September 20-21, 2009

Program

3:00 pmRegistration & poster setup 
4:00Welcome Reception
5:00Jim Carrington, CGRB DirectorAchievements of the Computational & Genome Biology Initiative
5:20Noah Fahlgren, MCB Graduate ProgramSmall RNA Transcriptome Profiling and Evolution
5:40Jason Cumbie, MCB Graduate ProgramComputational and Statistical Tools for Type III Effector Transcriptome Profiling
6:00Kristina Smith, Biochemistry & BiophysicsEvolution of Centromeres in Filamentous Fungi
6:25Steve Jacobsen, University of California, Los AngelesDNA Methylation
7:05-9:00Poster session; Sponsor displays
8:30 amCoffee and Pastries
9:00Chrissa Kioussi, College of PharmacyGoodies for the Tooth Fairy: Ctip2 and the Production of Enamel
9:25Adrian Gombart, Linus Pauling InstituteVitamin D and Human Innate Immunity
9:50Joseph Thornton, University of OregonEvolution of Protein Structure and Function in the Steroid Hormone Receptor Family 
10:55Pankaj Jaiswal, Botany & Plant PathologyOntologies for Plant Genomics and Phenomics
11:20Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes du CNRS, StrasbourgGenomics, Mechanisms and Roles of Small Silencing RNA
1:00Announcement of Poster Awards
1:10Roundtable Discussion – Issues Affecting Research, Funding & Education in Molecular Biosciences at OSUPanelists: Howard Grimes, Washington State University; Sonny Ramaswamy, Oregon State University; Steve Jacobsen, UCLA; Michael Lynch, Indiana University
3:05Michael Lynch, Indiana UniversityThe Origins of Genome Complexity
3:45William Cresko, University of OregonPopulation Genomic Analysis of Stickleback Evolution Using Illumina-Sequenced RAD tags

Saturday & Sunday, October 4-5, 2008

Program

12:00 pmRegistration & Poster setup
1:00Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB
Introduction, CGRB update
1:10 New Technologies in CGRBMark Dasenko, Chris Sullivan, Caprice Rosato, Anne-Marie Giirard – CGRB Core Labs
1:45Peter Dolan, Zoology, “TileQC: A System For Tile-Based Quality Control and Data Manipulation”
2:10Patrick Chappell, Zoology “Molecular Circadian Clock Regulation of Mammalian Reproduction”
2:35Brian Wall, Office of Technology Transfer “The OSU Venture Fund: Bridging the Research Support Gap”
3:30Erica Bakker, Horticulture “Genome-Wide Pathogenicity Gene Discovery in Botrytis cinerea”
3:55Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology “Whole-Genome Variation and its Impact on Reproductive Isolation in Arabidopsis thaliana”
4:45Poster Session, Sponsor’s Displays and Open Bar
7:45-11:00Entertainment, Announcement of Awards
 7:30 amContinental Breakfast
8:30Arup Indra, College of Pharmacy “CTIP – A Novel Regulator of Skin Organogenesis”
8:55Xiaoli Fern, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science “Ensemble and Multi-View Data Clustering”
9:20Steven Brenner, University of California, Berkeley “Ultraconserved Nonsense: Gene Regulation by Splicing and RNA Surveillance”
10:30Vincent Remcho, Chemistry “Materials and Methods for the Design, Fabrication, and Application of Microfluidic Tools for Chemical Analysis”
10:55Brendan Jeffery, MCB Graduate Program “Chlamydial Biology and Genomics”
11:20Thomas Wolpert, Botany and Plant Pathology “A Downside to Plant Disease Resistance, Good LOV Gone Bad”
11:45-1:00Lunch

Saturday-Sunday, September 29-30, 2007

Program

12:00 pmRegistration and Poster setup
1:00Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Welcome, Updates and Announcements
1:20Gary Merrill, Biochemistry and Biophysics “MCB Core Program Curriculum Revisions”
1:35Darryl Conte, University of Massachusetts Medical Center “Dicer-Related Helicases: Defining Conserved Complexes and New RNAi-Related Pathways in C. elegans”
2:10Tai Montgomery, MCB Graduate Program “ARGONAUTEs and Silencing Specificity”
3:05Siva Kullori, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology “Signaling from Nucleus to Mitochondria: Nuclear Receptor Nur77 Based Cancer Therapeutics”
3:30Michael Freitag, Biochemistry and Biophysics “Centromere Assembly and Maintenance”
3:55Shelley Halpain, University of California, San Diego “MAPs, MARCKS, and Morphology: A Few Keys to Neuronal Development”
5:00Poster Session, Sponsors’ Displays and Open Bar
6:45Dinner
8:00-12:00 Entertainment, Announcement of Awards
8:45 amJeff Chang, Botany and Plant Pathology “Functional Genomic Screen for Type III Effectors of Mutualistic Rhizobia”
9:10Martin Schuster, Microbiology “Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing”
9:35Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington “Manipulation and Dissection of Plant Growth Control Networks”
10:45Valerian Dolja, Botany and Plant Pathology “Origin of Viruses and Cells in Light of Comparative Genomics”
11:10Joe Beckman, Linus Pauling Institute “Mass Spectometry of Native Proteins from Brain: Understanding How SOD Causes ALS”
11:35Theresa Filtz, Pharmaceutical Sciences “Lipids, Dimers, Phosphates, Calcium and Lipase: Fine Tuning the Regulation of a Common Signaling Pathway”
12:00 pmLunch

Friday and Saturday, September 15-16, 2006

Program

12:00 pmRegistration & Poster setup
1:15Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB
Introduction, CGRB update
1:35Dee Denver, Assistant Professor, Zoology “Forces Shaping Genome Evolution”
2:00Todd 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”
3:15Roundtable Discussion – Computational Biology and CGBI Initiative Scott Givan, Lead Presenter
4:15Joe Ecker – Keynote Address, The Salk Institute “Discovery of Functional Elements in Arabidopsis Genome and Epigenome”
5:15Poster Session and Sponsors’ Displays
7:00Dinner
8:00-12:00Entertainment
 7:30-9:00 amContinental Breakfast
9:00Dan Rockey, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences “Genomics and Genetics of Chlamydia”
9:25Ian Paulsen – Keynote Address, TIGR “The Ins and Outs of Membrane Transport: A Genomic View”
10:35Announcement of Awards
10:40Sarah Sowell, Ph.D. Student, MCB Graduate Program “Can Proteomics Reveal the Metabolic States of Marine Micro-organisms in Situ (in the Ocean)?”
11:05Steve Strauss, Professor, Forest Sciencs “Gibberellic Acid Genes for Physiological Sculpture of Trees”
11:30Lunch
Post Retreat
1:10 pm2nd Annual CGRB Golf TournamentEagle Crest Challenge Course

2006 Fall Conference

Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, 2005

Program

12:00Registration & Poster setup
1:00Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB
Introduction, CGRB update
1:30Steve Giovannoni – Pernot Chair and Professor, Microbiology “Genome Streamlining in Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacteria”
1:55Larry Wilhelm, Ph.D. Student, Microbiology “Microbial Genome Divergence in Environmental Sequence Data Sets”
2:15Jim Carrington – Director, CGRB “Small RNA Pathways in Plants”
3:05John Cassady – Vice President for Research “The Research Enterprise at OSU”
3:25Luanne Lawrence – Vice President for University Advancement “Research: The Heart of University Advancement’s New Mission”
3:45Moderated Forum with John Cassady and Luanne Lawrence
4:15Steve Kay – Keynote Address, The Scripps Research Institute “Systems Approaches to Understanding Circadian Clocks”
5:00Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
7:30 – 8:45 amContinental Breakfast
8:45Wei Chen – Ph.D. Student, Zoology “A Silky Way to Divide: Relaxing the Poles While Stimulating the Equator by Microtubules” 
9:05Taifo Mahmud – Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences “Combinatorial Genetic and Synthetic Approaches to Novel Anti-Infective Drugs”
9:30Eugene Koonin – Keynote Address, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH “Universal Trends in Protein Evolution”
10:45Elisabeth Chapman – Ph.D. Student, MCB Program “RISC Management: Suppression of microRNA and Silencing Pathways by Viruses”
11:05Ling Jin – Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences “Studies on Human Herpes Simplex Type 1 Virus Latency Reactivation Induced by Apoptosis”
11:30Lunch
Post Retreat
1:001st 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

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

Friday, September 26-27, 2003

Program

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