The second annual retreat
May 20, 2011 @ 10:30 am
to 05:00 pm
Center for Medical Genomics Second Annual Retreat 2011
Room C3621, Hershey Medical Center
Registration Please register online. _ Tentative schedule of events Times Event 9:30am - 10:00am Arrival and registration of participants 10:00am - 10:10am Welcome and Overview of the Center Francesca Chairomonte, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics 10:10am - 10:30am "Dynamics of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy in Three Families: A Fully Reproducible Resequencing Study"Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology 10:35am - 11:05am "Data Science & Epidemiology, or: Twitter vs. CDC"Marcel Salathe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology & Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow 11:10am - 11:30am "What makes chromosomes break? Experimental and computational analyses of common fragile sites"Kristin Eckert, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology 11:30am - 1:15pm Lunch break, Poster session and Galaxy demonstration 1:30pm - 2:30pm Keynote Speaker"Genomics data in the clinic: from whole genome CNV analysis to exome and genome sequencing" David H. Ledbetter, Ph.D., FACMG Executive Vice President and CSO Geisinger Health System 2:35pm - 2:55pm "Identifying Wnt/ beta-catenin responsive enhancer elements at the c-Myc gene locus"Greg Yochum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 3:00pm - 3:30pm "Genomics and Transcriptomics of Bacterial Pathogenesis"Eric Harvill, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology & Infectious Disease 3:35pm - 3:55pm "Genetic and epigenetic influences on inactive X expression"Laura Carrel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 4:00pm Closing remarks and Adjournment