The 2016 Bioinformatics and Genomics retreat was held on September 9th and 10th. The one and a half day retreat featured Dr. Richard Myers from HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology as the keynote speaker. A number of faculty and student talks and a workshop session was held on September 10th.
Itinerary
Friday, September 9, 2016
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What |
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4:00-4:35 PM 4:40 PM |
Registration Opening remarks |
Lobby Life Science Building |
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4:45-5:45 PM |
Session 1: New Faculty Moderator: Anurag Verma Dr. Jesse Lasky : "Genomic basis of local adapatation to climate" Dr. Lynn Lin : "New clustering method for single-cell flow and mass cytometry data" Dr. Dokyoon Kim : "Multi-omics data integration for translational bioinformatics" |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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5:45-5:55 PM |
Break |
First floor, Life Sciences Building |
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5:55-7:15 PM |
Session 2: Machine Learning Moderator: Matthew Jensen Dr. Shaun Mahony: " Machine learning in regulatory genomics" Mr. Lin An: "A computational framework to predict chromatin interactions using genomic and epigenomic data" Ms. Anna Okula: "A data driven approach to address clinical heterogeneity in COPD" Dr. Yasser El-Manzalawy: "Protein-RNA interface prediction: advances, challenges, and future directions" |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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7:20-9:30PM |
Dinner and poster session 1 |
Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building |
Saturday, September 10, 2016
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What |
Where |
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8:30-9:00 AM
9:00-10:15 AM |
Continental Breakfast
Session 3 Moderator: Theodora Maravegias Mr. Wilfried Guiblet: "Local context in DNA sequence influences: the time between incorporation of consecutive bases" Mr. Tao Yang: "HiCRep: Measuring the reproducibility of Hi-C experiment" Mr. Seth Polydore: "sRNA transcriptome analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana rdr226 mutants" Mr. Nabeel Ahmed: "A hundred fold variability in codon translation rates in yeast" Mr. Mariano Russo: "Altered molecular profile in thyroid cancers from patients affected by the three mile island nuclear accident" |
Lobby, Life Science Building
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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10:15-10:30 AM |
Coffee break |
First floor, Life Sciences Building |
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10:30-11:30 AM |
Session 4 Moderator: Shefali Setia Dr. George Perry: "Genomic-scale STR genotyping and analysis for non-model species and from non-invasive samples" Dr. Feng Yue: "Identification of large-scale structural variations and their implications in tumorigenesis Dr. Mike Lee: "Moving towards precision medicine: Implementing pharmacogenetics" |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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11:30-12:30 PM |
Keynote Speaker Dr. Richard Myers: "Using genomics and genetics to understand human health and disease" |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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12:30-2:00 PM |
Lunch and poster session 2 |
Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building |
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2:00-5:00 PM |
Session 5: Workshop Organizers: Samarth Rangavittal and Zachary Fuller Introduction to Machine Learning |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
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5:00-5:05 PM |
Concluding remarks |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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6:00 PM |
Students' evening social |
TBD |