Friday, October 12, 2018


Poster Award Winners

Undergraduate student: Michaela Buchanan, Computer Sci/Biochemistry & Biophysics  Using GPUs to Classify Oceans of Data
Graduate student:  Courtney Armour, MCB  A Metagenomic Meta-Analysis Reveals Functional Signatures of Health and Disease in the Human Gut Microbiome
Postdoc/Trainer: T. William O’Neill, Biomedical Sciences  Creating 3-Dimensional Models from Serial Histologic Sections Using Open-Source Software

8:00Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup) 
9:00Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB
Introduction
9:30Helen Poynton, University of Massachusetts   
The Toxicogenome of Hyalella Azteca, building genomic resources for healthy ecosystems
10:20Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays)
10:45Gerrad Jones, Biological & Ecological Engineering
Environmental Change Drives Global Soil Element Fluxes
11:15James Watson, College of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Manifold Learning of Multi-scale Dynamics in Complex Systems
11:45Joe Christison, Office of Commercialization & Corporate Development
Patenting and Commercializing University Discoveries
12:10Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
1:15Daniel Coleman, OHSU
Targeting BET Bromodomain Proteins in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
2:10Maria Franco, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Role of Redox Signaling in Tumor Metabolic Reprogramming
2:40James Strother, Integrative Biology
Elucidation of neural circuit structures through imaging, optogenetics, and behavior
3:05Break 
3:30Maude David, Depts of Microbiology & Pharmacy
Children with autism and their typically-developing siblings differ in exact sequence variants and predicted functions of stool-associated microbes
4:00Vladimir Shulaev, University of North Texas
Neuroprotective effect of 17β-Estradiol (E2) on rat brain
4:50Closing remarks
5:00 – 7:30Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays

Thank you to our conference committee:

Jared LeBoldus, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology
Claudia Maier, Professor, Chemistry
Natalia Shulzhenko, Assistant Professor, Vet Biomedical Science

Fall Term 2018
September 26, 2018Andrew Cato
Karlsruhe Institutue of Technology, Germany
Development of Bag-1L as a Therapeutic Target in Androgen Receptor-Dependent Prostate Cancer
Host: Siva Kolluri
October 10, 2018Samara Reck-Peterson
UC San Diego
Molecular mechanisms of microtubule-based motors: how teams of motors work
Host: Michael Freitag
October 24, 2018Siobhan Brady
UC Davis
From networks to switches: systems approaches to unravel the control of biological processes necessary for plant life
Host: John Fowler/Molly Megraw
November 7, 2018Fitnat Yildiz
UC Santa Clara
Mechanisms and regulation of biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae
Host: Claudia Hase
Winter Term 2019
Feruary 8, 2019William Hersh
OHSU
Three amazing ideas about microbial biogeography that will blow your mind
Host: Denise Hynes
March 6, 2019Nadja Cech
University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Anti-Virulence Strategies Against Drug Resistant Superbugs
Host: Sandra Loesgen
Spring Term 2019
April 3, 2019Chris Marx
University of Idaho
Phenotypic heterogeneity between genetically identical cells permits growth with letal levels of formaldehyde stress
Host: Patrick de Leenheer
April 17,. 2019Melissa Haendel
OHSU/OSU
The Yellow Brick Road of Open Science: Barriers to bringing data to its highest valued use
Host: Brett Tyler
May 1, 2019Kristine Alpi
OHSU
Host: Melissa Haendel
May 15, 2019Lucia Carbone
OHSU
Host: Tom Sharpton
May 29, 2019Andrew Kern
University of Oregon
Putting the HAL in Haldane: leveraging supervised machine learning for population genetics
Host: Aaron Liston