VDOS-2025: International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies Program
Program (Time zone: Eastern Daylight Time)
Conference Videos
The recordings of the VDOS 2025 talks will be made available through the Biomedical Ontology World YouTube Channel. The recordings from the previous VDOS conferences are now available.
Allocated time: 20 minutes for full papers and 10 minutes for short papers, both including Q&A.
Virtual: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91917548760 (Passcode: 690254)
| Start Time | End Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| KG and ML (Moderator: Cui) | |||
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Yongqun He (University of Michigan) | Opening Remarks |
| 9:05 AM | 9:25 AM | Kevin Pasquette (Vanderbilt University), Muhammad Amith (University of Texas Medical Branch) | Development and integration design of an ontology-based knowledge graph for immunization information exchange on a semantic blockchain |
| 9:25 AM | 9:45 AM | Yuping Zheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | VaxjoGNN: A Graph Neural Network for Ontology-Grounded Vaccine Adjuvant Recommendation |
| 9:45 AM | 10:05 AM | Matthew Asato (University of Michigan) | VaxChat: An Agentic RAG Pipeline Integrating Knowledge Graphs and PubMed in the Vaccine Domain |
| Keynote (Moderator: Oliver) | |||
| 10:05 AM | 10:45 AM | Rebecca Razc (US FDA) | TBD |
| 10:45 AM | 10:55 AM | Break | |
| LLM-based Ontology Mapping (Moderator: Oliver) | |||
| 10:55 AM | 11:15 AM | Weiguo Cao (Mayo Clinic) | Ontology-Guided Prompting Improves LLM Classification of Clinical Trial Phases and Myocarditis Signals in Moderna Vaccine Studies |
| 11:15 AM | 11:35 AM | B. Damayanthi Jesudas (University of Florida) | BERTopic-Driven Vaccine Ontology Development from Biomedical Texts: A Case Study on Plotkin’s Vaccines Corpus |
| 11:35 AM | 11:45 AM | Jianfu Li (Mayo Clinic) | Efficient Vaccine Ontology Mapping via TF-IDF Retrieval and Lightweight Fine-Tuned Reranking |
| Ontology-supported LLM application (Moderator: Junguk) | |||
| 11:45 AM | 11:55 AM | Weiguo Cao (Mayo Clinic) | Thrombosis Risk Assessment from COVID-19 Vaccination via LLM-Driven Tabular Data Extraction |
| 11:55 AM | 12:15 PM | Feng-Yu Yeh (University of Michigan) | VaxCT: A Web-based Vaccine Clinical Trial Database Integrating Clinical Trials and VIOLIN Vaccine Resources |
| 12:15 PM | 12:25 PM | Hasin Rehana (University of North Dakota) | Automated Extraction and Classification of Vaccine Adjuvant Mechanisms Using Large Language Models |
| 12:25 PM | 12:40 PM | Group | Discussion |