Learning Meaningful Representations of Life

Learning Meaningful Representations of Life

The workshop will be held on Friday, December 13 at NeurIPS 2019 in Vancouver. The workshop aims to bring together experts in machine learning and biology to discuss what is needed – experimentally and computationally – to make large-scale progress on identifying meaningful structure in high-dimensional biological systems. We have contributors to facilitate a set of parallel discussions that will be the centerpiece of the day. The discussions will be oriented around different levels of biological abstraction (genome, molecule, cell, and phenotype). We hope you’ll join us!

7:30-8:30	Poster Setup and Registration. Presenters of accepted posters are welcome to join us at the hall at 7:30AM for early snacks, coffee, and a chance to hang their posters. Presenters are asked to have their posters hung by 8:30AM.
8:30–8:45	Francis Collins (via video)
8:45–9:00	Krishna Yeshwant
9:00–9:30	Aviv Regev
9:30–10:00	Max Welling
10:00–10:30	Daphne Koller in conversation with Barbara Englehardt
10:30–10:45	Coffee and Tea
10:45–12:00	Molecules and Genomes (Jointly Identified Challenges) David Duvenaud and Alan Asparu-Guzik Michael Keiser and Jennifer Wei David Jones and John Jumper David Haussler and Alex D’Amour
12:00–12:30	Synthetic Systems (Panel) Pamela Silver, Debora Marks, Chang Liu, Possu Huang
12:30–1:15	Lunch and Poster I A light lunch will be provided. Posters will be viewable on ballroom walls as well as online after the workshop.
1:15–3:00	Phenotype (Breakout) Challenge Presenters: Casey Greene, Dylan Kotliar, Smita Kirshnaswamy Conversation Facilitators: Alex Wiltschko, Aurel Nagy, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Casey Greene, David Kelley, Dylan Kotliar, Eli van Allen, Gokcen Eraslan, James Zou, Matt Johnson, Meromit Singer, Nir Hacohen, Samantha Morris, Scott Linderman, Smita Krishnaswamy
3:00–3:15	Coffee Break
3:15–5:00	Cell (Session) Anne Carpenter, Hui Ting Grace Yeo, Jian Zhou, Maria Chikina, Joshua Weinstein, Alexander Tong, Benjamin Lengerich, Aly O. Abdelkareem, Gokcen Eraslan, Stephen Ra, Daniel Burkhardt, Emanuel Flores Bautista, Frederick Matsen, Alan Moses, Zhenghao Chen, Marzieh Haghighi, Alex Lu, Geoffrey Schau, Jeff Nivala, Luke O’Connor, Miriam Shiffman, Hannes Harbrecht, Shimbi Masengo Wa Umba Papa Levi
5:00–5:15	Chris Sander
5:15–5:30	Ila Fiete
5:30-5:45	Dana Pe’er
5:45-6:00	Posters: Final Look (Drinks Provided)

LRML at NeurIPS will begin at 8:45am on Friday, December 13th, at the Vancouver Convention Center. Talks and discussions by: