2020 Schedule

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