IGSB 3rd Annual Retreat
Date
September 12, 2010, 2:15 pm–3:30 pm
Location
Marina Grand Resort
New Buffalo, MI
Description
View the Retreat Schedule [PDF]
Schedule
| Sunday, September 12 | ||
| 2:15pm Opening Remarks: Kevin White / Graveney Room | ||
| Session I Chair: Kevin White / Graveney Room | ||
| 2:30pm | Michael Rust Mechanism of Oscillation and Entrainment of a Three-Protein Circadian Clock |
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| 2:45pm | Bob Grossman Everything you always wanted to know about Bionimbus but were afraid to ask |
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| 3:00pm | Nicolas Negre A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome |
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| 3:15pm | Rebecca Spokony Genome wide ecdysone receptor binding sites through Drosophila melangoster development |
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| 3:30pm | Lijia Ma The co-localization of 30 transcription factors and their effects on gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster |
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| 3:45pm | Xiaochun Ni Adaptive evolution of the genome-wide binding of an insulator protein |
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| 6:30pm Reception / Dinner / Rooftop Deck | ||
| Monday, September 13 | ||
| 8:45-9:45am / Breakfast / Brentwood Tavern | ||
| Session II Chair: Bob Grossman / Graveney Room | ||
| 9:45am | Sarah O’Brien Controls on soil carbon cycling in restored grasslands |
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| 10:00am | Jennifer Brulc Metagenomic assessment of microbial community reestablishment following gastrointestinal tract resection |
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| 10:15am | Dave Blair A network-oriented approach to mapping expression quantitative trait nucleotides |
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| 10:30am | Shi Yu Integrating genomic data sources in biomedical knowledge discovery; a kernel based approach |
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| 10:45am | Anna Divoli Considering alternative views when modeling cancer metastasis |
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| 11:00am | Break | |
| Session III Chair: Richard Jones / Graveney Room | ||
| 11:30am | Xiaoyue Wang Systematic Functional Characterization of Cooperative Mutations in Cancer |
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| 11:45am | Ruby Dhar Genome wide RNAi screening to elucidate estrogen signaling in breast cancer |
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| 12:00pm | Jie Zhou Bayesian Modeling of Nuclear Receptor Transcriptional Regulatory Network in MCF-7 cell |
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| 12:15pm | Yuwen Liu Transcriptional regulatory network in prostate cancer cell line |
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| 12:30pm | David Vanderweele The relationship among multifocal prostate cancer lesions |
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| 12:45pm Lunch / Ashby Room 2 | ||
| Monday, September 13 | ||
| Session IV Chair: Dion Antonopoulos / Graveney Room | ||
| 1:45pm | Subhradip Karmaker SPOP, Kidney cancer and human ENCODE project: Updates from White Lab |
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| 2:00pm | Megan McNerney Identification of Genetic variants in acute myeloid leukemia subtypes |
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| 2:15pm | Mark Ciaccio Correlating Cell Physiological Output with Phosphorylation Kinetics of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Cancer Models tissue |
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| 2:30pm | Casey Brown Genetic identification, replication, and functional fine mapping of expression quantitative trait loci in primary human liver |
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| 2:45pm | Ron Hause Genetic variation in transcription factor protein levels |
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| 3:00pm | Retreat Ends | |
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