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 16, 2011 @ 05:00 pm
to September 17, 2011 @ 07:00 pm
2011 Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat
Life Sciences Building, University Park
General Information Directions, parking and lodging information Registration Registration is closed. Program Friday, September 16th, 2011 when what where 4:00-4:30 Registration First floor, Life Sciences Building 4:30-4:35 Opening Remarks Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 4:35-5:35 What will it take for genomics to do good? Can genomics and bioinformatics really help human health? Comparative and functional genomics of plants to enhance food security. Bioinformatics skills of the present and future Dr. Ross Hardison, Dr. Claude dePamphilis, Dr. Istvan Albert Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 5:35-5:50 Coffee Break / Collect Questions Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 5:50-6:35 Panel Discussion Dr. Ross Hardison, Dr. Claude dePamphilis, Dr. Istvan Albert Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 6:35-8:05 Dinner* and Poster Session 1 Ground floor, Life Sciences Building Saturday, September 17th, 2011 when what where 9:00-10:30 Session 1 Curiosity, serendipity, genomics, and insight into biology and human history Dr. Keith Cheng Polygenic pleiotropy in craniofacial variation: association mapping of 15 craniofacial traits in an F34 mouse population Nathaniel Cannon A comparison study of methods to detect complex, multilocus genetic and GxE interactions Dr. David Miller A biologically informed method for detecting associations with rare variants Carrie Buchanan Systems mapping: how to design crop ideotypes through plant economy Dr. Rongling Wu Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break First floor, Life Sciences Building 11:00-12:00 Session 2 A look at the Earth microbiome project Dr. Mary Ann Bruns Combinatorial use of poly-A/T tracts in organizing genes, nucleosomes and the transcription machinery in Dictyostelium Gue-Su Chang Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: implications for infectious disease dynamics and control Dr. Marcel Salathe Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 12:00-1:00 Keynote Speaker Human evolution revealed by extinct hominin genomes Dr. Richard Edward Green Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 1:00-2:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2 Ground floor, Life Sciences Building 2:30-4:00 Session 3 Challenges and opportunities for eco-evolutionary genomics with trees Dr. John Carlson GCD: a new method for identifying gene families from genomic sequence data Dr. Zhenguo Zhang Evolution for genomic rearrangements in Drosophila Dr. Stephen Schaeffer A fine line between friend and foe: comparative genomics of the Fungi Josh Herr Standing genotype variation is basis for coral survival of temperature stress Dr. Iliana Baums Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 4:00-4:30 Coffee Break First floor, Life Sciences Building 4:30-6:00 Session 4 Translational microbial pathogenomics Dr. Vivek Kapur Host microflora and respiratory pathogen interactions during infection: a multidisciplinary approach Olivier Rolin Characterizing the ciprofloxacin-inducible bacteriophage populations of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by 454 sequencing Dr. Edward Dudley The genomic structure and transctiptome of the male-specific region in the bovine Y chromosome Ti-Cheng Chang Cancer Epigenetics Dr. Sagarika Kanjilal Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 6:00- Concluding Remarks Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building * Meals are provided through the generosity of Institute of Proteomics, Genomics and Bioinformatics and Microbial Functional Genomics graduate training program. Poster session Any participant can present a poster. Students are particularly encouraged to present. 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 our distinguished keynote speakers. Instructions for poster presenters
Contact
Jihye Park
jup139@psu.edu