Retreat Information
Agenda
8:30am: Breakfast buffet
8:45am-9:00am: Mind Meld Meeting between Faculty, Post Docs, and Students
9:00am-9:15am: Mind Meld Meeting between Faculty and Staff
9:25am: Program begins with greeting from Ivet
9:30am-12pm: Faculty talks (15 minutes for talk, followed by 5 minutes of Discussion)
- 9:30-9:50: John Vries- Assessment of Protein-Ligand Binding using Electron Density
- 9:50-10:10: Carlos Camacho- From chemical modulation of proteins to rearranging whole genome gene networks
- 10:10- 10:30: Bing Liu- Quantitative insights into cell death regulations
- 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
- 11:00- 11:20: Tim Lezon- Recapitulating phenotypic heterogeneity with mechanistic models
- 11:20-11:40: Zoltan Oltvai- Collective food search of bacterial ecosystems
- 11:40-12:00: Nathan Clark- Linking genes to phenotypes using convergent evolution
12pm-12:30pm: Lunch buffet or Lunch bags
12:30pm-1:30pm: Keynote Speaker Trey Ideker
1:30—2:30: Round tables
- Looking for Jobs in Academia- Anne, Robin
- Computational Systems Bio in the Health Care Space- Akif, Chakra
- Active Learning…No, Not That Active Learning: Teaching Strategies for Maximizing Student Engagement in the Classroom- Joe, Emily
- The Future of Multiscale Systems Bio: Jianhua, Maria, Mary, Bing
2:30-5pm: Museum free time with scavenger hunt
5:00-5:30pm: Scavenger hunt results in Outdoor Sculpture Court
5:30pm: Department Group Photo in Outdoor Sculpture Court
5:50pm-7pm: Cocktails and Posters, with self guided tour in “Dinosaurs in Their Time”
7pm: Dinner in North American Wildlife
8:15: Year in Review from Ivet
10:00pm: Retreat End
Talks
Posters
The poster session will be held from 5:50 pm to 7:00pm in the Foster Overlook (above the Dinosaurs). Please plan to hang your poster from 5:00-5:30pm. We suggest that your poster does not exceed 45"x 45", but please let us know of any questions.
Faculty will be voting for their favorite poster online. Click here to vote.
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Kunal Aggarwal
“Investigating Potential Mechanisms for Negative Regulation of T Cell Activation” -
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Amanda Kowalczyk
“Identifying Genes Associated with Longevity in Mammals using Patterns of Convergent Evolution” -
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Gabriel Kowalczyk
“A Tool for Quantitative Analysis of IKK in Single Cells” -
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Jiyoung Lee
“Molecular Basis for the Functionality of γ-Secretase Inferred from Structure-Based Modeling and Druggability Simulations” -
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Chaitanyasudhir Mokashi
“Cellular Responses to Dynamic Patterns of Cytokine Stimulation” -
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Luca Ponzoni
“Structural Dynamics is a Determinant of the Functional Significance of Missense Variants” (Authors: Luca Ponzoni, Ivet Bahar) -
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Jocelyn Sunseri
"Molecular Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks: Applications and Novel Architectures" -
8
Weikang Wang
“Morphology Dynamics Analysis of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) on Single Cell Trajectory” -
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Marta Wells
“Structure Determination of the a7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Intracellular Domain” -
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Jingyu Zhang
“Chromosome Re-organization Regulates Group Gene Expression in Cell Differentiation Process" -
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She Zhang
“Cell-to-Cell Heterogeneities at Genome Scale Investigated by the Gaussian Network Model”