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Program

 

Sunday, September 18 (4pm-9pm)            Events are held in the Cascade Ballroom, unless specified otherwise

4:00 - 5:00pm Welcome Reception

5:00 - 5:10   Dan Arp, Interim Director CGRB

5:10 - 5:35   Brett Tyler, Incoming Director, CGRB
                    "Integrating Experimentation and Computation in the Life Sciences at OSU: Role
                     of the CGRB"

5:35 - 5:45   Mark Dasenko, CGRB Core Labs
                    "High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Updates in the CGRB Core Labs"

5:45 - 6:30   Eugene Koonin, Guest Keynote Speaker, NCBI/NLM/NIH
                    "The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution"

6:30 - 9:00   Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
Monday, September 19 (9am-5pm)            Events are held in the Cascade Ballroom, unless specified otherwise

8:30am Coffee and Pastries, Ballroom 110 A&B

9:00 - 9:25      Aaron Liston, Botany & Plant Pathology
                       "Evolutionary Genomics of Fragaria Species: Insights into the Origin of the
                        Cultivated Strawberry"

9:25 - 10:10     Chris Marx, Guest Speaker, Harvard University
                         "Experimental Evolution of Specialized Metabolism Subsequent to an
                          Engineered Horizontal Gene Transfer"

10:10 - 10:35   Cameron Thrash, Microbiology
                         "Phylogenomic Evidence for a Common Ancestor of SAR11 and Mitochondria"

10:35 - 11:00   Break

11:00 - 11:25   Michael Raboin, Molecular & Cellular Biology
                        "Competition Between Caenorhabditis briggsae Natural Isolates in the Presence
                         and Absence of Microsporidian Intracellular Parasites"

11:25 - 11:50   Taifo Mahmud, Pharmaceutical Sciences
                        "Genome Mining and Biosynthetic Engineering of Bioactive Natural Products"

11:50 - 1:00 pm   Lunch

1:00 - 1:05   Announcement of Poster Awards

1:05 - 1:50   Christina Cuomo, Guest Speaker, Broad Institute
                    "Genome Evolution of Fungal Pathogens"

1:50 - 2:15   Yanming Di, Statistics
                    "Regression Analysis of RNA-Seq Data"

2:15 - 3:00   Charles Criscione, Guest Speaker, Texas A & M University
                    "Transmission and Determinants of Inbreeding in Metazoan Parasites: Insights from
                     Genetic Data"

3:00 - 3:30   Break

3:30 - 5:00   Richard "Ed" Green, Guest Public Lecture Speaker, US Santa Cruz
                    "Recent Human Evolution as Revealed by Ancient Hominin Genomes"