2008 Genomic Sciences Program Annual Retreat

Monday, June 9th, 2008
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

   9:00-9:30   Continental breakfast, Room 313

   9:30-9:35  Welcome remarks - David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP

                    (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics,

                    Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)

  9:35-10:20  Keynote Speaker: Timothy J. Donohue, Ph.D. (Professor,

                     Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

                     Plugging Plant and Microbial Genomes into the Energy Grid

10:25-10:40  Thomas F. Pyle, Jr., MBA (Chairman, The Pyle Group)

10:40-11:35  Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309

11:35-11:55   Jennifer L. Reed, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of

                      Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison), Getting from

                      Genotypes to Phenotypes through Network Reconstruction &

                      Modeling

  12:00-1:00   Lunch, Pyle Center

    1:00-1:20   Jon A. Wolff, Ph.D. (Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medical

                      Genetics, UW-Madison), Dynamic PolyConjugates: A Modular,

                      Synthetic System for in Vivo Delivery of siRNA

    1:25-1:45   David A. Mead, Ph.D. (Lucigen Corp., Middleton WI), Mining

                      Thermophilic Metagenomes for Polymerases and Cellulases

    1:50-2:10   Karl W. Broman, PhD (Associate Professor, Departments of

                      Biostatistics and Medicial Informatics, and Genetics,

                      UW-Madison), Mapping Multiple QTL in Experimental Crosses

    2:15-2:30   Break

    2:30-2:50   Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor,

                      Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison), Polydispersity in Self-

                      Assembling Polymeric Systems

    2:55-3:15   Ryan J. Kershner, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of

                      Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison), Top Down Meets Bottom

                      Up: Controlled Placement of DNA Nanostructures

   3:20-4:30   Poster session, Room 309

PAST RETREATS

View photos from the 2007 Genomic Sciences Program Retreat.

Friday, June 8th, 2007
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

   9:00-9:30   Continental breakfast

   9:30-9:40   Welcome remarks - David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP

                      (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics,

                      Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)

  9:45-10:40  Keynote Speaker: T. Conrad Gilliam, Ph.D. (Marjorie I. and

                      Bernard A. Mitchell Professor and Chair, Department of 

                      HumanGenetics, University of Chicago)

                      Genetic-linkage Mapping of Complex Hereditary Disorders to a
                      Whole-genome Molecular-interaction Network

10:45-11:30   Poster session

11:30-11:55   Ahna Skop, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Genetics,

                       UW-Madison), Using Proteomics and Comparative Genomics to

                       Understand Cytokinesis

  11:55-1:00   Lunch, Pyle Center

    1:00-1:25    Franco Cerrina, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Electrical and

                       Computer Engineering, UW-Madison), Synthesis of Long DNA

                        from Microarray Oligomers

    1:30-1:55    John Markley, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biochemistry,

                       UW-Madison), Metabolomics at Madison

    2:00-2:15    Break

   2:15-2:40    George Craciun, Ph.D. ( Assistant Professor, Department of

                       Mathematics, UW-Madison) Mathematical and Computational

                       Methods for Understanding Dynamical Properties of Biochemical

                       Interaction Networks

   2:45-3:10    Colin Dewey, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Departments of

                       Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Computer Sciences,

                       UW-Madison), Correlation of Evolutionary Constraint and Biological

                       Function in the Human Genome: A Report from the ENCODE

                       Project

   3:15-3:40    Adel Talaat, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathobiological

                       Sciences, UW-Madison), A Decade of Genomic Research on

                       Mycobacterium tuberculosis: What Have We Learned So Far?

   3:45-4:30     Poster session

2006 Genomic Sciences Program Annual Retreat

Monday, May 22nd, 2006
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Schedule for the 2006 Retreat

2005 Genomic Sciences Program Annual Retreat

Wed., June 15th, 2005
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast, Room 313

9:30          Welcome remarks, David C. Schwartz, Ph.D.

                 Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program

                 (Professor, Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry, UW-Madison)

9:45         Geoff Dyyk, M.D., Ph.D. (TPG Ventures; Chair, External
                 Advisory Board, The Molecular Sciences Inst.)

                Translating Translational Research

10:30       Poster session

11:15       Cameron Currie , Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bacteriology,

                UW-Madison  

                Symbiosis, Coevolution, and Genomics: Ancient Agriculture in Ants

11:50       Lunch

1:00 p.m. Julie Mitchell., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Depts. of Mathematics and

                Biochemistry, UW-Madison)

                Mathematical Approaches to Molecular Biology

1:25         Eric Shusta, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical and

                Biological Engineering, UW-Madison)

                Genomic Comparison of in Vivo and in Vitro Blood-Brain

                Barrier Models

1:50         Audrey Gasch, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Genetics; Genome

                Center of Wisconsin, UW-Madison)

                Regulation of stress-dependent Genomic Expression Programs

                in Yeast

2:10         Break

2:25         Josh Coon, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry,

                UW-Madison)

                Protein Sequence Analysis with Mass Spectrometry:New Technology,

                the Histone Code, and Comparative Analysis of Phosphorylation

2:50        Sridhara Dasu (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, UW-Madison)

               Computing in High Energy Physics and Its Relevance forOther Sciences

3:10         Poster session

4:30         End of session

2004 Genomic Sciences Program Annual Retreat

Monday, June 21, 2004
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:30          Welcome remarks, David C. Schwartz, Ph.D.

                 Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program

                 (Professor, Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry, UW-Madison)

9:45         Roger Brent, Ph.D. President, The Molecular Sciences Institute,

                Berkeley, CA

                The Alpha Project and the Dream of a Predictive Biology

10:30       Poster session

11:15       Mark Craven, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Depts. of Biostatistics

                and Medical Informatics, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison  

                Machine Learning Applied to Uncovering Bacterial Gene Regulation

11:45       Lunch

1:00 p.m. George N. Phillips, Jr., Ph.D. (Professor, Depts. of Biochemistry and

                Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)

                Structural Genomics at UW-Madison and Beyond

1:45         Nicole Perna, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Animal Health

                and Biomedical Sciences; Genome Center of Wisconsin)

                What Can Comparative Genomics Tell Us about Soft-rot,
                Diarrhea and the Plague?

2:15         Break

2:30         C. David Page, Jr., Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Departments of 

                Biostatistics and  Medical Informatics, and Computer Sciences,

                UW-Madison)

                Using Data Mining to Gain Clues into Multiple Myeloma

3:00         Poster session

4:30         End of session