Friday, April 27, 2018

Conference Award Winners

Lightning Talk: Ellie Bors, Population genomics of rapid range expansion during marine invasions
Poster: Lilian Padgitt-Cobb, Toward a phased, diploid assembly of the hop genome

Program

8:00 – 9:00	Registration & refreshments (Poster & lightning talk slides setup)
9:00 – 9:10	Chris Sullivan, Assistant Director for Biocomputing, CGRB Opening Remarks
	Moderator: Duo Jiang, Assistant Professor, Statistics
9:10 – 10:00	Haiyan Huang, UC Berkeley Inferring Gene Interactions and Functional Modules Beyond Standard Statistical Models
10:00 – 10:25	Break,time for poster setup
10:25 – 10:50	David Hendrix, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, EECS Large-scale Automated Annotation and Analysis of RNA Secondary Structure
10:50 – 12:15	Lightning talks Moderator: Molly Megraw, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology
12:15 – 1:20	Lunch and Poster Session (Poster & Lightning Talk slides judged) Poster & lightning talk ballot envelopes will be picked up for counting right after lunch
	Moderator: Rebecca Hutchinson, Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife, EECS
1:20 – 1:45	Susan Tilton, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology A 3D Vitro Respiratory Model for Predicting Chemical Toxicity
1:45 – 2:10	Stephen Ramsey, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, EECS Machine-Learning for Identifying Functional Noncoding SNPs
2:10 – 2:35	Clinton Epps, Associate Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife, CAS   Genetic applications in the Conservation and Management of Bighorn Sheep
2:35 – 3:00	Break
3:00 – 3:50	Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning and Game Theory for Biodiversity Conservation
3:50 – 4:00	Vrushali Bokil, Associate Professor, Mathematics Awards and Closing Remarks

Thank you to our conference committee:

Vrushali Bokil – Associate Professor, Mathematics
Rebecca Hutchinson – Assistant Professor, EECS, Fisheries & Wildlife
Duo Jiang – Assistant Professor, Statistics
Molly Megraw – Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology