2024 Schedule

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 (*).

If you or a member of your organization are interested in presenting this year, please email Leslie Coonrod (coonrod@uoregon.edu).

Tentative schedule:

Day 1 – Wednesday, January 31st
1:00 PM  PST UCSC Genome Browser Workshop*
Day 2 – Thursday, February 1st
9:00 AM PST Registration/Coffee
Session 1 – Partner Talks*
Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus
9:30 AM PST Welcome
10:00 AM PST Chris Seidel – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Seeing the Genome
10:25 AM PST Erick LeBrun – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Solving Biological Challenges with Omics at Los Alamos National Lab
10:50 AM PST Break
11:10 AM PST Mehul Sharma – Allen Institute
Understanding Immune Variability: Lessons from Patients with Inborn Errors of Immunity
11:35 AM PST Melissa Hale – Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Inherited Muscle Research
From Data to Discovery: Bridging Clinical and Biological Findings in Muscular Dystrophy
Lunch
First floor, Knight Campus
12:00 PM PST Lunch
Session 2 – Partner Talks*
Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus
1:30 PM PST Julia Zeitlinger – Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Deep learning the sequence rules of signaling
1:55 PM PST Elisabeth Goldman – CEDAR, Oregon Health and Science University
Integrative approaches to cancer early detection
2:20 PM PST Karen Guillemin – University of Oregon
Interconnected genomes: animals and their microbiota
2:45 PM PST Break
3:10 PM PST Tayler Hebner – Knight Campus, University of Oregon
Translating molecular mapping to materials design for promoting regenerative tendon healing
3:35 PM PST Lisa Bramer – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
From Phenome to Genome: Domain-Informed Bayesian Predictive Models
Session 3 – Poster and networking session
Basement and first floor, Knight Campus
4:00 PM PST Program Partner, Current Student, and Alumni Poster Session
7:00 PM PST End of Day
Day 3 – Friday, February 2nd
9:00 AM PST Registration/Coffee
Session 4 – Partner Talks*
Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus
9:30 AM PST Welcome
10:00 AM PST Maria Izabel Cavassim Alves – Illumina
Illumina NGS-Based Protein Discovery
10:25 AM PST Noah Simons – Providence
Computational Immuno-Oncology at Providence Cancer Institute
10:50 AM PST Break
11:10 AM PST Emek Demir – Knight Center for Biomedical Data Science, Oregon Health and Science University
11:35 AM PST Nyasha Chambwe – Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health
Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Dissect Biological Determinants of Cancer Health Disparities
Lunch
First floor, Knight Campus
12:00 PM PST Lunch
Session 5 – Alumni*
Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus
1:30 PM PST Intro to Alumni Session
1:40 PM PST Anastasiya Prymolenna – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sharing Recipes for FAIR Data Science
2:05 PM PST Anthony Pulvino – Northwestern University
Of dead-ends and directive space
2:30 PM PST Jessica Salguero – Los Alamos National Laboratory
My Journey with Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics
2:55 PM PST Break
3:15 PM PST Alumni Panel for Prospective Students
Session 6 – Poster and networking session
Basement and first floor, Knight Campus
4:00 PM PST All Conference Poster Session and Reception
7:00 PM PST End of Day