2026 FaceBase Community Forum in Arlington, VA
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- Meeting Theme
- Program at a Glance
- Call for Abstracts
- Registration
- Location & Logistics
May 4–5, 2026 · USC/ISI East Office · Arlington, VA (Also available via Zoom)
Join the FaceBase community for a one-and-a-half-day forum featuring invited talks, panels, and discussions on AI-ready data, data reuse, and cross-domain collaboration across dental, oral, craniofacial, inner ear (DOC-IE), and related health domains.
The Forum brings together researchers, clinicians, data scientists, contributors, and trainees to explore how shared, well-curated data can accelerate discovery and support whole person health.
Meeting Theme
Advancing Scientific Data Reuse, Integration, and AI-Readiness to Bolster Translational Research Across Dental, Oral, Craniofacial, Inner Ear, and Related Biomedical Domains to Enhance Overall Health
Program at a Glance
The Forum features invited talks, panels, and discussions focused on AI-ready data, data reuse, and cross-domain collaboration.
Day 1 — Monday, May 4
- Welcome and NIH opening remarks
- FaceBase highlights and future directions
- Keynote: Genome medicine and multiomics in disease discovery
- AI-readiness in FaceBase
- Panel: Data sharing, reuse, and incentives
- Data reuse examples
- Interactive poster & demo session + networking reception
Day 2 — Tuesday, May 5
- Welcome and NIH remarks
- Keynote: Cranial phenotyping and sub-phenotypes
- Featured FaceBase datasets
- Data federation and collaboration (including ClinGen)
- EMR integration progress update
Who Should Attend
This meeting is designed for researchers and professionals interested in using, sharing, or enabling reuse of biomedical data.
- DOC-IE researchers and clinicians across the translational spectrum
- Trainees and early-career investigators
- Researchers and clinicians in related health domains (ear, eye, craniofacial-adjacent systems)
- Data contributors, biocurators, and data science professionals
Call for Abstracts
Present your work! Submit an abstract to share research, tools, datasets, and data-reuse stories across dental, oral, craniofacial, and inner ear science (and related domains).
Submitted abstracts will be used to organize the poster session.
Registration
Please click this button and fill out the short form to register:
Registration deadline: Friday, April 24, 2026 On-site or late registration may be accommodated on a space-available basis.
Location & Logistics
University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) – East Office
3811 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA
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The meeting will be held in person at the USC/ISI East Office in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC.
We will also provide remote participation options.
Getting There
- Located two blocks west of the Virginia Square-GMU Orange/Silver Line Metro station.
- ~15 minutes drive from the DCA airport.
- Cab fare is approximately $25 from DCA and $60 from IAD.
Additional details will be posted closer to the event.
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