Friday, April 7, 2017
Conference Award Winners:
Lightning Talk: Zachary Foster, “Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data”
Poster: Khiem Lam, “Exploring the Microbiome of Cervical Cancer through Transkingdom Networks”
Program
| 8:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster & lightning talk slides setup) |
| 9:00 | Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 | Ian Muñoz, Assistant Computational Scientist, CGRB Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Batch Processing |
| 9:25 | Lightning talksModerator: Stephen Ramsey, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences and School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
| 10:35 | Break (Poster setup) |
| 11:00 | Brent Kronmiller, Bioinformatics Analyst, CGRB Draft Genome of the North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) |
| 11:25 | Reidun Twarock, Departments of Mathematics and Biology University of York, England Solving a Viral Enigma: Discovery of a hidden code in RNA viral genomes provides a new perspective on viral evolution and anti-viral therapy |
| 12:15 | Lunch and Poster Session (Posters & Lightning Talk slides judged) Poster & lightning talk ballot envelopes will be picked up for counting right after lunch |
| Moderator: Duo Jiang, Assistant Professor, Statistics | |
| 1:20 | Katherine McLaughlin, Assistant Professor, Statistics Accessing Hidden Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS Using Respondent-Driven Sampling |
| 1:45 | Afua Nyarko, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics Molecular basis for regulation of the Yorkie transcription co-activator |
| 2:10 | Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor, Statistics Union-of-Intersection (UoI) methods for Data-driven Discovery and Prediction |
| 2:35 | Break |
| 3:00 | Molly Megraw, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology Using Machine Learning Models to Determine the Principles Behind Tissue-Specific Gene Expression |
| 3:25 | Benjamin Dalziel, Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Mathematics Cities as natural experiments in bacterial metacommunity dynamics |
| 3:50 | Awards Ceremony, Brett Tyler |
| 4:00 | Reinhard Laubenbacher, Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health Iron metabolism and its role in breast cancer |
| 4:50 | David Hendrix, Biochemistry & Biophysics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Closing remarks |