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Fall Conference 2016

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Friday, September 9, 2016

Poster Award Winners

 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

Program

8:00Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup) 
9:00Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB
Introduction, CGRB update
  Moderator: David Maddison, Integrative Biology
9:25Stephanie Yarwood, University of Maryland
Are Urban Centers leading to Microbial Biodiversity Loss?
10:10Carol Mallory-Smith,  Crop & Soil Science 
National Academies Report:Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects
10:35Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays)
11:00Chrissa Kioussi, College of Pharmacy  
Myopathies and Metabolic Syndrome
11:25Susan Tilton, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology
Role of miRNAs in pulmonary inflammation associated with diet and smoking
11:50Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University
Genome-scale Evolutionary Inference using Site Pattern Frequencies
12:35Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
  Moderator: Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences
1:50Michael Wing, Forest Engineering, Resources & Management 
Natural resource phenotyping with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) 
2:15Fuxin Li, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Object Recognition and Semantic Segmentation in the Deep Learning Era
2:40George Perry, University of Texas, San Antonio 
Role of Mitochondria in the Oxidative Stress of Alzheimer Disease
3:25Break (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
3:50Jim Strother, Integrative Biology
Unraveling neural circuits using genetically encoded probes   
4:15Patrick Chappell, Biomedical Sciences 
An in vitro exploration into the effects of estrogen and endocrine disruptors on neuroendocrine regulation of puberty and reproduction in females
4:40Roy Haggerty, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Research
Closing remarks
5:00 – 7:30Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays

Thank you to our conference committee:

David Maddison, Integrative Biology
Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences
Steven Strauss, Forest Ecosystems & Society

Thank you to our sponsors:

Applied Biosystems
Illumina
Invitrogen
Pacific Biosciences

CGRB Seminar Series 2016-2017

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Fall Term 2016
September 28, 2016Matthew Andrews 
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Administration
OSU, Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Genes that control hibernation in mammals
October 12, 2016Zhongchi Liu
University of Maryland
Genomic approaches to identify genes and gene networks that regulate strawberry fruit development 

Host: Steve Strauss
October 26, 2016Susannah Tringe
Joint Genome Institute
Microbial communities and greenhouse gas cycling in coastal wetlands
Host: Dave Myrold
November 9, 2016William Cresko
University of Oregon
The genomic basis of stickleback evolution in 50 years
Host: Brett Tyler
December 7, 2016
 Speaker rescheduled to February 1, 2017
Winter Term 2017
January 18, 2017Keith Dunker
Indiana University
A Toolkit for Developmental Biology:
Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Alternative Splicing, and Post-translational Modification (IDP-AS-PTM)
Host: Andy Karplus 
February 1, 2017Liang Huang
OSU, Computer Science
Linear-Time Prediction of RNA Secondary Structures 
February 15, 2017Sue Biggins
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
How do cells get the right chromosomes?
Host: Michael Freitag 
March 7, 2017Special Seminar
4:00 – 5:00 pm
ALS 4001		Yuanchao Wang
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Defense and counter-defense during Phytophthora infection
Host: Brett Tyler
March 15, 2017Aaron Wright
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Activity-based profiling of nutrient acquisition and metabolism in microbes and microbial communities
Host: Dave Myrold
Spring Term 2017
April 5, 2017Noah Fierer
University of Colorado Boulder
Searching for simplicity amidst the complexity of the soil microbiome
Host: Thomas Sharpton 
April 19, 2017Lisa Fauci
Tulane University
Explorations in the bio-fluid-mechanics of locomotion
Host: Juan Restrepo 
May 3, 2017John Reinitz
University of Chicago
From Drosophilidae to Sepsidae…and Back Again
Host: David Hendrix
May 17, 2017Laura Heiser
Oregon Health & Science University
An integrative systems biology approach to study therapeutic response in breast cancer
Host: Siva Kolluri
May 31, 2017June Medford
Colorado State University
Plant Synthetic Biology:  From Computational Protein Designs and Engineering Approaches comes a pathway to sustainable systems
Host: Molly Megraw