The 11th Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri'24):​

• Builds on the success of previous editions (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014) to foster research aimed to understand and address all privacy and security issues in biomedical research and development.
• ​​Brings together a highly interdisciplinary community involved in all aspects of omics privacy and security research
• Seeks submissions not only from the Computer Science and Bioinformatics communities, but also from researchers and practitioners studying the Ethical, Legal, and Societal issues related to biomedical research, development, and commercialisation.

The 11th edition of the GenoPri workshop will foster new ideas and spirited debates on all aspects of genome privacy and security. We are calling for: engaging and informative 10-minute talks on genome privacy and security, with each talk to be followed by a 5 minute question period. Talk abstracts should be submitted by September 2, 2024. If accepted, the authors should commit to presenting their work in person at the workshop.

Topics of Interest​

• Access control for federated genomic networks
• Applications of differential privacy to the protection of genomic data
• Attacks on genome privacy
• Efficient cryptographic techniques for enhancing security/privacy of genomic data
• Hardware supported biomedical computing protection
• Privacy-preserving biomedical computing and blockchain
• Ethical and legal issues in genomics data
• Public engagement in data issues and privacy
• Collective forms of governance for complex or sensitive data access, e.g. combined genotype and phenotype uses
• Experiences with fielding genomic privacy
• Federating identification and authorization across multiple data holders
• GDPR consent requirements: issues and challenges
• GDPR, public interest, fairness and transparency: what do these mean for privacy
• Recent NIH policy change
• Interdisciplinary projects addressing security/privacy for clinical/genomic data
• Privacy issues in transcriptomics and proteomics
• Privacy-preserving Implementation experiences
• Quantification of genome privacy
• (Re-)Identification attacks against anonymized/pseudonymized genomic data
• Representing data use constraints for access mediation
• Secure sharing of genomic data between different entities
• Security and privacy metrics for quantifying leakage of genomic data
• Standardizing researcher identity claims across a federated network
• User perceptions of genomic privacy issues

We invite submission from scholars, clinicians, developers, lawyers, ethics experts, public servants, and all-around researchers in computer science, life sciences, biology, bioinformatics, law, data protection, ethics, public policy, and any others who can give a compelling talk about genome privacy and security.

Submissions of proposals to report prior research are also welcome.

Submission Instructions

 We invite talk proposals (1000 words limit) that give an overview of what you intend to present, including any results or conclusions you intend to share. We look for engaging talks and focused discussions, and so proposals should contain exciting ideas that can be communicated clearly and concisely. Authors are welcome to link additional sources of their work (e.g., software, videos, websites, papers) to their proposal. We will strive to incorporate these additional materials into the review process, though a comprehensive review of the material beyond what is contained in the submission text is not guaranteed.A proposal must include a title and a list of authors responsible for the work to be presented, one of whom commits to giving the talk. It must be no more than two pages including references and submitted as a PDF document. 

Proceedings

GenoPri does not have official proceedings, but accepted submissions will be made available on the GenoPri website (authors may revise them after acceptance). Authors may have the option to include talk-related resources, such as slides or software, on the website. With the speaker’s consent, recordings of GenoPri talks may be made available online.

Review

The GenoPri program committee will review the submissions to make the final decisions. The chair will seek to accept submissions that have the potential to create an engaging workshop for speakers and attendees.  

Venue

The workshop will be held in University of California San Francisco, Millbery Union Conference Center, Room MUE136.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Seungwan Hong at shong@nygenome.org