Friday and Saturday, September 15-16, 2006

Program

12:00 pm	Registration & Poster setup
1:15	Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update
1:35	Dee Denver, Assistant Professor, Zoology “Forces Shaping Genome Evolution”
2:00	Todd Mockler, Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology “Regulation of Diurnal Plant Gene Expression”
2:25	Barbara Robbertse, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Botany and Plant Pathology “A Phylogenomic Analysis of the Ascomycota”
3:15	Roundtable Discussion – Computational Biology and CGBI Initiative Scott Givan, Lead Presenter
4:15	Joe Ecker – Keynote Address, The Salk Institute “Discovery of Functional Elements in Arabidopsis Genome and Epigenome”
5:15	Poster Session and Sponsors’ Displays
7:00	Dinner
8:00-12:00	Entertainment
7:30-9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Dan Rockey, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences “Genomics and Genetics of Chlamydia”
9:25	Ian Paulsen – Keynote Address, TIGR “The Ins and Outs of Membrane Transport: A Genomic View”
10:35	Announcement of Awards
10:40	Sarah Sowell, Ph.D. Student, MCB Graduate Program “Can Proteomics Reveal the Metabolic States of Marine Micro-organisms in Situ (in the Ocean)?”
11:05	Steve Strauss, Professor, Forest Sciencs “Gibberellic Acid Genes for Physiological Sculpture of Trees”
11:30	Lunch
	Post Retreat
1:10 pm	2nd Annual CGRB Golf TournamentEagle Crest Challenge Course

2006 Fall Conference

Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, 2005

Program

12:00	Registration & Poster setup
1:00	Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update
1:30	Steve Giovannoni – Pernot Chair and Professor, Microbiology “Genome Streamlining in Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacteria”
1:55	Larry Wilhelm, Ph.D. Student, Microbiology “Microbial Genome Divergence in Environmental Sequence Data Sets”
2:15	Jim Carrington – Director, CGRB “Small RNA Pathways in Plants”
3:05	John Cassady – Vice President for Research “The Research Enterprise at OSU”
3:25	Luanne Lawrence – Vice President for University Advancement “Research: The Heart of University Advancement’s New Mission”
3:45	Moderated Forum with John Cassady and Luanne Lawrence
4:15	Steve Kay – Keynote Address, The Scripps Research Institute “Systems Approaches to Understanding Circadian Clocks”
5:00	Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
7:30 – 8:45 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45	Wei Chen – Ph.D. Student, Zoology “A Silky Way to Divide: Relaxing the Poles While Stimulating the Equator by Microtubules”
9:05	Taifo Mahmud – Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences “Combinatorial Genetic and Synthetic Approaches to Novel Anti-Infective Drugs”
9:30	Eugene Koonin – Keynote Address, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH “Universal Trends in Protein Evolution”
10:45	Elisabeth Chapman – Ph.D. Student, MCB Program “RISC Management: Suppression of microRNA and Silencing Pathways by Viruses”
11:05	Ling Jin – Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences “Studies on Human Herpes Simplex Type 1 Virus Latency Reactivation Induced by Apoptosis”
11:30	Lunch
	Post Retreat
1:00	1st CGRB Golf Tournament – Eagle Crest Ridge Course

Thank you to our conference committee:

David Maddison, Integrative Biology
Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences
Steven Strauss, Forest Ecosystems & Society

Friday & Saturday, September 24-25, 2004

Program

12:00	Registration
1:30	Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Introduction
1:45	Scott Givan, Bioinformatics Coordinator, “Computational Biology in the CGRB”
2:10	Barbara Cohen, Senior Editor, Public Library of Science (PLoS) “Open Access – The Future of Scientific Publishing”
2:35	Roundtable Discussion: Barbara Cohen, Anne Christie, Brian Staskawicz“Open Access, Publication and OSU”
3:45	Kevin Drost, Co-Director, Microproducts Breakthrough Institute and OSU Academic Director For ONAMI, “Overview of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnology Institute”
4:10	Brian Staskawicz, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology,“Molecular Basis of Plant Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis”
5:00	Poster Session
8:30	Entertainment
9:00 AM	Claudia Maier, Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry,“Mass Spectometry in Proteome Research”
9:20	Hiro Nonogaki, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Horticulture,“Enhancer Trap of Seed Germination-Associated Genes”
9:50	Stephen Mayfield, Guest Speaker, The Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Cell Biology, “Regulation of Chloroplast Gene Expression: What We’ve Learned on the Way to Making Human Antibodies in Eukaryotic Algae”
11:00	Luiz Bermudez, Professor & Interim Head, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, “Mechanisms of Interaction Between Mycobacteria and The Host”
11:25	Steve Giovannoni, Director, MCB Program, Open Forum “The Future of MCB: What’s Next?”
12:00	Working Lunch, Continuation of MCB Discussion
	Meeting Adjourns

Friday, September 26-27, 2003

Program

1:30	Registration
3:00	Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Introduction
3:35	Chrissa Kioussi, Biochemistry & Biophysics“Making of a Heart: Molecular Networks During Development”
4:00	Emily Ho, Nutrition & Food Management  “Zinc and the Gene: Nutrient-Gene Interactions in Maintaining DNA Integrity”
4:25	John Hays,  Env. & Molecular Toxicology  “Coupling DNA-Mismatch Recognition to Strand-Specific Excision in Human Nuclear Extracts”
5:15	Eric Selker, KEYNOTE ADDRESSU of O, Molecular Biology & Genetics“Genome Defense and Control of DNA Methylation in Neurospora”
6:15	Buffet Dinner and Poster Session
9:00	Party – music provided by the Tex Brooklyn Band
11:50	Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University Genome-scale Evolutionary Inference using Site Pattern Frequencies
12:35	Lunch (Poster and Sponsor setups / displays)
9:00 AM	Chris Bayne, Zoology“Mortal Danger: Effecting and Surviving Oxygen-Dependent Attack”
9:25	Robyn Tanguay, Env. & Molecular Toxicology“Tales of Regeneration and Dioxin Toxicity”
9:50	Monte Westerfield – KEYNOTE ADDRESSU of O, Neuroscience and Behavior “Genetic Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Cell Types”
11:00	Jaga Giebultowicz, Zoology“Link Between Nutritional Status and Fecundity: A Novel Role for Clock Genes in Drosophila”
11:25	Michael Gross, Biochemistry & Biophysics “Neuronal Patterning in the Dorsal Spinal Cord”
11:45	Poster Awards and Concluding Remarks
12:00	Lunch