Deep Genomics Symposium, April 3-5
04/03/2014
The University of Arizona IGERT Program in Genomics is sponsoring an international meeting on deep genomics: www.genomics.arizona.edu/meeting.html.
PROGRAM
| Thursday, April 3 | |
| 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Registration Table - West Foyer, Marriott Hotel |
| 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Opening Reception with hors d'oeuvres and cash bar - Pima Room, Marriott Hotel |
| 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Poster Session - Pima Room, Marriott Hotel |
| Friday, April 4 | Day 1: Pima/Sabino Room, Marriott Hotel |
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m. | Michael Sanderson, IGERT Program Director |
| Introduction | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Kenneth Wolfe - University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Keynote Address: Origin and evolution of a reversible DNA rearrangement mechanism: yeast mating-type switching | |
| 9:50 a.m. | Patrick Degnan - University of Illinois |
| Investigating genome evolution and dynamics of human gut microbes | |
| 10:25 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | William Cresko - University of Oregon |
| Very rapid stickleback evolution is underlain by deep genomics architecture | |
| 11:35 a.m. | Joseph Thornton - University of Chicago |
| Ancient evolution of a novel transcription factor | |
| 12:10 p.m. | Lunch - on your own |
| 1:30 p.m. | Laura Landweber - Princeton University |
| RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance and massive genome rearrangement in the ciliate Oxytricha | |
| 2:05 p.m. | Junhyong Kim - University of Pennsylvania |
| Cellular ecology of the individual | |
| 2:40 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Veronica Hinman - Carnegie Mellon University |
| The evolution of gene regulatory networks for a neural specification and patterning | |
| 3:50 p.m. | Michael Nodine - Gregor Mendel Institute |
| MicroRNA functions in Arabidopsis embryos | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Banquet Dinner |
| 7:30 p.m. | Michael Nachman - University of California, Berkeley |
| Saturday, April 5 | Day 2: Pima/Sabino Room, Marriott Hotel |
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Shin-Han Shiu - Michigan State University |
| Predicting biological phenomenon with machine learning | |
| 9:35 a.m. | Dannie Durand - Carnegie Mellon University |
| How old is my gene? Estimating gene age by fitting gene trees to species trees | |
| 10:10 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Travis Wheeler - HHMI Janelia Farm |
| Sensitive and fast remote homology search with profile HMMs in HMMER | |
| 11:20 a.m. | Miklós Csűrös - Université de Montréal |
| Copy number evolution on a phylogeny | |
| 11:55 a.m. | Lunch - on your own |
| 1:00 p.m. | Erin Kelleher – University of Houston |
| Genomic parasites and genome defense: the impact of adaptively evolving piRNA proteins on the regulation of transposable elements | |
| 1:35 p.m. | Li-Jun Ma – University of Massachusetts |
| Genomic dynamics and organism adaptation | |
| 2:10 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Robert Reed – Cornell University |
| Regulatory architecture of adaptive radiation | |
| 3:20 p.m. | Robert Beiko – Dalhousie University |
| Grand Theft Operon: Lateral City | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Conference Concludes |