Program | Institute for Genomic Biology

Program for Thursday, May 2, 2013

All events take place in the IGB Conference Center, unless noted.

8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Introduction - Gene Robinson
9:15 a.m.	Functional Genomics of Productivity Traits for C4 Bioenergy Grasses Stephen Moose, Energy Biosciences Institute
9:45 a.m.	*Bacterial Ferric Iron Reduction by a Fermentative Orenia* sp. (Strain 6634) Isolated from 2.02 KM Depth Cambrian-age Mt. Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin, USA** Yiran Dong, Biocomplexity
10:15 a.m.	BREAK
10:30 a.m.	Is There A Conserved Neurogenomic Response To Social Interactions? Clare Rittschof, Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental plasticity
11:00 a.m.	Keynote Speaker Michael Lynch Distinguished Professor of Biology Department of Biology Indiana University at Bloomington The Drift-Barrier Hypothesis and the Evolution of Subcellular Features
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	The Planarian Intestine: A Model for Stem Cell-driven Organ Regeneration Dave Forsthoefel, Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering
2:00 p.m.	High-performance Computing at IGB Victor Jongeneel, High-Performance Biological Computing
2:30 p.m.	Genotyping-by-sequencing for Association, Population Genetic, and Evolutionary studies Patrick Brown, Genomic Ecology of Global Change
3:00 p.m.	Concluding Remarks and Raffle
3:15 p.m.	Poster Session and Reception - Open to All (Atrium, Main Lab Building)