available. Aperitif, wine, and coffee included. Outdoors or in a well ventilated private room.

We will gather after the poster session at the main conference entrance 7:15 pm to walk to the restaurant together. Then it is about a 30 minute stroll through a park, a fab opportunity for informal discussion and soaking up some nature. Alternatively, you can make your own way. Dinner starts 8 pm.

Address:
Le Bouchon Sully
20 Rue Sully
69006 Lyon
Tel. 04 89 41 07 97

Tickets cost €49Eur and are available to purchase here. You can add dinner tickets until 18 July but capacity is limited to 40 and tickets sell fast. Ticket owners will receive a link to select their menu options early July.

PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine

Nikolaus Rajewsky, PhD
Nikolaus Rajewsky, PhD
Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine

Terry Speed, PhD
Terry Speed, PhD
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Sandrine Dupoit, PhD
Sandrine Dudoit, PhD
University of California, Berkeley

John Quackenbush, PhD
John Quackenbush, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health

Eran Segal, PhD
Eran Segal, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science

John Storey, PhD
John Storey, PhD
Princeton University

Chris Sander, PhD
Chris Sander, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Temple F. Smith, PhD
Temple F. Smith, PhD
Boston University

Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health

Christopher E. Mason, PhD
Christopher E. Mason, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Lodewyk Wessels, PhD
Lodewyk Wessels, PhD
Netherlands Cancer Institute

Cesare Furlanello, PhD
Cesare Furlanello, PhD
Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Rita Colwell, PhD
Rita Colwell, PhD
University of Maryland

Nikos Cyrpides, PhD
Nikos Cyrpides, PhD
DOE Joint Genome Institute

Francesca Ciccarelli, PhD
Francesca Ciccarelli, PhD
Francis Crick Institute

IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Abstracts Opens23 January 2023
CAMDA Extended Abstracts Deadline18 May 2023
Late Posters Submissions Open18 May 2023
Poster Acceptance Notifications25 May 2023
CAMDA Acceptance Notification29 May 2023
CAMDA Conference26-27 July 2023
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