The retreat consists of a one-and-a-half day meeting featuring a keynote speaker, faculty and student talks, data visualization workshop and poster presentations. Dr. Peter J. Park as the keynote speaker.
September 12, 2014 @ 05:00 pm
to September 13, 2014 @ 06:00 pm
2014 Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat
Life Sciences Building, University Park
General Information Directions, parking and lodging information Register for the retreat Registration is now closed. Workshop There will be a free hands on data visualization workshop on Saturday afternoon. _ Feedback Send us your feedback! _ __ Program (*schedule subject to change) Friday, September 12, 2014 When What Where 3:50-4:00pm 4:00-4:05pm Coffee _ Opening remarks _ 4:05-5:45pm Session 1_ Dr. Kateryna Makova :_"Maternal Age Effect and Severe Germline Bottleneck in the Inheritance of Human Mitochondrial DNA" ** Dr. Raquel Assis : "Functional evolution of duplicate genes in Drosophila and mammals" Dr. Michael DeGiorgio : "A likelihood-based approach for detecting selective sweeps" Dr. William Noid : "Deciphering the glycosylation code" Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 5:45-5:50pm Break First floor, Life Sciences Building 5:50-7:00pm Keynote Speaker _Dr. Peter J Park (Harvard University) "Discovering somatic alterations in cancer genomes using whole-genome sequencing"_ Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 7:00pm- Dinner and poster session 1 Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building Saturday,_September 13, 2014 When What Where 8:30am _ 9:00-10:30am Coffee and breakfast _ Session 2 Dr. Ed O"Brien :_"Physical Bioinformatics: Transcriptome-wide codon translation rates in yeast have broad distributions and diverse origins" Rohit Reja :_"Transcription Factor Organization at Ribosomal Protein Genes" Dr. Feng Yue : "Dynamic Enhancer Landscapes during Pancreatic differentiation of human ES cells" Yin Tang :_"Hidden RNA codes revealed from the plant in vivo RNA structurome" Dr. Vasant Honavar :"Computational Prediction of Macromolecular Interfaces, Interactions, and Complexes" _ _ Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 10:30-10:45am Coffee break First floor, Life Sciences Building 10:45-12:30pm Session 3 _ Dr. Georgia Dunston : "Introducing a Biophysics Perspective on the Science of Human Genome Information Dynamics in Population Genomics" ** Arslan Zaidi :_"The world face space: Modeling the effects of genetic ancestry on 3D facial shape" Dr._Judie Ann Howrylak :_"Integrative Genomics Approaches to Acute Respiratory Distress" Jason Miller :_"RIP-seq provides new insight on how RNA is regulated" _ Dr. Dajiang J. Liu :_"Unveiling the genetic architecture of lipids levels via large scale meta-analysis" Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 12:30-2:00pm Lunch and poster session 2 Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building 2:00-3:20pm Session 4 -- Visualization Workshop _Dr. Sarah Pendergrass, Dr. Stephen W. Schaeffer and Anastasia Lucas Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building _ 3:20-3:40pm Coffee break First floor, Life Sciences Building 3:40-5:00pm Session 5 - Visualization Workshop _Dr. Sarah Pendergrass, Dr. Stephen W. Schaeffer and Anastasia Lucas Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building _ 5:00-5:05pm Concluding remarks Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 6:00pm- Students" evening social TBD _** - Special talks 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
Rohit Reja
rzr142@psu.edu