Thank you to all who participated in the Delaware Bioinformatics Data Science Symposium hosted by CBCB on October 23, 2025, and a big congratulations to all of the student award winners! Their dedication, high-quality research, and successful collaboration set a remarkable standard for all participants.
Poster awards – Greta Baker (Best Poster, Doctoral); Niko Rafailidis & Julie Nguyen (Best Poster Runners-Up, Doctoral); and Jenna Ferrence-Salo (Best Poster, MS & Undergraduate)
Team competition – Reproducibility Award – “Toward a systemic understanding of diabetic kidney disease with WGCNA” by Shamdeed Kabir, Lisa Chang, Farzana Yasmin; Innovation Award – “Identifying Molecular Subtypes of Chronic Kidney Disease Using KPMP Clinical and Biomarker Data” by the Killer Kidneys (Julie Nguyen, Neha Sindhu, Saeideh Valipour); Communication Award – “Non-Invasive Machine Learning Biomarker Discovery Pipeline for Renal Fibrosis” by Meghana Kusuru, Vinit Raju D, Sravya Buddha, Zainab Butul, Aaron Onserio.
Four students received poster awards at the DE-BDS Symposium from leadership (from left to right): Dr. Vincenzo Ellis (Symposium Co-chair, ENWE), Dr. Yixiang Deng (Symposium Co-chair, CIS), Amelia Harrison (Academic Advisor, CBCB), Jenna Ferrence-Salo (Undergraduate, UMich), Julie Nguyen (PhD Student, BDS), Niko Rafailidis (PhD Student, BDS), Greta Baker(PhD Student, BDS), Dr. Shawn Polson (Co-Director, CBCB), Dr. Karen Hoober (Co-Director, CBCB).