Schedule

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Fall 2023 Center for Computational Biology Retreat Schedule

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Friday Evening, Nov 3

4:00 – 6:00 PMCheck-in – Welcoming Center
6:00 – 7:15 PMDinner – Dining Hall
7:20 – 7:30 PMWelcome & Opening Remarks – Performance Hall
7:30 – 9:00 PMDEI Panel: Science and Society – Performance Hall
Presenters: Vivienne Muller (UC Davis), Dr. Christopher Gee (Common Humanity Collective), Dr. Sarah Yang (Curve Bio), Christian Tate (Counter Culture Labs), Sophia Reyes (UCSC HSI Initiatives), Ab (People’s Programs), Yemi (People’s Programs)
9:00 – 10:30 PMSocial Activities – Performance Hall / Nagel Room

Saturday, Nov 4

7:30 – 9:00 AMBreakfast – Dining Hall
9:05 – 9:15 AMOpening Remarks – Performance Hall
9:15 – 9:30 AMKsenia Krasileva – Assistant Professor, PMB: Genomics for immunity: how organisms with innate immunity recognize pathogens
9:30 – 9:45 AMChandler Sutherland – PMB (Lab: Krasileva): High intraspecies allelic diversity in Arabidopsis immune receptors is associated with distinct genomic and epigenomic features
9:45 – 10:00 AMNeo Yin – Statistics (Lab: Charmichael): CLeukoLocator: A Comprehensive Leukocyte Detection Pipeline for Peripheral Blood Whole Slide Images
10:00 – 10:15 AMPooja Kathail – Center for Computational Biology (Lab: Ioannidis/Ye (UCSF)): Characterizing uncertainty in predictions of genomic sequence-to-activity models
10:15 – 10:30 AMWilliam Torous – Statistics (Lab: Purdom): Visualizing scRNA-Seq Data at Population Scale with GloScope
10:30 – 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 – 11:15 AMKennedy Agwamba – IB (Lab: Nachman): On the demographic history of the Western European house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus
11:15 – 11:30 AMElise Kerdoncuff – MCB (Lab: Moorjani): Reconstructing 50,000 years of evolutionary history in India: Insights from 3,000 whole genome sequences

11:30 – 12:30 PM

Keynote Speaker – Dr. Benedict Paten, Associate Professor and Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute: The Pangenome and you: how the future of the genomic reference is personal – Performance Hall

12:30 – 1:30 PM

Lunch/Roundtable meetings with sponsors – Dining Hall

1:30 – 4:00 PM

Free time 
4:15 – 4:30 PMMichal Rozenwald – Center for Computational Biology (Lab: Urnov & Streets):  Deciphering human gene control via epigenome editing and machine learning at a single-molecule resolution
4:30 – 4:45 PMHelen Sakharova – Bionengineering (Lab: Lareau): Rules for synonymous codon choice: When do suboptimal codons matter?
4:45 – 5:00 PMMilind Jagota – Computer Science (Lab: Song): Learning antibody sequence constraints from allelic inclusion
5:10 – 6:00 PM

CompBio Student Meeting – Nagel Room  
Faculty Meeting – Amber Room (next to Performance Hall)

6:00 – 6:30 PMPoster set-up – Performance Hall
6:00 – 7:20 PMDinner – Dining Hall
7:30 – 9:30 PMPoster Session and Reception – Performance Hall
9:00 – 10:30 PMSocial activities – Performance Hall / Nagel Room

Sunday, Nov 5

7:30 – 9:00 AMBreakfast – Dining Hall
9:05 – 9:15 AMOpening Remarks – Performance Hall
9:15 – 10:15 AMKeynote Speaker – Dr. Bronwyn Lucas, Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Biology & Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley: Visualizing macromolecules in cells with cryo-EM – Performance Hall
10:15 – 10:45 AMCoffee Break
10:45 – 11:00 AM

Maya Lemmon-Kishi – Center for Computational Biology (Lab: Nielsen): ratePlacer: An Efficient Molecular Dating Method for Ancient eDNA Samples

11:00 – 11:15 AM

Graham Northrup – Center for Computational Biology (Lab: Boot): Spatial Effects on Host Parasite Coevolution

11:15 – 11:30 AM

Ruchir Rastogi – EECS (Lab: Ioannidis): Comparative analysis of single-cell epigenomic and transcriptional response to six vaccines

11:30 – 12:30 PMAlumni Panel – Performance Hall
Presenters: Aaron Stern (Staff Applied Scientist at Afresh), Rob Tunney (Research Scientist at 23andMe)
Moderated by: Sarah Johnson, John Lo
12:30 – 1:45 PMLunch – Dining Hall
1:45 – 2:00 PMAwards and Closing Remarks – Dining Hall
2:30 PMCharter Bus Departure – Entry Court