Friday, April 27, 2018
Conference Award Winners
Lightning Talk: Ellie Bors, Population genomics of rapid range expansion during marine invasions
Poster: Lilian Padgitt-Cobb, Toward a phased, diploid assembly of the hop genome
Program
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster & lightning talk slides setup) |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Chris Sullivan, Assistant Director for Biocomputing, CGRB Opening Remarks |
| Moderator: Duo Jiang, Assistant Professor, Statistics | |
| 9:10 – 10:00 | Haiyan Huang, UC Berkeley Inferring Gene Interactions and Functional Modules Beyond Standard Statistical Models |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Break,time for poster setup |
| 10:25 – 10:50 | David Hendrix, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, EECS Large-scale Automated Annotation and Analysis of RNA Secondary Structure |
| 10:50 – 12:15 | Lightning talks Moderator: Molly Megraw, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology |
| 12:15 – 1:20 | Lunch and Poster Session (Poster & Lightning Talk slides judged) Poster & lightning talk ballot envelopes will be picked up for counting right after lunch |
| Moderator: Rebecca Hutchinson, Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife, EECS | |
| 1:20 – 1:45 | Susan Tilton, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Molecular Toxicology A 3D Vitro Respiratory Model for Predicting Chemical Toxicity |
| 1:45 – 2:10 | Stephen Ramsey, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, EECS Machine-Learning for Identifying Functional Noncoding SNPs |
| 2:10 – 2:35 | Clinton Epps, Associate Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife, CAS Genetic applications in the Conservation and Management of Bighorn Sheep |
| 2:35 – 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 – 3:50 | Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning and Game Theory for Biodiversity Conservation |
| 3:50 – 4:00 | Vrushali Bokil, Associate Professor, Mathematics Awards and Closing Remarks |
Thank you to our conference committee:
Vrushali Bokil – Associate Professor, Mathematics
Rebecca Hutchinson – Assistant Professor, EECS, Fisheries & Wildlife
Duo Jiang – Assistant Professor, Statistics
Molly Megraw – Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology
