Schedule

Fall 2022 Center for Computational Biology Retreat Schedule

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Friday Evening, Nov 4

4:00 – 6:00 PMCheck-in – Welcoming Center
6:00 – 7:20 PMDinner – Dining Hall
7:30 – 7:45 PMWelcome & Opening Remarks – Performance Hall
7:45 – 8:45 PMKeynote Speaker – Dr. Ami Bhatt (Stanford University)Performance Hall
8:45 – 10:30 PMReception & Social – Performance Hall

Saturday, Nov 5

8:00 – 9:20 AMBreakfast – Dining Hall
9:30 – 9:45 AMOpening Remarks – Performance Hall
Regular Talks
9:45 – 10:00 AMAidan McLoughlin (Huang Lab): Shared Differential Expression-Based Distance Reflects Global Cell Type Relationships in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data
10:00 – 10:15Hunter Nisonoff (Listgarten Lab): Augmenting Neural Networks with Priors on Function Values
10:15 – 10:30Connor Bybee (Sommer Lab): Coupled Oscillatory Neural Networks
10:30 – 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PMKeynote Speaker – Dr. Ashley Wolf (UCB) – Performance Hall
12:00 – 1:20 PMLunch – Dining Hall
Lightning Talks

1:30 – 1:38

Yu-Jen (Jennifer) Lin (Brenner Lab): Is expression or splicing more important in an RNA-seq study?

1:38 – 1:46

Carlos Albors (Song Lab): SLC Transporter Variant Effect Prediction

1:46 – 1:54

Juan Vazquez (Sudmant Lab): Building a Model System for Studying the Evolution of Extraordinary Longevity in Bats Using Functional Pangenomics
Regular Talks
1:55 – 2:10Laurits Skov (Moorjani Lab): Reconstructing the history of archaic introgression in modern humans: Insights from whole genome sequences of worldwide populations
2:10 – 2:25Sebastian Prillo (Song Lab):  CherryML: Scalable Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Phylogenetic Models
2:25 – 2:40

Joana Rocha (Sudmant Lab): A Pan-pangenome captures the full spectrum of genetic variation and ancient trans-species structural polymorphism in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos

2:40 – 5:00 PMFree time
5:00 – 6:00 PMCompBio Student Meeting (Meeting Room A, Nagel Hall) 
Faculty Meeting (Meeting Room B, Nagel Hall)
6:00 – 7:20 PMDinner – Dining Hall
7:30 – 9:00 PMPoster Session and Reception – Performance Hall
9:00 – 10:30 PMSocial activities

Sunday, Nov 6

8:00 – 9:20 AMBreakfast – Dining Hall
9:30 – 9:40 AMOpening Remarks – Performance Hall
9:40 – 10:30 AMDEI Panel – Dr. Rebecca Tarvin, Emma Steigerwald, Dr. 
Dione Rossiter, and Dhruv Patel-Tupper  – Performance Hall
Lightning Talks
10:30 – 10:38

Junhao (Bear) Xiong (Listgarten/Song Lab): Modeling antibody-antigen interactions: a structural modeling perspective

10:38 – 10:46

Maya Lemmon-Kishi (Nielsen Lab): A Penalized Likelihood Approach for Estimating Haplotypes from Environmental DNA

10:46 – 10:54

Stacy Li (Sudmant Lab): High-throughput haplotype and de novo mutation inference using linked-read sequencing

Regular Talks
10:55 – 11:10Philippe Boileau (Dudoit Lab): uniCATE: Flexible Predictive Biomarker Discovery
11:10 – 11:25Carmelle Catamura (Lareau Lab): Poison Exon Engineering Strategies
11:25 – 11:45 AMCoffee Break

11:45 – 12:00

Boyan Xu (Krasileva Lab):  Structure-aware repeat annotation of protein solenoid domains

12:00 – 12:15

Isabel Serrano (Sudmant Lab): Mitochondrial haplotype and mito-nuclear matching drive somatic mutation and selection through aging

12:15 – 12:30

Ryan Chung (Ioannidis Lab): Tissue-specific impacts of aging and genetics on gene expression patterns in humans

12:30 – 12:45

Diana Aguilar (Nielsen Lab): Understanding strawberry poison frog color polymorphism in Bocas del Toro

12:45 – 2:00 PMLunch – Dining Hall
2:00- 2:15 PMAwards and Closing Remarks – Dining Hall
2:30 PMCharter Bus Arrival – Entry Court