In celebration of our recent name change, the theme for this year is “Frontiers at the Intersection of the Life & Quantitative Sciences.” Anyone with an interest in life sciences or quantitative sciences is invited to attend. The Fall Conference will feature excellent science presentations from invited guest speakers, OSU faculty, students and staff.
Because this is our first conference since our name change (and because the event is fully online this year) the conference this year is completely free for all attendees.
The poster session will be held online on Friday, September 17. More details of the format and time will be provided soon. Posters are welcome from all participants. Posters from registered undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows/trainees will be eligible for one of three cash awards, and there will be one award for lighting talks.
DEADLINES
Lightning Talk Registration: September 10
Poster Registration: September 15
Conference Registration: September 15
Thank you to our 2021 Fall Conference Committee
Kevin Brown, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, & Environmental Engineering Molly Burke, Integrative Biology Maude David, Microbiology & Pharmaceutical Sciences Patrick De Leenheer, Mathematics and Integrative Biology Perry Hystad, Public Health & Human Science Natalia Shulzhenko, Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine
Frontiers at the Intersection of the Life and Quantitative Sciences
Friday, September 17, 2021 Online
Location
Time
Event
Conference Floor
8:00
Doors open. Explore the virtual conference space and watch a SpatialChat tutorial
Stage
9:00
Brett Tyler, Director, CQLSIntroduction to the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences
Stage
9:30
Matthew Bennett, Professor of Biosciences, Rice UniversityDynamics of synthetic gene circuits: from cells to consortia to organisms
Free
10:15
Break (setup for posters)
Stage
10:45
Gail Rosen, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel UniversityMachine Learning of Microbiomes: Learning and Exploring Structure and Function of DNA and Proteins at Multiple Scales
Stage
11:30
Richard Rodrigues, Bioinformatician at Leidos Biomedical Research, IncHost-Microbiome Multi-Omics Data Integration in Cancer Immunotherapy
Discussion Rooms
12:00
Lunch (networking with guest speakers and Presentation by Agilent from 12:15-12:45)
Stage
1:00
Maya Kaelberer, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Duke UniversitySugar transduction in the gut
Stage
1:45
Marian Hettiaratchi, Assistant Professor, University of OregonDeveloping Biomaterials for Tissue Repair using Bio-transport Modeling
Stage
2:15
Mark Phillips, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State UniversityUsing Experimental Evolution to Study the Genetics of Adaptation
Kevin Brown, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, & Environmental Engineering Molly Burke, Integrative Biology Maude David, Microbiology & Pharmaceutical Sciences Patrick De Leenheer, Mathematics and Integrative Biology Perry Hystad, Public Health & Human Science Natalia Shulzhenko, Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine
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
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
The CGRB 2019 Fall conference registration is now open! Please join us for our annual event this September for informative talks, posters and a reception. This year the Fall Conference will also include lighting talks.
Important Information:
When: Friday, September 20, 2019
Where: CH2M Hill Alumni Center – Oregon State University
Andrew Annalora, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Exploring Splice Variant Biology in Nuclear Receptor and Cytochrome P450 Genes
9:40 – 10:30
Ed Kelly, University of Washington Organs on a Chip – Chips in Space
10:30 – 10:55
Break (Poster and Sponsor displays)
10:55 – 11:35
Morning Lightning Talks (8 talks) – moderated by Jeff Anderson
11:35– 12:00
Felipe Barreto, Integrative Biology Genomics in the Tidepool: Functional and Population Genetics of Adaptation and Speciation in a Tiny Crustacean
12:00 – 12:25
Kevin Brown, College of Pharmacy Adventures in Complex Systems
12:25 – 1:25
Lunch (Poster and Sponsor displays)
Afternoon Session
Hosted By Craig Marcus
1:25 – 1:50
Afua Nyarko, Biochemistry and Biophysics Selectivity and Specificity in Cancer Regulatory Proteins
1:50 – 2:40
Daniel Liefwalker, Oregon Health and Science University Therapeutic strategies targeting c-MYC
2:40 – 3:20
Afternoon Lightning Talks (8 talks) – Moderated By Viviana Perez
3:20 – 3:45
Break 25 mins (Poster and Sponsor displays)
3:45 – 4:10
Morgan Giers, Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering Regenerating the Intervertebral Disc: Developing Effective Therapies in a Nutrient Limited Environment
4:10 – 5:00
Doris Taylor, Texas Heart Institute Building Solutions for Heart Disease: A 2019 Update
5:00 – 7:30
Poster Session / Reception, Sponsor Displays
Call for posters!
Invitation to present a Poster at the 2019 CGRB FALL CONFERENCE (Sept 20, 2019) Students, Post Docs, Research Staff and Research Faculty are invited to present their research as a Poster. Presenters are strongly encouraged but not required to consider utilizing a revolutionary new trend in poster format: https://twitter.com/mikemorrison
https://osf.io/ef53g (Posters in any format displayed at recent meetings are also welcome) Prizes for Best Posters: $100 (Undergraduate, Graduate and Post Doc Categories).
All fields and research topics welcome. To submit a Poster, please navigate to https://beav.es/ZPd DEADLINE Sept. 7, 2019.
Call for lightning talks!
Invitation to present a Lightning Talk at the 2019 CGRB FALL CONFERENCE (Sept. 20, 2019) https://cgrb.oregonstate.edu/fall-conference Students, Post Docs, Research Staff (FRA, Res. Associates, etc.), and Research Faculty are invited to present their research as a 5-minute Lightning Talk at the annual CGRB Fall Conference, Friday Sept. 20, 2019. First Prize for Best Lightning Talk = $100 Conference Registration Fee is waivedfor all Lightning Talk Presenters
All fields and research topics welcome. To submit a lightning talk: Please navigate to beav.es/ZPA
Talks are limited to 5 minutes and 5 slides maximum. Please Submit no Later Than: August 15, 2019. Talks will be selected by the Program Committee and Presenters notified by Aug. 31, 2019.
Committee Members
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Arizona State University Combinomics to understand biological soil crusts
10:10
Kimberly Halsey, Microbiology Phytoplankton strategies for using the energy from photosynthesis
10:35
Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays)
11:00
Ryan Mehl, Biochemistry & Biophysics Defining Roles of NitroTyrosine in Disease via Genetic Code Expansion
11:25
Jeff Anderson, Botany & Plant Pathology Regulation of Pseudomonas syringae Virulence by Host Plant-derived Metabolite Signals
11:50
James Giovannoni, Cornell University Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening; genes to genome
12:35
Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
Moderator: Laurent Deluc, Horticulture
1:50
Wei Kong, Chemistry Coherent electron diffraction of single molecules embedded in superfluid helium droplets: A possible solution to the problem of protein crystallization
2:15
Patrick Hayes, Crop & Soil Science Fun with barley: from flowering to flavor
2:40
Marc Johnson, University of Missouri How to dress your virus. Learning how viruses select the right host membrane for proper assembly
3:25
Break (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
Moderator: Chrissa Kioussi, College of Pharmacy
3:50
Olena Taratula, College of Pharmacy Multifunctional Theranostic Nanoplatforms for Image-Guided Surgery and Intraoperative Therapy
4:15
Andy Jones, Botany & Plant Pathology Intraspecific variation in drought responses of tropical tree seedlings: consequences for species distributions under climate change
4:40
Cynthia Sagers, Vice President of Research Closing remarks
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
Jim Carrington, CGRB DirectorModerator: Lynda Ciuffetti
5:10
Christopher Sulliivan, CGRB “Recent Advances within the CGRB Computational Infrastructure”
5:20
Mark Leid, Pharmaceutical Sciences“Ctip2/Bcl11b: A Top-Level Regulator of Cell Fate in Multiple Developmental Systems”
5:45
Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology“Chemical and Physical Signals and their Interactions in Plant Stem Cell Control”
6:30-9:00
Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00
Joseph Spatafora, Botany & Plant Pathology“Tolypocladium inflatum: A Home Grown Genome”
9:25
Pallavi Phatale, Botany & Plant Pathology“Genetic Studies to Uncover Rules for Centromere Inheritance”
9:50
Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School”Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System”
11:00
P. Andrew Karplus, Biochemistry and Biophysics“A Beneficial Bulge: TT-Helices and the Evolution of Proteins”
11:25
Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research“OSU Research Now, Next, and After Next”
1:15
Award Presentation
1:20
Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School“Phylogenetic Profiling of the Small RNA Pathway Genes of C. elegans”
2:05
Doug Bryant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science“Next-Generation Hybrid Empirical-ab initio Gene Prediction”
2:30
Daniel Schafer, Statistics“Some Lessons from the Biometry of Evolution and the Evolution of Biometry”
3:30
Gene D.Kundson Lectures featuring Peter & Rosemary Grant, Princeton University“Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: The Roles of Genetics, Ecology and Behavior”
