Friday, September 12, 2014
Poster Award Winners
PostDoc/Trainer/Faculty: Venkatesh Moktali, FungiDB: a functional genomic resource for fungal & oomycete organisms
Grad student: Rachael C. Kuintzle, RNA-Seq Reveals Age-Induced Changes in Rhythmicity in Drosophila Transcriptome
Undergrad student: Alvin Yu, Identifying candidate drugs for atherosclerosis prevention or treatment through a systems biology approach to drug repurposing
Program
| 8:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup) |
| 9:00 | Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update |
| 9:20 | Shawn O’Neil, Adelaide Rhodes and Kelly Vining, CGRB CGRB Bioinformatics Training: We can help! |
| Moderator: Thomas Wolpert | |
| 9:30 | Sheng-Yang He, Michigan State University Bacterial pathogenesis as a probe of plant biology |
| 10:15 | Niklaus J. Grünwald, USDA –ARS/Botany & Plant Pathology Inferring pattern and process of emergence in Phytophthora pathogens |
| 10:40 | Break (Poster & sponsor setup) |
| 11:10 | Ryan Mueller, Microbiology Linking phylogenetic identity and biogeochemical function of uncultivated marine microbes with novel mass spectrometry techniques |
| [Joyce Loper introduces C. Whistler] | |
| 11:35 | Cheryl Whistler, University of New Hampshire Barbarians at the gate: Adaptive evolution of squid-naive Vibrio fischeri to light organ symbiosis |
| 12:20 | Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays) |
| Moderator: Siva Kolluri | |
| 1:35 | Michael Banks, Cooperative Institute for Marine Resource Studies (CIMRS) Enigmas Related to the Ocean Migration of Chinook Salmon |
| 2:00 | Justin Sanders, Microbiology Development of a novel vertebrate model for the cosmopolitan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii |
| 2:25 | Patrick De Leenheer, Mathematics/Integrative Biology On finding hotspots and sinks in a multipatch malaria model |
| 2:50 | Break (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays) |
| 3:15 | Prasad Kopparapu, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Fighting Cancer with its own tools |
| 3:40 | William Bisson, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Computer-aided cancer drug discovery and chemoprevention in the postgenomic era |
| 4:05 | Shankar Subramaniam, University of California – San Diego The Impact of “Omics” on Systems Medicine |
| 4:50 | Ron Adams, Interim Vice President of Research Closing remarks |
| 5:00 | Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays |
