Friday, October 12, 2018
Poster Award Winners
Undergraduate student: Michaela Buchanan, Computer Sci/Biochemistry & Biophysics Using GPUs to Classify Oceans of Data
Graduate student: Courtney Armour, MCB A Metagenomic Meta-Analysis Reveals Functional Signatures of Health and Disease in the Human Gut Microbiome
Postdoc/Trainer: T. William O’Neill, Biomedical Sciences Creating 3-Dimensional Models from Serial Histologic Sections Using Open-Source Software
| 8:00 | Registration & refreshments (Poster & sponsor setup) |
| 9:00 | Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB Introduction |
| 9:30 | Helen Poynton, University of Massachusetts The Toxicogenome of Hyalella Azteca, building genomic resources for healthy ecosystems |
| 10:20 | Break (Poster & sponsor setup / displays) |
| 10:45 | Gerrad Jones, Biological & Ecological Engineering Environmental Change Drives Global Soil Element Fluxes |
| 11:15 | James Watson, College of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science Manifold Learning of Multi-scale Dynamics in Complex Systems |
| 11:45 | Joe Christison, Office of Commercialization & Corporate Development Patenting and Commercializing University Discoveries |
| 12:10 | Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays) |
| 1:15 | Daniel Coleman, OHSU Targeting BET Bromodomain Proteins in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer |
| 2:10 | Maria Franco, Biochemistry & Biophysics Role of Redox Signaling in Tumor Metabolic Reprogramming |
| 2:40 | James Strother, Integrative Biology Elucidation of neural circuit structures through imaging, optogenetics, and behavior |
| 3:05 | Break |
| 3:30 | Maude David, Depts of Microbiology & Pharmacy Children with autism and their typically-developing siblings differ in exact sequence variants and predicted functions of stool-associated microbes |
| 4:00 | Vladimir Shulaev, University of North Texas Neuroprotective effect of 17β-Estradiol (E2) on rat brain |
| 4:50 | Closing remarks |
| 5:00 – 7:30 | Poster Session/Reception, Sponsor Displays |
Thank you to our conference committee:
Jared LeBoldus, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology
Claudia Maier, Professor, Chemistry
Natalia Shulzhenko, Assistant Professor, Vet Biomedical Science
