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Dr. Brent Kronmiller appointed as Interim Director of the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences (CQLS)

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Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Brent Kronmiller has been selected to serve as the Interim Director of the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences (CQLS) effective March 1.

Dr. Kronmiller has been at OSU and affiliated with CQLS for 11 years. Most recently, he has served as the CQLS Assistant Director of the Bioinformatics and Data Science Group that helps consult and collaborate on bioinformatics and data science research across the university. He is also an Assistant Professor (Senior Research) in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

In the CQLS, he has provided technical and scientific advising to staff and the OSU community and provided guidance and direction to both the CQLS Biocomputing group and the CQLS Core Laboratory group. He also manages the CQLS teaching effort, courses and workshops for students and employees to learn high-performance computing (HPC), bioinformatics and data science skills. Dr. Kronmiller also provides scientific leadership for designing experiments, providing laboratory quotes and troubleshooting errors and issues.

Dr. Kronmiller succeeds Dr. Kathy Higley, who has served as CQLS interim director since December 2021. My special thanks to Kathy for leading the CQLS during this transition period for the center. While Kathy will remain as OSU faculty, she will also be assuming the duties as the President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.

Please welcome Dr. Brent Kronmiller to this new role as we take the CQLS to the next stage in support of Prosperity Widely Shared.

Best,

Irem

Irem Y. Tumer, Ph.D., ASME Fellow
Vice President for Research and Innovation
Professor, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering 

Division of Research and Innovation
Oregon State University | 541-737-0664

2021-2022 CQLS Seminar Series Schedule

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2021-22 CQLS Seminar Series Schedule

Fall Term 2021
September 29, 2021Chris Plaisier
Arizona State University
Finding new therapies for mesothelioma
October 13, 2021TRACE
Oregon State University
TRACE COVID Community Surveillance Project
October 27, 2021David Garcia
University of Oregon
Prion-based forms of RNA-modifying enzymes
November 10, 2021Ya-chieh Hsu
Harvard University
Deep: Stem Cells at the Nexus of the Niche, Physiology, and the External Environment
Winter Term 2022
January 5, 2022TBD
January 19, 2022Carrie Hanna
Oregon Health and Science University
Using genome editing technology to create biomedical models in the nonhuman primate
February 2, 2022Jennifer Nemhauser
University of Washington
Babbage’s Cabbage: The Logic of Information Processing In Plants
February 16, 2022Yanming Di
Oregon State University
What is a replicate?
March 2, 2022Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi
North Carolina State University
Environmental Regulation of Genomic Stability and Human Health through the Circadian Clock
Spring Term 2022
March 30, 2022Mike Harms
University of Oregon
Ensembles, epistasis, and evolution: how biophysics shapes evolutionary outcomes
April 13, 2022Andrew Gentles
Stanford University
Atlas of Clinically Distinct Cell States and Cellular Ecosystems Across Human Solid Tumors
April 27, 2022CANCELLED – Yehenew Agazie
West Virginia University
TBD
May 18, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022)Elias Fernandez
University of Tennessee
TBD
June 1, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022)Sourav Ghosh
Yale School of Medicine
TBD

Friday September 17, 2021

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Online

In celebration of our recent name change, the theme for this year is “Frontiers at the Intersection of the Life & Quantitative Sciences.” Anyone with an interest in life sciences or quantitative sciences is invited to attend. The Fall Conference will feature excellent science presentations from invited guest speakers, OSU faculty, students and staff. 

Because this is our first conference since our name change (and because the event is fully online this year) the conference this year is completely free for all attendees.

The poster session will be held online on Friday, September 17. More details of the format and time will be provided soon. Posters are welcome from all participants. Posters from registered undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows/trainees will be eligible for one of three cash awards, and there will be one award for lighting talks. 

DEADLINES
  • Lightning Talk Registration: September 10
  • Poster Registration: September 15
  • Conference Registration: September 15
Thank you to our 2021 Fall Conference Committee

Kevin Brown, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, & Environmental Engineering
Molly Burke, Integrative Biology
Maude David, Microbiology & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Patrick De Leenheer, Mathematics and Integrative Biology
Perry Hystad, Public Health & Human Science
Natalia Shulzhenko, Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

Fall Conference 2021

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Frontiers at the Intersection of the Life and Quantitative Sciences

Friday, September 17, 2021 Online

LocationTimeEvent
Conference Floor8:00Doors open. Explore the virtual conference space and watch a SpatialChat tutorial
Stage9:00Brett Tyler, Director, CQLSIntroduction to the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences
Stage9:30Matthew Bennett, Professor of Biosciences, Rice UniversityDynamics of synthetic gene circuits: from cells to consortia to organisms
Free10:15Break (setup for posters)
Stage10:45Gail Rosen, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel UniversityMachine Learning of Microbiomes: Learning and Exploring Structure and Function of DNA and Proteins at Multiple Scales
Stage11:30Richard Rodrigues, Bioinformatician at Leidos Biomedical Research, IncHost-Microbiome Multi-Omics Data Integration in Cancer Immunotherapy
Discussion Rooms12:00Lunch (networking with guest speakers and Presentation by Agilent from 12:15-12:45)
Stage1:00Maya Kaelberer, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Duke UniversitySugar transduction in the gut
Stage1:45Marian Hettiaratchi, Assistant Professor, University of OregonDeveloping Biomaterials for Tissue Repair using Bio-transport Modeling
Stage2:15Mark Phillips, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State UniversityUsing Experimental Evolution to Study the Genetics of Adaptation
Free2:45Break
Stage3:00Lightning Talks (you can vote for your favorite lightning talk at shell.cqls.oregonstate.edu/voting)
Poster Rooms3:45Poster Session (you can vote for your favorite poster session at shell.cqls.oregonstate.edu/voting)
Stage4:45Closing Remarks

THANK YOU TO OUR 2021 FALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

Kevin Brown, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, & Environmental Engineering
Molly Burke, Integrative Biology
Maude David, Microbiology & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Patrick De Leenheer, Mathematics and Integrative Biology
Perry Hystad, Public Health & Human Science
Natalia Shulzhenko, Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

THANK YOU TO OUR 2021 FALL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

CQLS Seminar Series 2021-2022

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Fall Term 2021
September 29, 2021Chris Plaisier
Arizona State University
Finding new therapies for mesothelioma
October 13, 2021TRACE
Oregon State University
TRACE COVID Community Surveillance Project
October 27, 2021David Garcia
University of Oregon
Prion-based forms of RNA-modifying enzymes
November 10, 2021Ya-chieh Hsu
Harvard University
Deep: Stem Cells at the Nexus of the Niche, Physiology, and the External Environment
Winter Term 2022
January 5, 2022TBD
January 19, 2022Carrie Hanna
Oregon Health and Science University
Using genome editing technology to create biomedical models in the nonhuman primate
February 2, 2022Jennifer Nemhauser
University of Washington
Babbage’s Cabbage: The Logic of Information Processing In Plants
February 16, 2022Yanming Di
Oregon State University
What is a replicate?
March 2, 2022Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi
North Carolina State University
Environmental Regulation of Genomic Stability and Human Health through the Circadian Clock
Spring Term 2022
March 30, 2022Mike Harms
University of Oregon
Ensembles, epistasis, and evolution: how biophysics shapes evolutionary outcomes
April 13, 2022Andrew Gentles
Stanford University
Atlas of Clinically Distinct Cell States and Cellular Ecosystems Across Human Solid Tumors
April 27, 2022CANCELLED – Yehenew Agazie
West Virginia University
TBD
May 18, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022)Elias Fernandez
University of Tennessee
TBD
June 1, 2022 (rescheduled for Fall2022)Sourav Ghosh
Yale School of Medicine
TBD

CGRB Seminar Series 2020-2021

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Fall Term 2020
September 30, 2020Liang Huang
Oregon State University
Fighting COVID-19 with RNA Folding and RNA Design
October 14, 2020Mak Saito
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Host: Steve Giovannoni
Exploring the use of metals in biogeochemically important enzymes in the oceans, and development of the Biogeochemical AUV Clio and the Ocean Protein Portal
October 28, 2020Scott Doney
University of Virginia
Host: Kim Halsey
Developing models of marine planktonic systems
November 18, 2020A. Murat Eren
University of Chicago
Host: Maude David and Steve Giovannoni
High-resolution insights into the genomic dynamism of closely related gut microbial populations in unrelated humans
December 2, 2020Katherine Amato
Northwestern University
Host: Tom Sharpton
A case for comparative research: Using primates to gain insight into the human gut microbiome
Winter Term 2021
January 20, 2021Maria Clara Franco (Maca)
Oregon State University
Host: Michael Freitag
The relevance of oxidatively-modified proteins as therapeutic tumor-directed targets
February 3, 2021Bruce Hungate
Northern Arizona University
Host: David Myrold
Frontiers in ecosystem science: microbial ecology to biogeochemistry
February 17, 2021Yuanchao Wang
Nanjing Agricultural University
Host: Brett Tyler
The story of XEG1: From a core effector to broad spectrum resistance
March 3, 2021Francesca Marassi
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Host: Elisar Barbar
Spring Term 2021
March 31, 2021Martin Egan
University of Arkansas
Host: Weihong Qiu
Forging the Rings of Power – Formation and remodeling of higher-order septin structures for plant invasion by the blast fungus
April 14, 2021Clare Bird
University of Stirling
Host: Jennifer Fehrenbacher
The microbiomes of single cells
April 28, 2021Zachary Lippman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Steven Strauss
Dissecting and exploiting mechanisms of quantitative trait variation in pl
May 12, 2021Xiangshu Xiao
Oregon Health & Science University
Host: Siva Kolluri
Cancer Drug Discovery Targeting Transcription and DNA Repair
May 26, 2021Peter Ralph
University of Oregon
Host: Aaron Liston

Data Science for the Public Good Symposium

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Keynote Speaker

Charisse Madlock-Brown
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Charisse Madlock-Brown is a faculty member in Health Informatics and Information Management at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She received her Master’s in Library Science and Ph.D. in Health Informatics from the University of Iowa. She has expertise in data management, data mining, and visualization. She has a broad background in health informatics, with a current focus on obesity trends and multimorbidity. Other areas of interest are network analysis and emerging topic detection in biomedicine. She has authored several book chapters and journal articles and continues to keep up-to-date on data integration, data architecture, database management, and analytic methods. She runs the UTHSC Research Pipelines labs, which provide online interfaces for distributed computing and storage systems. Her lab can manage projects from data extraction and transformation to modeling and visualization for small-scale and big data projects. 

Introductions from DSPG Leaders
1:00 PMIntroduction to the Oregon State University Date Science for the Public Good Project–Brett Tyler, Director, Center for Quantitative Life Sciences, Oregon State University
1:05 PMTri-state Data Science for the Public Good Project– Sallie Keller, Director, Social and Decision Analytics Division, University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute
1:10 PM Data Science Knowledge and Resources for Extension Professionals– Lindsey Shirley, Associate Provost, Oregon State University Outreach and Engagement
Keynote Speaker
1:15 PM Social determinants of health related to COVID-19: disparities between urban and rural communities– Charisse Madlock-Brown, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
1:45 PMBreak
Presentations
2:00 PMMeasuring Economic and Social Infrastructure: Intergenerational Poverty in Page County, VA
2:15 PMWintertime air quality health impacts in Oakridge and Westfir
2:30 PMMapping Iowa’s Substance Use Care Infrastructure
2:45 PMImpacts of dam water release policy on Deschutes River health and recreation
3:00 PMBarriers to Health Care Access and Use in Patrick County, VA
3:15 PMForecasting tools for cost analysis of water and wastewater facilities in Oregon small towns and cities
3:30 PMEconomic Mobility Baseline and Comparative Analysis for the South Wasco County School District Area, Oregon
3:45 PMRegulatory impacts on economic development in the Eastern Oregon border region
4:00 PMWater quality requirements for fresh produce growers

DSPG is a coalition of five public universities across three states: Oregon State University, Iowa State University, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, and Virginia State University.