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.
September 7, 2012 @ 03:30 pm
to September 8, 2012 @ 06:35 pm
2012 Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat
Keller Building and Life Sciences Building, University Park
General Information Directions, parking and lodging information Workshop There will also be a free hands-on RNA-seq analysis workshop on Friday afternoon. Please note: registration for the workshop is now closed. Register for the retreat Please note: registration for the retreat is now closed. Program Friday, September 7, 2012 When What Where 2:30-4:30pm Hands-on workshop - topic: R/bioconductor, RNA-seq analysis 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-S anchez) 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. Poster session Any registered participant can present a poster. Students in the Bioinformatics and Genomics program are required to present a poster. This is a great opportunity to discuss your research with faculty and students in the Bioinformatics and Genomics community at Penn State as well as with our distinguished keynote speaker! Instructions for poster presenters
Contact
Chris Morrissey
csm165@psu.edu