Friday, September 20, 2019 CH2M HILL Alumni Center

Congratulations to our winners! To all the participants and presenters, another thank you for your contributions. We look forward to welcoming the CGRB Community to the 2020 Spring Conference on April 24, 2020.

Undergraduate Poster: Kelsey Shimoda “Altering metabolic gene expression in fruit flies: effects on longevity and brain aging”
Graduate Poster:             Benjamin Americus “Elegant Infection Machines: Nematocyst diversification within Myxozoa”
                                           Daniel Schneck “Phenotypic and transcriptional responses to different light regimes in allopatric populations of Tigriopus californicus”
                                            Manoj Gurung “Lactobacilli ameliorate western diet induced diabetes by preventing hepatic mitochondrial damage”
                                            Miranda Leek “A Biochemical and Biophysical Investigation into the Pathological Gain-of-Function of Nitrated Hsp90”
                                            Rebecca Veitch “Exposure to Light at Night Alters DNA Methylation and Expression of Proliferative and DNA Damage Repair Genes”
Post-Doc Poster :               Allie Graham “Independent losses of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF) Pathway within Crustacea”
Lightning Talks:                 Eileen Chow “Daily blue light exposure accelerates aging in Drosophila melanogaster”

Raffle drawing for voting in all categories:             1st place – Miranda Leek
                                                                                       2nd place – Alexandre Sathler

8:00	Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup)
8:50	Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update
9:15	Andrew Annalora, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Exploring Splice Variant Biology in Nuclear Receptor and Cytochrome P450 Genes
9:40	Ed Kelly, University of Washington Tissue Chips for Human Disease Modeling
10:20	Break
10:50	Lightning Talks Moderated by Jeff Anderson Featuring: Martin Pearce, Stephanie Bollmann, Benjamin Americus, Evan Carpenter, Eileen Chow, Lauren Chan, Nolan Newman, Alexandra Weisberg
11:35	Felipe Barreto, Integrative Biology Genomics in the Tidepool: Functional and Population Genetics of Adaptation and Speciation in a Tiny Crustacean
12:00	Kevin Brown, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering Adventures in Complex Systems
12:25	Lunch
1:25	Afua Nyarko, Biochemistry & Biophysics Selectivity and Specificity in Cancer Regulatory Proteins
1:50	Daniel Liefwalker, Oregon Health and Science University  Therapeutic strategies targeting c-MYC
2:30	Lightning Talks Moderated by Jeff Anderson Featuring: Armando Alcazar Magana, Christine Tataru, Sarah Alto, Anh Ha, Heather Forsythe, Kayla Jara, Rebecca France, Rachel Franklin
3:15	Break
3:45	Morgan Giers, Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering Regenerating the Intervertebral Disc: Developing Effective Therapies in a Nutrient Limited Environment
4:10	Doris Taylor, Texas Heart Institute Building Solutions for Heart Disease: A 2019 Update
5:00-7:30	Poster Session Reception, Sponsor Displays

THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 FALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

Jaga Giebultowicz, Department of Integrative Biology
Craig Marcus, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
Jeff Anderson, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Viviana Perez, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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

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

Friday, September 8, 2017

Poster Award Winners

 Postdoc/Trainee: Fadi El-Rami, Subcellular proteomics of the 2016 WHO Neisseria gonorrhoeae reference strains for identification of vaccine candidates and antibiotic resistance signatures
 Grad student: Aayushi Manchanda, Loss of otoferlin alters the transcriptome profile and ribbon synapse architecture of sensory hair cells
 Undergrad student: Ryan Kitchen, CASSA: The new fast GPU DNA Sequence Aligner

Program

8:00	Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup)
9:00	Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update
	Moderator: Aleksandra Sikora, Pharmaceutical Sciences
9:25	Caroline Attardo Genco, Tufts University  Sex as a variable: Distinct Neisseria gonorrhoeae gene expression signatures expressed during mucosal infection in men and women
10:10	Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays)
10:30	Nathan Campbell,  Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission  Genotyping in Thousands by sequencing: A low cost, high-throughput, targeted SNP genotyping method
11:15	Olena Taratula, College of Pharmacy   A Tumor-Activatable Theranostic Nanomedicine Platform for NIR Fluorescence-Guided Surgery and Phototherapy
11:40	Posy Busby, Botany & Plant Pathology  Host genetic structuring of leaf endophyte communities in Populus and Maize
12:05	Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
	Moderator: Brent Kronmiller, CGRB
1:20	Melissa Haendel, OHSU Crossing the chasm of semantic despair: ontologies to unify genomics and phenomics
2:05	Brett Tyler, Botany & Plant Pathology Does the pathogen always win – the co-evolutionary struggle between soybean and its oomycete pathogen Phytophthora sojae
2:30	Molly Burke, Integrative Biology Genomic lessons from laboratory evolution experiments
2:55	Break
3:15	Marian Waterman, UC Irvine  WNT signaling and tumor heterogeneity
4:00	Maria Clara Franco, Biochemistry & Biophysics The Two Faces of Nitrated Proteins: Neurodegeneration and Cancer
4:25	David Myrold, Crop & Soil Science Glimpses into the microbial communities of Oregon soils
4:50	Janine Trempy, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Closing remarks
5:00 – 7:30	Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays

Thank you to our conference committee:

Pankaj Jaiswal, Botany & Plant Pathology
Ryan Mehl, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Aleksandra Sikora, Pharmaceutical Sciences