Friday September 22-23, 2017
The 2017 Bioinformatics and Genomics retreat was held on September 22nd and 23rd. The one and a half day retreat featured Dr. Zhiping Weng from the University of Massachusetts Medical School as the keynote speaker. There were also a number of faculty and student talks as well as a workshop session on the September 23rd.
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Workshop
There will be a free hands-on workshop session entitled “Bioinformatics 101: Simple and Efficient Genomic Data Analysis” on Saturday afternoon.
Agenda
Friday, Sept.22nd
| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location |
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3:15-3:45PM 3:45 pm |
Ms. Divyanshi Srivastava
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Regisration, Coffee Opening Remarks |
112 Forest Resource Building |
| Session 1 | |||
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3:50 pm |
Moderator: Mr. Lin An Dr. Mark Shriver |
Evolutionary genetics of human facial feature variation |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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4:10 pm |
Dr. Michael DeGiorgio |
Fast and robust detection of ancestral selective sweeps |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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4:30 pm |
Dr. Feng Yue |
HiCPlus: A deep-learning framework for resolution enhancement of chromatin interaction data |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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4:50 pm |
Dr. Kateryna Makova |
Non-B DNA affects polymerase progression and error rates in sequencers and living cells
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112 Forest Resource Building |
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5:10 pm |
Break |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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5:20 pm |
Student Lightning Talks-I Moderator: Ms.Mehreen Mughal |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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5:40 pm |
Dr. Kenneth Weiss (Moderator: Mr. Bruce Chen) |
How do we know what we (think we) know in genetics? |
112 Forest Resource Building |
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6:40 pm |
Dinner and Poster |
Third Floor Bridge, Life Sciences Building |
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Saturday, Sept.23rd
| Time | Speaker | Topic | Location |
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| Session 2 | |||
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9:00 am |
Moderator: Ms. Divyanshi Srivastava Dr. Molly Hall |
Emerging approaches for identifying complex associations predictive of common disease |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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9:20 am |
Dr. Howard Salis |
Automated design of cellular sensors, circuits and pathways |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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9:40 am |
Dr. Matthew Reimherr |
Functional regression models and applications |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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10:00 am |
Dr. Dajiang Liu |
Understanding the genetic regulation and disease association for the inactive X chromosome from RNA seq data |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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10:20 am |
Break |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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| Session 3 | |||
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10:40 am |
Moderator: Mr. Bruce Chen Dr. Qunhua Li |
Measuring reproducibility of Hi-C data |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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11:00 am |
Dr. Yu Zhang |
Using functional annotations to map causal variants, tissues and target genes |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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11:20 am |
Dr. Forrest Briscoe |
Genomic privacy and security: a perspective from organization science |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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11:40 am |
Student Lightning Talks-II Moderator: Ms. Mehreen Mughal |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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12:00 pm |
Short Break |
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12:10 pm |
Keynote Speaker Dr. Zhiping Weng, Professor, University of Massachussets Medical School, Worcester, MA Moderator: Mr. Lin An |
ENCODE Encyclopedia: Featuring a Registry of Candidate Regulatory Elements and the Visualization Tool SCREEN for Searching Them |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
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1:15 pm |
Lunch and Poster |
Third Floor Bridge, Life Sciences Building |
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2:30 pm |
Workshop |
Bioinformatics 101: Simple and Efficient Genomic Data Analysis |
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building |
Lightning Talks
There were two sessions of lightning talks by graduate students. Each talk was of 90 second duration. Students were allowed one PowerPoint slide.
| Friday | |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Talk Title |
| Naomi Yamada | Discovery and characterization of binding sub-types in ChIP-exo |
| Divyanshi Srivastava | Prior Chromatin State Determines Transcription Factor Binding |
| Rahulsimham Vegesna | Copy number and expression variation in ampliconic genes on the Y chromosome |
| Samarth Rangavittal | DiscoverY: a fast & lightweight method to isolate Y-sequences |
| Theodora Kaiser | Transcriptionally active CrERV modulate mule deer gene expression |
| Sarthok R Rahman | How did bumblebees get their colors? The genetic mechanism of mimetic coloration in bumblebees |
| Matthew Jensen | Gene discoveries in autism are biased towards intellectual disability |
| Binglan Li | Data Integration towards Comprehensive Models of Complex Diseases |
| Xinyuan Zhang | Simulation Study on Different Case-Control Sample Sizes for Rare-Variant Association Analysis |
| Alex Harris | Detection of selective sweeps from unphased genotypes |
| Hillary Koch | An extreme value spliced mixture model for the clone size distribution of the immune repertoire |
| Saturday | |
| Presenter | Talk Title |
| Nabeel Ahmed | Evolutionarily-encoded Translation Kinetics Coordinate Co-translational Ssb Chaperone Binding in Yeast |
| Bruce Chen | Dynamic Landscape of L1 Transposition Revealed with Functional Data Analysis |
| Fan Song | An Integrative Detection and Analysis of Structural Variations in Cancer Genomes |
| Monika Cechova | Heterochromatin variation among great apes |
| Yafei Lyu | A screening procedure for fused graphical lasso |
| Tao Yang | Deeprimer: Predicting the AmpliSeq performance |
| Tarik Salameh | SNP-based drug response modeling: A summary of goals, challenges, and advancements in pharmacogenomics |
| Robert Nichols | The Who, What, and Where of the microbiome, Combining metagenomics, 16S sequencing and metabolomics to get a clear picture of systematic effects of environmental toxins and novel drugs |
| Bo Zhang | Epigenetic regulation in T-ALL by Ikaros |
| Di Wu | Intraspecies variation in green ash response to an invasive insect |