girarda « Center for Quantitative Life Sciences

Oregon State University

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