Fall 2025 Center for Computational Biology Retreat Schedule
Friday Evening, October 24
| Time | Event |
| 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Check-in – Welcoming Center |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Poster set up - Performance Hall & Nagel Meeting Room |
| 6:00 - 7:15 PM | Dinner - Dining Hall |
| 7:20- 7:30 PM |
Welcome & Opening Remarks - Performance Hall |
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7:30 - 8:00 PM |
Poster Pitch Presentations I - Performance Hall |
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8:00 - 9:00 PM |
Poster Session I & Reception - Performance Hall |
| 9:00 - 10:30 PM | Social activities |
Saturday, Oct 25th
| Time | Event |
| 7:30 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast – Dining Hall |
| 9:05 – 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks - Performance Hall |
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Session 1: 9:15 – 9:30 AM |
Sarah Johnson (Moorjani Lab):Reconstructing Denisovan Ancestry |
| 9:30 – 9:45 AM |
Maya Lemmon-Kishi (Nielsen lab): Decoding Time: A Phylogenetic Framework for Molecular Dating of Sedimentary Ancient DNA |
| 9:45 – 10:00 AM |
Yulin Zhang (Moorjani Lab): Identifying footprints of archaic admixture in modern humans |
| 10:00 – 10:15 AM |
Kaiyuan Li (Nielsen Lab):Morphology Evolution on Phylogenetic Trees with Local MCMC Algorithm |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
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Session 2: 10:30 - 10:45 AM |
Yu-Jen (Jennifer ) Lin (Brenner Lab):Diagnostic Analsyis of Rare Transcriptomes (DART): Matching whole transcriptome states to prioritze genenetic variants that cause disease |
| 10:45 – 11:00 AM |
Kristina Garske (Ayroles Lab): Rural-to-urban transitions and the genetics of non-communicable disease risk |
| 11:00 – 11:15 AM |
Shuyi Yang (Marshall Lab):Spatial Close-Kin Mark-Recapture Methods to Estimate Dispersal Parameters and Barrier Strength for Mosquitoes |
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11:15 – 11:30 AM |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 – 12:30 PM |
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Adriana Briscoe, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine - Performance Hall: The genetic origin of sexually dimorphic ultraviolet color vision in Heliconius butterflies |
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12:30 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch - Dining Hall |
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1:30 - 3:45 PM |
Free time |
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Session 3: 4:00 – 4:15 PM |
Chengzhong Ye (Song Lab):Predicting functional constraints across evolutionary timescales with phylogeny-informed genomic language models |
| 4:15 – 4:30 PM |
Junhao (Bear) Xiong (Listgarten, Song Labs):ProteinGuide: On-the-fly property guidance for protein sequence generative models |
| 4:30 – 4:45 PM |
Claire LeBlanc (Staller Lab):Interpretable biophysical neural networks of transcriptional activation domains separate roles of protein abundance and coactivator binding |
| 4:45 - 5:00 PM |
Xinyi Yang (Titov Lab): Data Driven Simulations and Experiments to Study Glucose Metabolism |
| 5:00 – 5:15 PM |
Coffee Break |
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Session 4: 5:15 – 5:30 PM |
Samvardhini Sridharan (Sudmant Lab): Rapid turnover and recurrent structural variation at the 17q21.31 locus in humans and non-human primates |
| 5:30 – 5:45 PM |
Scott Ferguson (Sudmant Lab): T2T primate genomes reveal 60 million years of structural variation and karyotype evolution |
| 5:45 – 6:00 PM | Johnathan Lo (Sudmant & Boots Labs): Catostomid genomics |
| 6:00 - 6:30 PM |
CompBio Student Meeting - Nagle Meeting Room |
| 6:30 - 7:20 PM | Dinner - Dining Hall |
| 7:30 - 8:00 PM | Poster Pitch Presentations - Performance Hall |
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM | Poster Session II & Reception - Performance Hall |
| 9:00 - 10:30 PM | Social activities |
Sunday, Oct 27th
| Time | Event |
| 7:30 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast – Dining Hall |
| 9:15 – 10:45 AM | DEI Session - Performance Hall |
| 10:45 – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 PM |
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Leah Guthrie Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley - Performance Hall: A Quantitative Map of the Human–Microbe Metabolome |
| 12:00 - 12:10 PM |
Awards and Closing Remarks - Dining Hall |
| 12:10 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch - Dining Hall |
| 1:30 PM |
Check - out & Departure |