Grad Oral Presentations - Bio/Agr/Env Life Sciences: Genetics

Thursday, October 27, 2011: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
Room A7 (San Jose Convention Center)

Description: Selected graduate students present their scientific research to their peers, mentor-judges, and other conference participants in a unique forum for professional growth.



6:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
6:35 PM
Discovering Copy Number Variants Associated With Autism In Hispanic Families
Keolu Fox , Graduate Student , University of Washington ; Evan Eichler, PhD , Professor/ Primary Investigator , University of Washington ; Santhosh Girirajan, PhD, MBBS , Postdoc , University of Washington
6:50 PM
Polymorphisms in Chromatin Accessibility State During D.melanogaster Embryogenesis
Aaron Hardin, BS , Graduate Student , University of California, Berkeley ; Xiao-Yong Li, PhD , Research Specialist , California Institute of Quantitative Biology, University of California, Berkeley ; Michael Eisen, PhD , Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley
7:05 PM
Network Paradigm for Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Metabolic Pathways
Kevin Keys, BS/BA , Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Brandon Invergo, MS , Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Giovanni Dall'Olio, MS , Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Ludovica Montanucci, PhD , Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Hafid Laayouni, PhD , Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Jaume Bertranpetit, PhD , Universitat Pompeu Fabra
7:20 PM
TASeR: A bioinformatic pipeline for Telomere Analysis from Sequence Reads
Nick Stong , PhD Candidate , University of Pennsylvania ; Ramana Davuluri, PhD , Associate Professor , Wistar Institute ; Harold Riethman, PhD , Associate Professor , Wistar Institute
7:35 PM
Gaussian Kernel Estimation of Mutual Information in the Max-Min Parents and Children (MMPC) Algorithm for Extrapolating Gene Networks
Yogesh Saletore, BS , Tri-I Program in Computational Biology, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ; Jason Mezey, PhD , Assistant Professor , Weill Cornell Medical College