This year we are honored to host THE leader in Functional Genomics, Dr. Michael Snyder, two concurrent statistics sessions to honor Dr. Herman Chernoff, the winner of this year s Rao Prize.
October 4, 2013 @ 05:00 pm
to October 5, 2013 @ 06:00 pm
2013 Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat
Life Sciences Building, University Park
General Information Directions, parking and lodging information Registration is now closed. Feedback Send us your feedback! Program Friday, October 4, 2013 When What Where 3:50-4:00pm 4:00-4:05pm Coffee Official opening remarks 4:05-5:25pm Opening talks by new BG faculty Impacts of genetic variation in the neurotropic herpesviruses (Dr. Moriah Szpara) Exploring Transcription and Metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum (Dr. Manuel Llinas) The genetics underlying red mimetic wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly radiation (Dr. Heather Hines) An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of cisRegulatory Elements in the Mouse Genome (Dr. Feng Yue) Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 5:25-5:30pm Break First floor, Life Sciences Building 5:30-6:40pm Keynote address Chair: Dr. Ross Hardison Adventures in Personalized Medicine: Personal Omics Profiling for monitoring Healthy and Disease States (Dr. Michael Snyder, Stanford University) Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 6:40pm- Dinner and poster session 1 Third floor bridge, Life Sciences Building Saturday, October 5, 2013 When What Where 8am 8:30-10:40am Coffee and breakfast Special session 1 - Rao s Prize Ceremony 8:30 - Welcome address 9.00 - Discovering Influential Variables: A Method of Partitions (Dr. Herman Chernoff, Harvard University and M.I.T.) 10:00 - Interaction-based learning in genomic analysis (Dr. Shaw-Hwa Lo, Columbia University) Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 10:40-11:00am Coffee break First floor, Life Sciences Building 11:00-12:20am Session 2 - STAT/BG A general framework of association measures with application to genetics (Dr. Tian Zheng, Columbia University) Segmenting the human genome based on states of neutral genetic divergence (Dr. Francesca Chiaromonte) 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 3 - Bioinformatics and Genomics I What makes bioinformatics hard? The challenges of Big Data. (Dr. Istvan Albert) How do transcription factors find their binding sites? (Dr. Shaun Mahony) A Comprehensive Genome-wide binding of GATA1 during Erythroid Development via High Resolution ChIP-exo. (Garam Han) Regulation of transcription during hematopoietic differentiation. (Tejaswini Mishra) Faster, better, and cooler: methods for sequencing data, from base calling to genome assembly (Dr. Paul Medvedev) Concurrent session - Rao s Prize workshop Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 009 Life Sciences Building 3:20-3:40pm Coffee break First floor, Life Sciences Building 3:40-5:00pm Session 4 - Bioinformatics and Genomics II Pathogen evolution and adaptation to changing host. (Dr. Eric Harvill) A case study of hyper-mutator bacteria in antibiotic resistance (Juan Raygoza) Integration of genomics data to model chemotherapeutic drug response on the HapMap cell lines (Ruowang Li) Reconstruction and analysis of genome-scale models of metabolism (Akhil Kumar) Hidden Codes in RNA: the in vivo RNA Structurome (Dr. Sarah Assmann) Concurrent session - Rao s Prize workshop Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 009 Life Sciences Building 5:00-5:05pm Concluding remarks Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building 5:05pm- Students' evening social TBD For information regarding the Rao s Prize Workshop, please contact Professor Runze Li. 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
Boris Rebolledo-Jaramillo
boris@bx.psu.edu