Each day will be a mix of talks, networking times, and poster sessions. Sessions with remote options are noted with an asterisk (*).
2025 Schedule:
| Day 1 – Wednesday, January 29th | |
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| 1:00 PM PST | UCSC Genome Browser Workshop* |
| Day 2 – Thursday, January 30th | |
| 9:00 AM PST | Registration/Coffee |
| Session 1 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
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| 9:30 AM PST | Welcome |
| 10:00 AM PST | Andy Berglund – The RNA Institute, University at Albany Splicing dysregulation across repeat expansion diseases |
| 10:35 AM PST | Break |
| 10:55 AM PST | Jennifer Gerton – Stowers Institute for Medical Research Genomic requirements for making the germline |
| 11:30 AM PST | David Degnan – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory A Bayesian Informed Framework for Predictive Phenomics |
| Lunch First floor, Knight Campus |
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| 12:05 PM PST | Lunch |
| Session 2 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
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| 1:30 PM PST | Venkatesh Rajamanickam – Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute Computational Immuno-Oncology at Providence |
| 2:05 PM PST | Lucas Graybuck – Allen Institute for Immunology Large-scale datasets and resources from the Allen Institute for Immunology |
| 2:40 PM PST | Break |
| 3:00 PM PST | Aishwarya Gogate – Allen Institute Automating Immunology: From Raw Data to Insight |
| 3:35 PM PST | Nowlan Freese – UNC Charlotte Integrated Genome Browser |
| Session 3 – Poster and networking session Basement and first floor, Knight Campus |
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| 4:10 PM PST | Poster Session |
| 7:00 PM PST | End of Day |
| Day 3 – Friday, January 31st | |
| 9:00 AM PST | Registration/Coffee |
| Session 4 – Partner Talks* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
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| 9:30 AM PST | Welcome |
| 10:00 AM PST | Dante Ricci – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Designing biology to transform drug discovery |
| 10:35 AM PST | Peter Baumann – Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Are all lizards created equal? |
| 11:10 AM PST | Break |
| 11:30 AM PST | Allison Creason – Oregon Health & Science University CBDS – Attacking cancer with big data |
| Lunch First floor, Knight Campus |
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| 12:05 PM PST | Lunch |
| Session 5 – Alumni* Beetham Family Seminar Room, Knight Campus |
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| 1:30 PM PST | Intro to Alumni Session |
| 1:40 PM PST | Sasha Golubeva – Illumina Building Reliable Bioinformatics Pipelines Through Comprehensive Unit Testing |
| 2:05 PM PST | Christian La France – Allen Institute for Immunology Interactive Visualizations for Big Biological Data |
| 2:30 PM PST | Cameron Watson – Oregon Health & Science University Lowering the barrier to entry for image analysis in cancer research |
| 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 |
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| 4:00 PM PST | All Conference Poster Session and Reception |
| 7:00 PM PST | End of Day |