September 19-20, 2010

Program

3:00 pmRegistration & poster setup 
4:00Welcome Reception
5:00Jim Carrington, CGRB DirectorModerator: Lynda Ciuffetti
5:10Christopher Sulliivan, CGRB “Recent Advances within the CGRB Computational Infrastructure”
5:20Mark Leid, Pharmaceutical Sciences“Ctip2/Bcl11b: A Top-Level Regulator of Cell Fate in Multiple Developmental Systems”
5:45Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology“Chemical and Physical Signals and their Interactions in Plant Stem Cell Control”
6:30-9:00Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
8:30 amCoffee and Pastries
9:00Joseph Spatafora, Botany & Plant Pathology“Tolypocladium inflatum: A Home Grown Genome”
9:25Pallavi Phatale, Botany & Plant Pathology“Genetic Studies to Uncover Rules for Centromere Inheritance” 
9:50Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School”Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System”
11:00P. Andrew Karplus, Biochemistry and Biophysics“A Beneficial Bulge: TT-Helices and the Evolution of Proteins”
11:25Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research“OSU Research Now, Next, and After Next”
1:15Award Presentation
1:20Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School“Phylogenetic Profiling of the Small RNA Pathway Genes of C. elegans”
2:05Doug Bryant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science“Next-Generation Hybrid Empirical-ab initio Gene Prediction”
2:30Daniel Schafer, Statistics“Some Lessons from the Biometry of Evolution and the Evolution of Biometry”
3:30Gene D.Kundson Lectures featuring Peter & Rosemary Grant, Princeton University“Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: The Roles of Genetics, Ecology and Behavior”
5:00 Kundson Lectures Reception
Fall Term 2010
October 6, 2010Sophien Kamoun
The Sainsbury Laboratory
John Innes Centre
Norwich, United Kingdom

“The secrets of a plant killer: Evolution and function of Phytophthora effectors”

Host: Niklaus Grunwald
October 20, 2010Matteo Pellegrini
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, Los Angeles

“Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Profiling using Illumina Sequencers”

Host: Jim Carrington
November 3, 2010Canceled
November 17, 2010Judith Berman
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
University of Minnesota

“Centromeres and neocentromeres in Candida albicans”

Host: Michael Freitag
December 1, 2010
Postponed to January 26, 2011
Inder Verma
Laboratory of Genetics
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

“Cancer: a malady of genes”

Host: Arup Indra
Winter Term 2011
January 12, 2011Cancelled
January 26, 2011Inder Verma
Laboratory of Genetics
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

“Cancer: a malady of genes”

Host: Arup Indra
February 9, 2011W. Kelley Thomas
Hubbard Center for Genome Studies
University of New Hampshire

“Ultra-deep 454 sequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, promises and pitfalls”

Host: Dee Denver
February 23, 2011Cancelled
March 9, 2011
CANCELLED
Danny Schnell
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Studies of Chloroplast Protein Targeting and Membrane Expansion as a Model for Understanding Organelle Biogenesis and Homeostasis”

Host: Valerian Dolja
Spring Term 2011
April 6, 2011Ruedi Aebersold
Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

“Proteomics and Systems Biology”

Host: Mark Leid
April 20, 2011Jeffrey Townsend
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Yale University
“Phylogenetic and comparative transcriptomic analysis of fungal fruiting body development”Host: Joey Spatafora
Friday, April 29, 2011Ellen Rothenberg
Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Transcriptional control of T-cell lineage identity” Host: Mark Leid
June 1, 2011Graham Hatfull
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
“Exploration and Exploitation of Mycobacteriophages” Hosts: Dee Denver, Theo Dreher and Barbara Taylor