CFAR AIDS Soiree is September 30th!
The CFAR AIDS Soiree is meeting Sept 30!!!
RSVP now to cas@emory.edu
Attention basic, clinical, and translational HIV/AIDS researchers...
Imagine a world in which you can test drive a research hypothesis BEFORE starting the long, involved process of getting IRB approval.... A world in which vast amounts of data from different sources can be mixed, sifted, sorted, and analyzed at lightning speeds, yielding understandable findings.... A world in which it would be possible to predict in advance how well AIDS patients might respond to a hypothetical change in therapy...
Cool huh? Welcome to the 21st century at Emory University!!
The Center for Comprehensive Informatics (CCI) is a brand new initiative at Emory. It exists to bring people who have research questions together with people who know how to bend the power of high octane computers to their will in hopes that together they will make beautiful music (defined here as: "More rapidly and rigorously answering that intriguing research question...").
YOU might be one of those people who would benefit from working with the CCI, without even knowing it.
So on Wednesday, September 30, the CFAR AIDS Soiree will feature a series of short talks by faculty members from the CCI who will collectively present...
Turbocharging Your AIDS Research:
Adding Biomedical Informatics as a Research Resource
starring:
Joel Saltz, MD, PhD
Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, PhD
Tahsin Kurc, PhD
Andrew Post, MD, PhD
Ashish Sharma, PhD
Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Whitehead Plaza and Auditorium
6:00pm - Wine, cheese, networking
6:45pm - Main Event
8:00pm - buffet dinner, more networking
Attendance requires preregistration to cas@emory.edu
What it is, what it can do for you.
COOL TALK #2: Virtual Laboratories for Decision Support
If you want to see into the future to ... say ... predict virological and epidemiological outcomes of decisions that basic, clinical, and translational researchers make, wouldn't it be REALLY helpful to have a user-friendly space for building and executing complex studies and workflows on large and high-quality data repositories? And wouldn't it be even MORE helpful if you were able to work collaboratively on that with people who know how to make large data repositories sit up straight and behave themselves? This talk will provide a look at a state-of-the-art example of "virtual decision support" for infectious diseases using rankings of drug resistance of given virus mutations based on rules established by well known HIV expert systems.
COOL TALK #3: Software Architectures for Translational Research
Integrating information from multiple data sources is an increasingly common process in basic and translational biomedical research. But what if those data sources come from different institutions which employ data and analysis tools developed and hosted by different groups? Not to fear! With CCI on the job this is not necessarily a deal breaker. This talk will present a high-level overview of software architectures to address the "multi-institution" problem, using examples from cancer and cardiovascular research.
COOL TALK #4: Analytic Information Warehousing
The Analytic Information Warehouse (AIW) is a development space for studying, implementing and validating new functionalities for the Emory Healthcare Clinical Data Warehouse. The AIW helps improve the quality of patient care through informatics with tools for prediction and analysis of disease, therapeutic response and outcomes using disparate data sources. This talk will demonstrate how it is possible to link data, query unstructured documents and image content, and match pure research data with EHC patient data.
COOL TALK #5: Microscopy Imaging
Projecting a desired image is a good thing ... among other things it may help you get past security in an airport or to first base with the good looking scientist at the next bench. Projecting an ACCURATE image on the other hand is crucial to help with baseline disease classification and illuminate biomarkers to assess treatment response. In short, reproducible and standardized methods of image analysis and quantification are crucial components of many research studies. But what if you didn't major in microscopy at school? Not a problem!! This talk will describe CCI's development of methods for labeling itty bitty (i.e. micro-anatomic) structures found in images, the systems software and techniques they use for management and analysis of macro (i.e. very large) image data, and the techniques and "middleware" components for putting the information at YOUR disposal.
The September CFAR AIDS Soiree ... Be there or be unverified,
-Kimberly
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Kimberly S. Hagen, EdD
Assistant Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) <http://www.cfar.emory.edu>
Associate Director, CFAR Developmental Core