CGSI 2025 CGSI Organizing Committee Irene Chen | UC Berkeley & UCSF Jason Ernst | University of California, Los Angeles Eleazar Eskin | University of California, Los Angeles Jo Hardin | Pomona College Shalmali Joshi | Columbia University Vanessa Jonsson – UC Santa Cruz Jaehee Kim | Cornell University Christoph Lippert | Hasso Plattner Institute Loes Olde Loohuis | University of California, Los Angeles Harold Pimentel | University of California, Los Angeles Rajesh Ranganath | New York University Sriram Sankararaman | University of California, Los Angeles Ritambhara Singh | Brown University Daniel Tward | University of California, Los Angeles Julia Vogt | ETH Zurich Faculty 2025 Ahmed Alaa | Evaluation of Generative AI Models in HealthcareCan Alkan | Acceleration of bioinformatics workloadsMohammed Alser | Georgia State UniversityValerie Arboleda | UCLABrunilda Balliu | UCLAVikas Bansal | Low mappability genes in the human genome challenges and opportunitiesElias Bareinboim | Columbia 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mcRigor: a statistical method to enhance the rigor of metacell partitioning in single-cell data analysisQunhua Li | Measure reproducibility of high throughput experiments and LLM generated analysesSheng Li | University of Southern CaliforniaChristoph Lippert | Hasso Plattner InstituteCong Ma | Inference of copy number aberrations using bulk and single cell sequencing dataYing Ma | Statistical and Computational Methods for Cell Type Deconvolution in Spatial TranscriptomicsNick Mancuso | Efficient count-based models improve power and robustness for large-scale single-cell eQTLSiavash Mirarab | Incomplete lineage sorting phylogenetics meets population geneticsErin Molloy | Dynamic programming for scalable cell lineage tree reconstruction with interpretable optimality guaranteesJazlyn Mooney | Population genetics in Wild and Captive Populations of Conservation Concern: Challenges and OpportunitiesJohn Novembre | University of ChicagoLayla Oesper | Computational methods for improved inference of tumor evolutionLoes Olde Loohuis | UCLABogdan Pasaniuc | UPennPavel Pevzner | Algorithmic challenges in complete genomics and metagenomicsTeresa Przytycka | National Institute of HealthRajesh Ranganath | NYUBen Raphael | Princeton UniversitySaharon Rosset | Tel Aviv UniversitySushmita Roy | Unsupervised representation learning with applications to 3D genome organization and cell-type-specific gene regulatory programsJulia Salzman | Stanford UniversityKris Sankaran | Modular Software for Mediation Analysis of Microbiome DataPalash Sashitta | Evolutionary models and algorithms for tumor phylogeny inferenceMatteo Sesia | Model-X statistical inference for GWAS dataSagiv Shifman | Genotype–phenotype heterogeneity in autismRitambhara Singh | Integrative Deep Learning for Heterogeneous Biomedical DatasetsPavel Skums | University of ConnecticutSagi Snir | U Haifa, IsraelPaul Spellman | UCLAMatthew Stephens | Nonnegative matrix factorization of count data with the shifted log transformMatthew Stephens | Genetic fine mapping via the Sum of Single Effects SuSiE modelDaniel Tward | UCLAPeter Visscher | University of Oxford and University of QueenslandJulia Vogt | ETH ZurichWei Wang | UCLAWenyi Wang | A Guide to Transcriptomic Deconvolution in CancerTandy Warnow | Advances in Large scale Multiple Sequence AlignmentXinzhu “April” Wei | Cornell UniversityJennifer Wilson | Predicting new drug phenotype by simulating off target effectsJason Xu | Eliciting simple and transparent algorithms for statistical learning via Majorization-Minimization (MM)Chongzhi Zang | Predicting functional transcription factors from various genomics dataShaojie Zhang | University of Central FloridaJasmine Zhou | UCLAOr Zuk | Generative Models and Their Applications in Computational Biology
