FaceBase 2025 Community Forum in Marina del Rey

Registration is free and available to the public. The deadline to register for onsite attendance is Friday, May 16, 2025.

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Join us for the FaceBase 2025 Community Forum on June 3 and 4 at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in Marina del Rey, CA.

(Fun fact: ISI is actually the headquarters for the FaceBase technical team!)

This year’s theme is Enabling and Expanding the Reach of Craniofacial Research: Building Connections and Supporting Reuse.

Program Description

You can find latest version of the agenda here.

Day 1 – Tuesday, June 3 (PDT)

• Morning:
  • Registration and Breakfast
  • Introduction by Yang Chai, D.D.S., Ph.D. (USC)
  • Opening Remarks by Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, D.D.S., Ph.D., Acting Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR/NIH) and Debara L. Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD/NIH)
• Mid-Morning Sessions:
  • FaceBase 4 Roadmap Overview featuring talks by Carl Kesselman, Ph.D. and Rob Schuler, Ph.D. (ISI)
  • Keynote Address on “The Need for High Quality Data for Data Reuse and Machine Learning” by Helen M. Berman, Ph.D. (USC)
• Late Morning – Early Afternoon:
  • Scientific Talks on Studies Comparing Normal and Abnormal Craniofacial Development with Justin Cotney, Ph.D. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) and Samantha Brugmann, Ph.D. (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital)
  • Catered Lunch
• Afternoon:
  • Panel Discussion on Incorporating Relevant Clinical Elements (EMR/EDR, etc) into FaceBase to Effectively Facilitate Clinical Research, chaired by Parish Sedghizadeh, D.D.S, M.S. (Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry/USC)
  • Scientific Talks on Connecting Clinical Tools and Data to Advance Craniofacial Pain Research – Integrating Imaging, AI, and Multimodal Data to Drive Discovery with Thomas Peterson, Ph.D. (UCSF); Glenn Clark, D.D.S., M.S., Anette Vistoso Monreal, D.D.S., M.S and Krishna S. Nayak, Ph.D. (USC).
  • Poster Session and Reception
• Evening:
  • Day’s Adjournment
  • Group Dinner at Playa Provisions

Day 2 – Wednesday, June 4 (PDT)

• Morning:
  • Breakfast and networking
  • Recap of Day 1 by Yang Chai, D.D.S., Ph.D. (USC)
  • Keynote talk on a “Vision for Data Science: Advancing Craniofacial Research Through Integration, Accessibility, and Innovation” by Axel Visel, Ph.D (Lawrence Berkeley Lab).
• Mid-Morning Sessions:
  • Scientific Talks showcasing innovative reuse of FaceBase data in areas like pediatric respirator design and AI/ML applications with Christopher Nemeth, Ph.D. (Applied Research Associates, Inc), Benedikt Hallgrímsson (Univ of Calgary) and Peter Claes, Ph.D. (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Late Morning – Early Afternoon:
  • Scientific Talk demonstrating FaceBase in Related Health Domains with Jennifer Kalish, MD, PhD (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
  • Panel Discussion exploring connections between craniofacial research and broader health domains with: Yang Chai, Benjamin Yixing Xu (USC), Jennifer Kalish, Axel Visel.
  • Adjournment with an informal lunch and a subsequent internal meeting for FaceBase and NIH staff

Call for Posters

There will be in-person poster presentations this year. Use the registration form now to indicate you want to present a poster.

Submission abstracts are due by May 16.

Topics for posters:

• We encourage submissions of clinical/translational cases, ML/AI and training scenarios as well as basic science that indicate scientific progress or accomplishments that advance FaceBase aims.
• Demonstration of how FaceBase data is used or reused for new scientific insights.
• Posters should include data/research that has been or will be submitted to FaceBase.

You can find full poster information on this page.

Event Logistics

Dates:

• Starts: Tuesday, June 3rd at 9:00 am Pacific
• Ends: Wednesday, June 4th at 12:00 pm Pacific (with boxed lunch available afterwards for further networking)

Location: Marina del Rey, CA

Venue:

Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Room 1014, 10th floor
https://www.isi.edu

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