2009 Biology Retreat Schedule of Events

 

Sunday, September 20, 2009 (Day 1)

1:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Conference Check-in

1:00 pm

Welcome

1:10 pm to 1:35 pm (Faculty Session)

Scott Rifkin:“When time and chance happen to worms:  partial penetrance and noisy gene expression in C. elegans”
1:35 pm to 2:00 pm

Raffi Aroian: "Bacterial pathogens and nematode parasites”

2:00 pm to 2:25 pm Jing Wang: “The rules of innate odor preference in Drosophila" 

2:25 pm to 2:45 pm

Break

2:45 pm to 3:10 pm Luciano Matzkin: “Matzkin: Ecological genetics of adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila”
3:10 pm to 3:35 pm Jeff Long: “Which way is up? Embryonic polarity in Arabidopsis”
3:35 pm to 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm to 4:20 pm (Postdoc Session)

Kurt Marek: “Molecular mechanism integrating genetic and calcium-dependent neurotransmitter specification”
4:20 pm to 4:40 pm Dennis Otero: “Diverse roles for STAT1 and Type I interferon in T-cell selection and activation”
4:40 pm to 5:00 pm Pascale Charest: “A Ras Signaling Complex that controls directed cell movement”
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm Break
5:15 pm to 5:35 pm Uromi Goodale: “Ecophysiological indices of plant stress across the ranges of dominant species in coastal sage and chaparral ecosystems”
5:35 pm to 5:55 pm Jennifer Lin: "Identification and characterization of murine mammary stem cells during embryogenesis"

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Room Registration

6:30 pm to 7:45 pm

Dinner

7:45 pm to 8:00 pm

Dean’s Remarks

8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Keynote Speaker: Fred “Rusty” Gage "Adult Neurogenesis and Neural Stem Cells"

9:00 pm

Social Time

Monday, September, 21, 2009 (Day 2)

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Breakfast

8:30 am to 8:55 am (Faculty Session)

Anirvan Ghosh: “Wiring the brain: synaptic speed-dating to find a partner”
8:55 am to 9:20 am Debbie Yelon: “Regulation of organ dimensions: Establishing the size and shape of the zebrafish heart”
9:20 am to 9:40 am Break
9:40 am to 10:05 am Julian Schroeder: “Early atmospheric CO2 Sensing and Drought-induced Abscisic Acid Signaling Mechanisms in Plants”
10:05 am to 10:30 am Yang Xu: "Pluripotent stem cells: A new paradigm for studying human diseases”
10:30 am to 10:55 am Jim Umen: "Reinventing a tumor suppressor pathway"

11:00 am to 11:15 am (Student Session)

Long Do: “The Booleome Database:  An Informatics Tool for Integrating and Comparing Medical and Biological Data”    

11:15 am to 11:30 am Jenni Durieux: “The Electron Transport Chain and its Tissue-specific Regulation of Longevity in C. elegans”
11:30 am to 11:45 am Tatiana Hurtado de Mendoza: “Biological Role of the Antiapoptotic Protein Lifeguard in the Brain”
11:45 am to 12:00 pm Nolan Campbell:“Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Regulate Neuronal Maturation Following Adult Neurogenesis”                 

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Free Time

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Poster Session

4:00 pm to 4:25 pm (Faculty Session)

Jens Lykke-Andersen: “The regulation of human mRNA turnover and translation”
4:25 pm to 4:50 pm Dong-Er Zhang: “A ubiquitin like modifier ISG15 and its protease UBP43 in the innate immune responses”                                
4:50 pm to 5:15 pm Pam Reinagel: "The biology of visual cognition in rats"
5:15 pm to 5:30 pm Break
5:30 pm to 5:55 pm Satchidananda Panda: "Genetic and genomics analysis of the mammalian circadian clock"
5:55 pm to 6:20 pm Elsa Cleland: “Potential non-linear ecosystem responses to environmental change"

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Dinner

7:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Graduate Student Invited Speaker

8:00 pm to 8:45 pm

Graduate Student/TA/Post doc/Faculty Awards
8:45 pm to 9:45 pm "Biology Idol: Division has talent"

9:45 pm to 10:30 pm

Student Skits

10:30 pm to 12:00 am Party/Karaoke Contest

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 (Day 3)

7:30 am to 9:00 am

Breakfast/Closing Remarks

10:00 am

Round Table for Students: Graduate School and Science Career Information

By 12:00 pm

Room Checkout