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CFDE Webinar Series

Join us on the last Friday of each month from 1-2 PM Eastern Time to learn more about how the CFDE is harmonizing and discovering new knowledge by integrating datasets, tools and other resources from a collection of NIH Common Fund programs.

Upcoming Webinars

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Past Webinars

Friday, Mar 27, 2026
  • Unlock New Opportunities with the Knowledge Center: Scientific Updates and Can't Miss Events

    Knowledge Center

    Summary

    The Knowledge Center will provide scientific updates including the REVEAL workflow.
Friday, Feb 27, 2026
  • Somatic Masaicism across Human Tissues: Data, Analysis, and Data Portal

    Hye-Jun Elizabeth Chun PhD

    SMaHT

    Summary

    Elizabeth Chun will present on Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues
Friday, Jan 30, 2026
  • BiomarkerKB: A Unified Knowledgebase for Biomarker Exploration and Standardized Biomarker Data

    Raja Mazumder

    The George Washington University

    Jeet Vora

    The George Washington University

    Summary

    How do we make biomarker data more findable, reusable & standardized? Join our webinar featuring BiomarkerKB, a unified knowledgebase for biomarker discovery across diseases & data sources.
Friday, Nov 21, 2025
  • Funding Opportunity: NIH Common Fund Replication Prize

    Sahana N. Kukke

    The Common Fund

    Michelle Hamlet

    The Common Fund

    Alicia Cavanaugh

    The Common Fund

    Summary

    Curious about how your research could earn part of an $850,000 cash prize? If you're passionate about rigor, reproducibility, and accelerating scientific impact, this is a chance you donu2019t want to miss. This informational webinar walks through submission requirements, key timelines, incentives, and tips for a successful application. Apply to the NIH Common Fund Replication Prize: https://bit.ly/3ICAkc1
Friday, Sep 26, 2025
  • Modeling transport processes in multiscale physiology

    Bernard de Bono

    Indiana University

    Peter Hunter

    University of Auckland

    Summary

    Bernard de Bono and Peter Hunter will be presenting Modeling transport processes in multiscale physiology
Friday, Aug 29, 2025
  • Mapping the Extracellular RNA Landscape: A Resource for Minimally Invasive Biomarker Research

    Sreyya Darsshini Sudharsan Raamasamy

    exRNA

    Summary

    Sreyya Darsshini Sudharsan Raamasamy exRNA presented on Mapping the Extracellular RNA Landscape: A Resource for Minimally Invasive Biomarker Research.
Friday, Jun 27, 2025
  • Data Visualization in Immersive Technologies

    Andreas Bueckle PhD

    HuBMAP

    Summary

    NIH HuBMAP JumpStart Fellow Dr. Andreas Bueckle presented 'Multiscale Virtual Reality Exploration of the 3D Human Reference Atlas Provides Novel Insights into Health, Aging, and Disease.'
Friday, May 30, 2025
  • The CFDE Integration and Coordination Center

    Jake Y. Chen, Sean Davis, and Casey Greene, Peipeing Ping, and Wei Wang

    Integration and Coordination Center

    Summary

    The Integration and Coordination Center presented about Sustainability and Evaluation Within the Common Fund Data Ecosystem.
Friday, Apr 25, 2025
  • Hackathons with Impact: Data-Driven Projects with CFDE

    Dr. Allissa Dillman

    Training Center

    Summary

    Dr. Allissa Dillman from the Training Center presented on Hackathons with Impact: Data-Driven Projects with CFDE.
Friday, Mar 28, 2025
  • Obtaining Knowledge through the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE): open access CFDE program information, analysis results, and more

    Knowledge Center

    Julie Jurgens

    Summary

    Julie Jurgens from the Knowledge Center presented on scientific updates from the Knowledge Center, including the novel method, PIGEAN.
Friday, Feb 28, 2025
  • 4D Nucleome Turns 10: Mapping the Dynamic Architecture of the Genome

    Harvard Medical School

    Dr. Peter Park

    Summary

    The 4D Nucleome consortium aims to understand the underlying principes of nuclear organization across space and time. Dr. Peter Park went over the infrastructure that 4DN have developed, the data they generated, as well as their published work over the course of ten years.
Friday, Jan 31, 2025
  • Navigating the Common Fund Data Ecosystemu2019s CFDE Data & Resources to Empower Scientific Discoveries

    Summary

    The workshop thoroughly discussed the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), an open-access resource enabling the broad use of NIH Common Fund Data. We cover navigating and using CFDE data, analysis tools, and knowledge and how CFDE can accelerate common and rare human disease research and basic biological discoveries.
Friday, Nov 22, 2024
  • Introduction to Communication and Outreach to Maximize Product Adoption (COMPA)

    Bernard de Bono, PhD

    PI, COMPA

    Summary

    In this lecture, Dr. Bernard de Bono presented information on the CFDE Communication and Outreach to Maximize Product Adoption (COMPA) partnership. He explained COMPAu2019s strategic approaches for user profiling, outreach activities, and gap analysis aimed to promote CFDE-developed products.
  • Data-Driven Strategies for Developing and Marketing Scientific Information Resources

    Stephen Larson, PhD

    CEO, MetaCell

    Summary

    In this lecture, Dr Stephen Larson, the CEO of Metacell presented strategies for driving user engagement to scientific tools. Metacell works with the COMPA CFDE partnership. He explained the challenges of user adoption, and effective user engagement strategies, and shared their experiences on various methods of outreach activities. He also shared the survey about user behaviors and tendencies toward scientific products.
Friday, Oct 25, 2024
  • Comprehensive Multi-Species, Multi-Omic, Multi-Tissue Insights into Exercise Molecular Responses

    David Jimenez-Morales, PhD

    Bioinformatics Lead, MoTrPAC

    Summary

    In this lecture, Dr. David Jimenez-Morales presents a seminar titled: MoTrPAC - Comprehensive Multi-Species, Multi-Omic, Multi-Tissue Insights into Exercise Molecular Responses. Dr. Jimenez-Morales is a Bioinformatics Lead at Stanford University and member of the NIH Common Fund Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) program (https://motrpac.org/) Data Coordination Center (DCC). In the lecture, Dr. Jimenez-Morales introduces the MoTrPAC DCC and explains their published and future studies on the molecular changes that occur during acute and long term aerobic and weight exercise in humans and rats.
  • The MoTrPAC Data Hub

    Jimmy Zhen

    Software Developer, MoTrPAC

    Summary

    In this lecture, Jimmy Zhen, a software developer at the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) Data Coordination Center (DCC) explains and demonstrates the MoTrPAC Data Hub (https://motrpac-data.org/). He covers various features of the data hub including the data download, analysis tools, and interactive visualizations, as well as the backend architecture supporting these features.
Friday, Sep 27, 2024
  • Tools and methods for discovering disease-causing gene regulatory variants from WGS data, with application to Congenital Heart Disease

    Keyang Yu

    Genboree Research Assistant, exRNA

    Summary

    This lecture by Keyang Yu, a member of ERCC (https://exrna.org/) DCC, was about tools and methods for discovering disease-causing gene regulatory variants from WGS data, with application to congenital heart disease. To overcome the limitations of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), Keyang Yu introduced a framework for the discovery of pathogenic non-coding variants. The framework uses point-wise mutual information (PMI) models and aggregates regulatory information using the CFDE Link Data Hub (CFDE LDH; https://genboree.org/cfde-gene/ui/).
Friday, Aug 30, 2024
  • Overview of Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures Consortium - Part 1

    Martin Lindquist, MSc, PhD

    PI, A2CPS DRIC

    Summary

    Dr. Martin Linquist, the PI of the Data Integration and Resource Center for Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS), presented an overview of the Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures consortium.
  • Overview of Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures Consortium - Part 2

    Ari Kahn, PhD

    PI, A2CPS DCC and a member of A2CPS DIRC, TACC

    Summary

    Ari Kahn, a PI for the A2CPS DCC, and a member of DIRC, TACC, covered how A2CPS manages and processes the data and the release plan.
  • An A2CPS Use Case with Cloud Infrastructure

    Seth Berke

    Post-Bacc Researcher, Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures Consortium

    Summary

    Seth Berke, a Post-Bacc researcher explains a use case leveraging cloud infrastructure including Docker containers and CAVATICA to analyze data across various DCCs.
Friday, Jul 26, 2024
  • A Tour of the Human Reference Atlas v2.1

    Katy Bu00f6rner and Bruce Herr

    Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS)

    Summary

    A Tour of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA) v2.1 was delivered by Katy Bu00f6rner, Center Director for the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS), and Bruce Herr, Technical Director for CNS. They explain the history and goals of HuBMAP and the concept of the Vascular Common Coordinate Framework (VCCF).
Friday, Jun 28, 2024
  • Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) History and Background

    Jeremy Yang, Ph.D

    Research Associate Professor, UNM SoM, DoIM, TI Division

    Summary

    Jeremy Yang, PhD, provides a brief overview of the workshop and the history and background of the IDG DCC. He explains the network of institutions and collaborators involved and introduces the IDG portal and Pharos data portal. He then covers how they categorize targets into four target development levels (TDLs).

    Relevant resources that will be discussed:
    IDG portal: https://druggablegenome.net/
    Pharos: https://pharos.nih.gov/
  • Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Importance and Impact

    Anna Waller, Ph.D

    Scientist & Project Manager, UNM SoM, Dept of Pathology

    Summary

    Anna Waller, PhD introduced the importance and impact of the IDG program. She explains the collaborative efforts within the IDG consortium. She then covered the research output, global collaborations, and outreach initiatives that have advanced the understanding of understudied proteins and their potential for clinical therapeutics.
  • DrugCentral, Exemplar and Featured IDG Knowledge Base

    Jayme Holmes

    Sr Engineer & Lead Developer, UNM SoM, DoIM, TI Division

    Summary

    Jayme Holmes, a lead programmer for DrugCentral, introduced the features and growth of DrugCentral including the demonstration of an AI-powered Avatar, designed to assist DrugCentral users.

    Relevant resources that will be discussed:
    DrugCentral: https://drugcentral.org/
  • Pharos, the IDG Data Portal

    Timothy Sheils

    Sr Engineer & Project Manager, NIH NCATS

    Summary

    Timothy Sheils, a senior engineer at NIH NCATS, introduced the Pharos resource, covering how Pharos aggregated 78 data resources, the Pharos user-interface, filters, and ways to download and interact with the data using APIs.

    Relevant resources that will be discussed:
    Pharos: https://pharos.nih.gov/
Friday, May 31, 2024
  • Improved Methods to Query the LINCS L1000 Data

    Avi Ma'ayan, PhD

    LINCS Data Coordination Center and the CFDE Data Resource Center

    Summary

    The Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) was an NIH Common Fund program that was established to catalog how human cells globally respond to chemical, genetic, and disease perturbations. Resources generated by LINCS include experimental and computational methods, visualization tools, molecular and imaging data, and gene expression signatures. The presentation will cover LINCS datasets, tools, and a newly developed method to query the LINCS L1000 data for better prioritization of drugs, small molecules and single gene perturbations.

    Relevant resources that will be discussed:
    Rummagene: https://rummagene.com/
    SigCom LINCS: https://maayanlab.cloud/sigcom-lincs/
    Playbook Workflow Builder: https://playbook-workflow-builder.cloud/
  • Automatic Mining of Human and Mouse Gene Sets from GEO

    Giacomo Marino

    LINCS Data Coordination Center and the CFDE Data Resource Center

    Summary

    RummaGEO is a web server application that enables gene expression signature search against thousands of human and mouse RNA-seq studies deposited into GEO. To enable such a search engine, an offline automatic process was established to identify the experimental conditions from uniformly aligned GEO studies available from ARCHS4. Once conditions are identified, differential expression signatures are computed to extract gene sets from these signatures. In total, RummaGEO currently contains 135,264 human and 158,062 mouse gene sets from 23,395 GEO studies. Overall, RummaGEO provides an unprecedented resource for the biomedical research community enabling hypothesis generation for many future studies.

    Relevant resources that will be discussed:
    RummaGEO: https://rummageo.com/
    ARCHS4: https://maayanlab.cloud/archs4/
Friday, Apr 26, 2024
  • Overview of the Common Fund Data Ecosystem

    George Papanicolaou, PhD

    NIH, CFDE Program Leader

    Christy Kano, PhD

    NIH, CFDE Program Officer

  • Metabolomics Workbench/National Metabolomics Data Repository

    Shankar Subramaniam, PhD and Mano Maurya, PhD

    Metabolomics Workbench DCC and CFDE Data Resource Center

  • CFDE and the Biomedical Research Community

    Nou00ebl Burtt and Kyle Gaulton, PhD

    CFDE Knowledge Center

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