Sessions will be composed of 3-4 talks, 25 minutes each with time for questions. There will be a total of 3 sessions, followed by a poster session. Individuals interested in being considered for a poster presentation should submit an abstract with their registration.
Tentative schedule:
| Registration and Opening Remarks (Ford Alumni Center – Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | BGMP Staff | University of Oregon | Registration and coffee/refreshments |
| 8:30 AM | Jim Hutchison | University of Oregon | Opening remarks |
| 8:45 AM | Leslie Coonrod | University of Oregon | Bioinformatics and Genomics Masters Program overview/Welcome |
| Session 1 (Ford Alumni Center – Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom) | |||
| 9:00 AM | Scott Hawley | Stowers Institute for Biomedical Research | Molecular Biology of Meiosis |
| 9:30 AM | Ken-ichi Noma | University of Oregon | Tidying Up the 3D Genome |
| 10:00 AM | Aivett Bilbao Pena | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Opportunities in Developing Software for Mass Spectrometry |
| 10:30 AM | Benjamin Bimber | Oregon Health & Science University | Single-cell RNA-seq Identifies Broadly Cross-reactive Vaccine-induced CD8 T-cells |
| 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 2 – BGMP Alumni Perspectives (Ford Alumni Center – Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom) | |||
| 11:30 AM | Angela Banks | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research | Applying bioinformatics to identify treatments for blinding diseases |
| 12:00 PM | Nate Olowo | Thermo Fisher Scientific | My Journey to Becoming a Bioinformatician |
| 12:30 PM | Alex Ostrovsky | The Galaxy Project, Johns Hopkins University | The Bioinformatician’s Overflowing Toolbox |
| Lunch | 1:00 PM | ||
| Session 3 (Ford Alumni Center – Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom) | |||
| 2:00 PM | Paul Fields | Adaptive Biotechnologies | Immune Repertoire Sequencing for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment |
| 2:30 PM | Brian Piening | Providence Health and Services | Integrative multi-omics in the clinic and beyond |
| 3:00 PM | Yipeng Wang | MiNDERA Corporation | Forging the Era of Digital Predictive Skin Analytics |
| 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | Blake Hovde | Los Alamos National Lab | Genomics in Bioenergy and Biosecurity at Los Alamos National Lab |
| 4:30 PM | Mike O’Grady | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Machine Learning and Assay Development: Making it Work Across Instrument Platforms |
| 5:00 PM | Nathan Dunn | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Genome annotation with open source software: Apollo, JBrowse and GO in Galaxy |
| 5:30 PM | Closing remarks | ||
| Session 4 – Poster Session (Ford Alumni Center – Susie & Randy Papé Hearth Foyer) | |||
| 5:45 PM | Poster Session and Reception | ||
| 7:00 PM | Meeting End | ||