Friday, September 9, 2016
Poster Award Winners
Postdoc/Trainee: Rodrigo Goncalves, Functional characterization of chromo domain proteins
Grad student: Martin Pearce, Targeting therapy resistant cancer through the Bcl-2 family of proteins
Undergrad student: Madeleine Duquette & Anna Co, P. sojae revertants: return of the virulence
Program
| 8:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup) |
| 9:00 | Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update |
| Moderator: David Maddison, Integrative Biology | |
| 9:25 | Stephanie Yarwood, University of Maryland Are Urban Centers leading to Microbial Biodiversity Loss? |
| 10:10 | Carol Mallory-Smith, Crop & Soil Science National Academies Report:Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects |
| 10:35 | Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays) |
| 11:00 | Chrissa Kioussi, College of Pharmacy Myopathies and Metabolic Syndrome |
| 11:25 | Susan Tilton, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Role of miRNAs in pulmonary inflammation associated with diet and smoking |
| 11:50 | Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University Genome-scale Evolutionary Inference using Site Pattern Frequencies |
| 12:35 | Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays) |
| Moderator: Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences | |
| 1:50 | Michael Wing, Forest Engineering, Resources & Management Natural resource phenotyping with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) |
| 2:15 | Fuxin Li, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Object Recognition and Semantic Segmentation in the Deep Learning Era |
| 2:40 | George Perry, University of Texas, San Antonio Role of Mitochondria in the Oxidative Stress of Alzheimer Disease |
| 3:25 | Break (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays) |
| 3:50 | Jim Strother, Integrative Biology Unraveling neural circuits using genetically encoded probes |
| 4:15 | Patrick Chappell, Biomedical Sciences An in vitro exploration into the effects of estrogen and endocrine disruptors on neuroendocrine regulation of puberty and reproduction in females |
| 4:40 | Roy Haggerty, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Research Closing remarks |
| 5:00 – 7:30 | Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays |
Thank you to our conference committee:
David Maddison, Integrative Biology
Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences
Steven Strauss, Forest Ecosystems & Society
Thank you to our sponsors:
