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
