Eilbeck Lab

Lots of updates for the Group

Students:

Andrew Miller, DBMI PhD candidate working jointly in Professors Eilbeck and Facelli labs and funded by a National Institute of Environmental Health supplement to the department National Library of Medicine T15 Training grant (
3 T15 LM007124 21S1) has been selected to work with Professor Russ Altman (Stanford University) year-in-review in translational informatics (https://rbaltman.wordpress.com/). The year-in-review is a presentation that Dr. Altman gives at the AMIA Translational Informatics Summit (in March). The presentation highlights important articles in Translational Bioinformatics that have been published in the previous year. The project is broken down into two phases: search and gather (find articles that meet Dr. Altman’s description of Translational Bioinformatics), and rank (rank the selected articles based on novelty, presentability and importance). The search and gather phase runs till Feb 1. The rank phase runs till Mar 1. After Dr. Altman reads through the articles and choses a subset to present. Let me know if you would like more information on it.

Michael Sinclair, an NLM training grant post doc successfully defended his Non Thesis Masters capstone project in December. The work was titled: REFACTORING THE SEQUENCE ONTOLOGY AND INTEGRATION WITH THE MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ONTOLOGY AND BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGY.

Nicole Ruiz-Schulz successfully defended her qualifying exam to proceed to candidacy for her PhD work this month. Nicole has been part of my lab for 5 years and is a recipient of the NLM training grant (3 T15 LM007124 21S1).

Service and teaching:

DBMI: I have been appointed the chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics Curriculum Committee.

This semester I am participating in the FHIR Practicum course as an advisor to students building a fhir based EHR app.

Grants and papers:

Informatics MS student Jacob Crump has been selected as one of the three finalists for the prestigious Student Paper Competition at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Summit (https://www.amia.org/2018-Informatics-Summit). Jacob’s paper describes a clinical decision support (CDS) prototype using OpenInfobutton (www.OpenInfobutton.org) to assist clinicians with decisions regarding the ordering of genetic tests and interpretation of genetic test results. The project was funded by ClinGen, a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) grant awarded to Karen Eilbeck (Principal Investigator for Utah site) and Guilherme Del Fiol (co-investigator).