{"id":352,"date":"2017-04-07T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cgrb\/?p=352"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:53:55","slug":"spring-conference-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/2017\/04\/07\/spring-conference-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Conference 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday, April 7, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Award Winners:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lightning Talk: Zachary Foster<\/strong>,  “Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data”<\/em>
Poster: Khiem Lam<\/strong>,  “Exploring the Microbiome of Cervical Cancer through Transkingdom Networks”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
8:00<\/td>Registration & refreshments (Poster & lightning talk slides setup) <\/td><\/tr>
9:00<\/td>Brett Tyler<\/strong>, Director, CGRB
  Opening Remarks<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
9:10<\/td>Ian Mu\u00f1oz<\/strong>, Assistant Computational Scientist, CGRB
Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Batch Processing<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
9:25<\/td>Lightning talks<\/strong>Moderator: Stephen Ramsey, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences and School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
10:35<\/td>Break (Poster setup)<\/td><\/tr>
11:00<\/td>Brent Kronmiller<\/strong>, Bioinformatics Analyst, CGRB
Draft Genome of the North American Beaver (<\/em>Castor canadensis)<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
11:25<\/td>Reidun Twarock<\/strong>, Departments of Mathematics and Biology University of York, England
Solving a Viral Enigma: Discovery of a hidden code in RNA viral genomes provides a new perspective on viral evolution and anti-viral therapy<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
12:15<\/td>Lunch and Poster Session (Posters & Lightning Talk slides judged) 
Poster & lightning talk ballot envelopes will be picked up for counting right after lunch<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>  Moderator: Duo Jiang, Assistant Professor, Statistics<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
1:20<\/td>Katherine McLaughlin<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Statistics 
Accessing Hidden Populations at High Risk for HIV\/AIDS Using Respondent-Driven Sampling<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
1:45<\/td>Afua Nyarko<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Molecular basis for regulation of the Yorkie transcription co-activator<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2:10<\/td>Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Statistics
Union-of-Intersection (UoI) methods for Data-driven Discovery and Prediction<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
2:35<\/td>Break<\/td><\/tr>
3:00<\/td>Molly Megraw<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology 
Using Machine Learning Models to Determine the Principles Behind Tissue-Specific Gene Expression<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
3:25<\/td>Benjamin Dalziel<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Mathematics
Cities as natural experiments in bacterial metacommunity dynamics<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
3:50<\/td>Awards Ceremony, Brett Tyler<\/td><\/tr>
4:00<\/td>Reinhard Laubenbacher<\/strong>, Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health
Iron metabolism and its role in breast cancer<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
4:50<\/td>David Hendrix<\/strong>, Biochemistry & Biophysics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Closing remarks<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, April 7, 2017 Conference Award Winners: Lightning Talk: Zachary Foster,  “Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data”Poster: Khiem Lam,  “Exploring the Microbiome of Cervical Cancer through Transkingdom Networks” Program 8:00 Registration & refreshments (Poster & lightning talk slides setup)  9:00 Brett Tyler, Director, CGRB  Opening Remarks 9:10 Ian Mu\u00f1oz, Assistant… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cqls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}