The 2012 Annual Retreat was a one-and-a-half-day event featuring visionary talk and panel discussion, keynote speaker, poster presentations, and faculty and student presentations on bioinformatics and genomics research.
Program
Friday, September 7, 2012
| When | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2:30-4:30pm |
Hands-on RNA-seq workshop on Friday afternoon. Tejaswini Mishra, Yihan Li |
115 Keller Building |
| 430-5:00pm | Registration for the retreat | First floor, Life Sciences Building |
| 5:00-5:05pm | Official opening remarks | Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 5:05-6:05pm |
Opening talks by panel members TItle: "How do we understand genomic complexity and its evolution?" The continuation of theory by other means (Dr. Kenneth Weiss) Heterogeneity and complexity in modern biomedical research (Dr. Debashis Ghosh) Do the experiment! (Dr. Laura Carrel) |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 6:05-6:15pm | Break/collect questions | First floor, Life Sciences Building |
| 6:15-7:00pm |
Panel discussion Dr. Kenneth Weiss, Dr. Debashis Ghosh, Dr. Laura Carrel, Dr. Sarah Tishkoff |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 7:00pm- | Dinner and poster session 1 | Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building |
Saturday, September 8, 2012
| When | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:15am |
Session 1 — Computational Genomics Genome-wide interaction analysis using the Biofilter (Dr. Marylyn Ritchie) Measure reproducibility of high-throughput biological experiments (Dr. Qunhua Li) Massively parallel sequencing of FIV reveals compartmental structure differences among tissues in Dual and Single infections (Yang Liu) Context-dependent transcription factor activity revealed by integrated models of DNA-binding (Dr. Shaun Mahony) |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 10:15-10:45am | Coffee break | First floor, Life Sciences Building |
| 10:45-11:55am |
Session 2 — Evolutionary Genomics Tools for plant virus ecology and evolution (Dr. Marilyn Roossinck) The evolution of virulence-associated diversity among classical Bordetella (Jihye Park) Phylogenomic analysis of cytochrome P450 proteins in Fungi (Venkatesh Moktali) Conservation and extinction genomics of Malagasy Lemurs (Dr. George Perry) |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 12:00-1:00pm |
Keynote speaker Dr. Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania African evolutionary genomics |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm | Lunch and poster session 2 | Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building |
| 2:30-4:00pm |
Session 3 — Functional Genomics Untangling the genetic basis of complex neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr. Santhosh Girirajan) Epigenetic regulation of lineage specificity during erythroid and megakaryocytic differentiation (Chris Morrissey) ShortStack: Comprehensive annotation and quantification of small RNA genes (Dr. Michael Axtell) Detecting differential regulation of gene expression in five cell lines (Kuan-Bei Chen) Dynamics of new virus infections in old hosts: embracing variation in host-virus interactions (Dr. Mary Poss) |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Coffee break | First floor, Life Sciences Building |
| 4:30-6:00pm |
Session 4 — Genetics Systems level analysis of honey bee health (Dr. Christina Grozinger) Integration of DNA transposons dependent on genome landscapes (Rebeca Campos-Sánchez) Harnessing the genome of Theobroma cacao for accelerated plant breeding (Dr. Mark Guiltinan) Evolution and expression pattern of overlapping genes in the Drosophila genome (Luyi Wo) Regulation of stress erythropoiesis – transition from self renewal to differentiation (Dr. Robert Paulson) |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 6:00-6:05pm | Concluding remarks | Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
| 6:05pm- | Students' evening social | Chris's House |
* Meals are provided through the generosity of the Genetics program.