September 20-21, 2009

Program

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

Saturday & Sunday, October 4-5, 2008

Program

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

Saturday-Sunday, September 29-30, 2007

Program

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

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