September 20-21, 2009
Program
| 3:00 pm | Registration & poster setup |
| 4:00 | Welcome Reception |
| 5:00 | Jim Carrington, CGRB DirectorAchievements of the Computational & Genome Biology Initiative |
| 5:20 | Noah Fahlgren, MCB Graduate ProgramSmall RNA Transcriptome Profiling and Evolution |
| 5:40 | Jason Cumbie, MCB Graduate ProgramComputational and Statistical Tools for Type III Effector Transcriptome Profiling |
| 6:00 | Kristina Smith, Biochemistry & BiophysicsEvolution of Centromeres in Filamentous Fungi |
| 6:25 | Steve Jacobsen, University of California, Los AngelesDNA Methylation |
| 7:05-9:00 | Poster session; Sponsor displays |
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
| 9:00 | Chrissa Kioussi, College of PharmacyGoodies for the Tooth Fairy: Ctip2 and the Production of Enamel |
| 9:25 | Adrian Gombart, Linus Pauling InstituteVitamin D and Human Innate Immunity |
| 9:50 | Joseph Thornton, University of OregonEvolution of Protein Structure and Function in the Steroid Hormone Receptor Family |
| 10:55 | Pankaj Jaiswal, Botany & Plant PathologyOntologies for Plant Genomics and Phenomics |
| 11:20 | Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes du CNRS, StrasbourgGenomics, Mechanisms and Roles of Small Silencing RNA |
| 1:00 | Announcement of Poster Awards |
| 1:10 | Roundtable Discussion – Issues Affecting Research, Funding & Education in Molecular Biosciences at OSUPanelists: Howard Grimes, Washington State University; Sonny Ramaswamy, Oregon State University; Steve Jacobsen, UCLA; Michael Lynch, Indiana University |
| 3:05 | Michael Lynch, Indiana UniversityThe Origins of Genome Complexity |
| 3:45 | William Cresko, University of OregonPopulation Genomic Analysis of Stickleback Evolution Using Illumina-Sequenced RAD tags |