Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 5 minutes for questions. Each day will be a mix of talks, networking times, and poster sessions. Sessions with remote options are noted with an asterisk (*).
Tentative schedule:
| Day 1 – Wednesday, January 25th | |
|---|---|
| 1:00 PM PST | UCSC Genome Browser Workshop (KC 156/157) |
| 4:00 PM PST | End of Workshop |
| Day 2 – Thursday, January 26th | |
| 9:00 AM PST | Registration/Coffee and Pastries |
| Session 1 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
|
| 9:15 AM PST |
Patrick Phillips – Interim President, University of Oregon
Opening Remarks
|
| 9:30 AM PST |
Leslie Coonrod – Acting Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics Track, University of Oregon
Welcome
|
| 9:35 AM PST | Angel Morrow – Absci |
| 10:00 AM PST |
Ron Yu – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Odor, Memory, and Intelligent Machine: intersecting data and brain sciences
|
| 10:25 AM PST |
Paul Fields – Tempus
Empowering oncology drug development programs using real-world multimodal data
|
| 10:50 AM PST | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 AM PST |
Mark-Phillip Pebworth – Allen Institute of Immunology
What is truth? Advancing scATAC-seq towards therapeutic target discovery
|
| 11:35 AM PST |
Soheil Meshinchi – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Novel biomarkers discovery and therapeutic development in pediatric AML
|
| Lunch 2nd Floor Terrace, Knight Campus |
|
| 12:00 PM PST | Lunch – UO Catering Indian Buffet |
| Session 2 – Alumni* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
|
| 1:30 PM PST | Intro to Alumni Session |
| 1:40 PM PST |
Dana Alegre – HPC Life Sciences at Lenovo
Solutions architect at Lenovo – how did I get here?
|
| 2:05 PM PST |
David Degnan – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The ‘Zombie’ Tool Apocalypse: Preventing Bioinformatic Technology from becoming Obsolete Quickly
|
| 2:30 PM PST |
Sally Grindstaff, Thomas Persse, and Christina Zakarian – Salish Bioscience
Development of a fit-for-purpose pipeline for the detection and annotation of low-frequency circulating tumor DNA
|
| 2:55 PM PST | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 PM PST | Alumni Panel for Prospective Students |
| Session 3 – Poster and Networking Session Basement and First Floor, Knight Campus |
|
| 4:15 PM PST | Poster Session for Program Partners, Current Students, and Alumni |
| 6:00 PM PST | End of Day |
| Day 3 – Friday, January 27th | |
| 9:00 AM PST | Registration/Coffee and Pastries |
| Session 4 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
|
| 9:15 AM PST |
Leslie Coonrod – Acting Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics Track, University of Oregon
Welcome Day 2
|
| 9:30 AM PST |
Julia Zeitlinger – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Using interpretable deep learning to decipher the genome’s second code
|
| 9:55 AM PST |
Lisa Bramer – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Inconceivable! Unveiling the Power of Statistics in Mass Spectrometry Analysis
|
| 10:20 AM PST |
Blake Hovde – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Solving Biological Challenges with Genomics and Proteomics at Los Alamos National Lab
|
| 10:45 AM PST | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM PST |
Melissa Hale – Virginia Commonwealth University
Translational Approaches to the Treatment of Genetic Muscular Dystrophies
|
| 11:25 AM PST |
Erick Matsen – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Replaying germinal center evolution on a surveyed affinity landscape
|
| Lunch 2nd Floor Terrace, Knight Campus |
|
| 11:50 AM PST | Lunch – UO Catering Gyro Buffet |
| Session 5 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
|
| 1:20 PM PST |
Lucia Carbone – Oregon Health and Science University
The KCVI Epigenetics consortium: enabling epigenetics research at OHSU and beyond
|
| 1:45 PM PST |
Anupriya Agarwal – CEDAR, Oregon Health and Science University
Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of leukemia evolution
|
| 2:10 PM PST |
Jeremy Goecks – Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Data Engineering and Data Science for Multimodal Precision Oncology
|
| 2:35 PM PST |
Andrew Emili – Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
Integrative Systems Biology for Drug Discovery
|
| 3:00 PM PST | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 PM PST |
Kausik Si – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Protein multifunctionality and biological diversity
|
| 3:40 PM PST |
Courosh Mehanian – Knight Campus, University of Oregon
Introduction to the Mehanian Lab
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| Session 6 – Poster and Networking Session Basement and First Floor, Knight Campus |
|
| 4:05 PM PST | All Conference Poster Session and Reception |
| 6:00 PM PST | End of Day |