Concurrent Workshops

Stigma Interest Group (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

Showcasing NIH trainees (postbacs, postdocs, graduate students) who conduct research related to stigma associated with a variety of diseases and health conditions by gathering together for a series of talks and flash talks presented by the trainees, and present awards to winning talks and abstracts. 

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: Stigma Interest Group

NIH Bioinformatics Community Fair (FAES Classrooms 1 & 2- combined)

The NIH is home to a number of groups aimed at supporting bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology and various related topics. Many of these groups meet regularly to host talks or provide training opportunities, while others have active online communities where people can ask questions and get help.

The goals of the Bioinformatics Community Fair is to introduce members of the NIH community to these groups: their goals and scope, training opportunities and talks planned for the future, how one can connect with them, etc.

In addition to the group presentations, there will also be several panel discussions on recent topics of interest in the bioinformatics community including data organization, management and sharing, and cloud resources for bioinformatics, as well as a discussion about the current bioinformatics ecosystem at NIH overall, and what could be done to improve it.

Interested individuals of all backgrounds and skill-levels are welcome to attend.

Cohort Analytics Core (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

The All of Us Research Program is a historic, longitudinal effort to collect and study data from at least one million people living in the United States. The goal of All of Us is to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. The program aims to reflect the diversity of the United States and to include participants from communities that have been underrepresented in health research in the past. In the All of Us Curated Data Repository version 7, there are about 250,000 participants who have phenotypic data (mostly derived from electronic health records [EHR]) linked to genomic short-read sequencing data. In addition, a growing number of participants have survey responses and Fitbit data, as well as genomic long-read sequencing and structural variant data. We are hosting this workshop to encourage the research community to perform studies with these data.

1. Introduction to All of Us Research Program and data access
2. EHR and genomic data in All of Us
3. Working with CAC in using All of Us data
4. Breakout groups for Q&A and hands-on practice
   1. Researchers without All of Us access: exploring Data Browser.
   2. Researchers with All of Us access: phenotype querying and variant extraction.

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: How to Use All of Us Research Workbench

Single Cell Omics (FAES Classrooms 1 & 2- combined)

• Session 1: Single-cell transcriptomics
• Session 2: Single-cell multi-omics

Single-cell omics enables us to study the makeup of individual cells at the molecular level. Understanding the cellular composition and cellular changes provides great opportunities to revolutionize the way we diagnose, treat and prevent diseases. This workshop would include research presentations studying the single-cell transcriptomes and single-cell multi-omes.

Sign up here: https://nih.sharepoint.com/sites/NIH-SingleCellOmicsWorkshop

Molecular Graphics in Blender (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

Ever wondered how people make pictures of proteins that don’t look like they came from a textbook in the 1980s? Do you want to make your presentation graphics a little extra special? If so, this workshop is for you! Join members of the NIH bio-visualization community to expand your network and repertoire! Learn to use Blender with the Molecular Nodes addon for 3D modelling and animation of proteins, starting from the basics! Bring a laptop pre-installed with Blender 3.5 (you’ll need IT for this) and a 3 button mouse, and we’ll provide the rest! 

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: Molecular Graphics in Blender

Patent Interest Group (FAES Classrooms 1 & 2- combined)

Eureka! The NIH Intramural Scientific Discovery Behind Today’s Medical Products

Scientists in the NIH intramural research program have dedicated their careers to new scientific discoveries that lead to better health for everyone. This session will highlight a few of those NIH investigators whose basic and translational research discoveries have contributed significantly to the NIH public health success story. These researchers will share their scientific journeys, sometimes traveled over serendipitous and difficult roads, from initial discovery to seeing their ideas translated into commercial products.

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/g/wW46nwDXPJ

Health Disparities Interest Group (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

Are we who we think we are? The multiple dimensions of race and ethnicity

Race and ethnicity are social constructs – meaning they were created for social and political reasons and do not accurately reflect inherent differences in human biology. The existence of racial and ethnic categories is closely linked to United States history. They are also conflated with cultures that people identify with and share, but often group together people with diverse cultural heritages. Meanwhile, self-identified race and ethnicity can be incongruent with socially assigned race and ethnicity, and how individuals are being treated in society appears to depend on socially assigned race and ethnicity. To add further complexity, “genetic ancestry” is often used in the scientific literature in a manner that might appear to justify a biological conception of race. How do these different dimensions of race and ethnicity fit together? How do we measure each of these dimensions? This workshop will present a panel of speakers to discuss these issues, with reserved time for open dialogue with the audience on these topics.

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: Health Disparities Interest Group

NIH Bioinformatics Community Fair (FAES Classroom 5)

The NIH is home to a number of groups aimed at supporting bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology and various related topics. Many of these groups meet regularly to host talks or provide training opportunities, while others have active online communities where people can ask questions and get help.

The goals of the Bioinformatics Community Fair is to introduce members of the NIH community to these groups: their goals and scope, training opportunities and talks planned for the future, how one can connect with them, etc.

In addition to the group presentations, there will also be several panel discussions on recent topics of interest in the bioinformatics community including data organization, management and sharing, and cloud resources for bioinformatics, as well as a discussion about the current bioinformatics ecosystem at NIH overall, and what could be done to improve it.

Interested individuals of all backgrounds and skill-levels are welcome to attend.

Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)Initiative (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

Data Sharing in Generalist Repositories 

Generalist repositories offer NIH researchers a flexible, trusted resource to share data for which there is no appropriate discipline specific repository as well as to share many other research outputs valuable for reproducibility and open science. This mini-workshop, presented by participants of the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, Vivli, and Zenodo) will share generalist repository use cases and best practices for sharing and finding data in generalist repositories. It will describe how generalist repositories fit into the NIH data repository landscape for intramural researchers and can be part of meeting the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy requirements. It will present both the key common features of generalist repositories that meet the NIH desirable repository characteristics as well as the unique features of these repositories that make them suited to specific types of data. Through interactive training exercises, the mini-workshop will provide guidance on how to share data and other outputs in generalist repositories, using high quality metadata, persistent identifiers, and detailed descriptions to ensure that research outputs are discoverable and reusable.

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)

Reverse Phenotyping Core (FAES Classroom 5)

Design a Genotype-First Study: Variant Selection to Patient Participation

Join NHGRI’s Reverse Phenotyping Core to design your own genotype-first clinical research study using patient-derived data from recontactable research participants. In reverse phenotyping, participants are selected based on harboring a genetic variant of interest based on preexisting sequencing data rather than the presence or absence of a clinical trait of interest. Genotype-positive participants and controls are then recruited for targeted clinical exams or sample collection for molecular assays to test gene-disease hypotheses in a phenotypically unbiased manner.

In this workshop, we’ll access the NHGRI RPC Genomic Data Archive comprised of nearly 16,000 sequencing datasets and walk through an example reverse phenotyping study from variant selection to participant recruitment to clinical phenotyping. After the demo, we’ll work with investigators to prioritize variants in our RPC browser for your own study and discuss how you can access these participants and clinical phenotyping through the Reverse Phenotyping Core.

Sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3LVSQBS 

Religion, Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group (FAES Classroom 5)

The purpose of the NIH Religion, Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group (RSH-SIG) is to foster communication, promote collaboration, and facilitate the exchange of information, understanding, and resources within the NIH to the larger research community on the intersection of religion, spirituality (R/S) and health. The RSH-SIG will promote the understanding of research on the intersection of R/S and health to promote Cura Personalis or “care for the entire person,” including in the areas of prevention, treatment, and recovery from health conditions that may impact any sphere of functioning, including behavioral, cognitive, and physical diseases/health conditions while providing a more comprehensive understanding of the person from a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. The RSH-SIG envisions that its work will contribute to the NIH mission “to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability."

Sign up here: https://nih.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsc-6sqjguE7dDBLBLXlafE-9UsSS7jG4  

In-person seating capacity is limited to about 35 seats. Please consider attending virtually if you are able. Thank you.

Innovation Program, Office of AIDS Research (Bldg. 10, NIH Library) 

NIH Office of AIDS Research Innovation Program Symposium

The Office of AIDS Research oversee the NIH-wide research efforts in the field of HIV/AIDS. Every year, the NIH Office of AIDS Research Innovation program opens for highly innovative, cutting-edge, applications. Applications are open to all levels, from post-doctoral fellows to tenured Principal Investigators, both from the Intramural Research Program, as well as extramural grantees. This symposium features intramural investigators that were awarded in 2022, from diverse areas within HIV research that is performed here on campus, from vaccine development to basic virology to cancer.

Sign up here: NIH Research Festival: Innovation Program, Office of AIDS Research