2024 qCMB Symposium Schedule
Time
Activity
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration, Poster Set up and Coffee
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Session 1
9:00 – 10:15 AM, Tutorial Talk: Philip Nelson (University of Pennsylvania) Scientific Animation with Python
10:15 – 10:30 AM, Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:05 AM, Keynote Talk: Giulia Palermo (UC Riverside), Dynamics and mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas9 through the lens of computational methods
11:05 – 11:20 AM, Sponsor Talk: Travis Sanders (Watchmaker Genomics), Advanced Enzyme Engineering for Improved Single Enzymes and NGS Library Prep
11:20 – 11:35 AM, Contributed Talk: Evan Brenner (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Predicting pathogen hosts with interpretable machine learning
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM, Lightning Talks Session 1 (3.5 minutes each)
Callie Slaughter (CSU)
Alex Alon (CSU)
Eric Ron (CSU)
Rosi Danzman/Sebastian Lawson (CSU)
Melody Hayman (CSU)
Adam Powley (University of Pittsburgh)
12:00 – 12:30 PM, Lunch Break
12:30 – 2:00 PM, Poster Session 1
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Session 2
2:00 – 2:35 PM, Invited Talk: Ning Zhao (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Expanding tagging toolbox for visualizing translation live
2:35 – 2:50 PM, Sponsor Talk: Ivy Brown (Avantor)
2:50 – 3:05 PM, Contributed Talk: Casey Tyler Berezin (CSU), DNA Identification Numbers to Track and Verify Plasmids
3:05 – 3:40 PM, Invited Talk: Janani Ravi (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), A bug’s life: a data integration view of microbial genotypes, phenotypes, and diseases
3:40 – 3:55 PM, Contributed Talk: Carlos Juarez (CSU), Regulation of Tomato Fruit Cell Expansion by the Phytohormone System
3:55 – 4:10 PM, Contributed Talk: Nam Tran (Drexel University), Sensitivity of Synthetic Feedback Circuits to Variations in Biochemical Parameters
4:10 – 4:30 PM, Break/Snacks
4:30 – 6:00 PM, Poster Session 2
6:00 PM, Tear Down Posters
Time
Activity
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Coffee, Breakfast, Conversation, Collaboration
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Munsky’s Last Stand: Brian Munsky (CSU)
9:20 AM – 9:35 AM
9:35 AM – 9:50 AM
Contributed Talk: Kewalin Samart (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Leveraging transcriptomic disease- and drug signatures towards identifying novel host-directed therapeutics for tuberculosis
Contributed Talk: Kaz Knight (CSU), Investigating activity-dependent mitochondrial dynamics in excitatory neurons
9:50 AM – 10:25 AM
Invited Talk: Kaan Öcal (University of Melbourne), Modeling global mRNA-protein dynamics in cells
10:25 AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion: How to improve collaborations between Quantitative Biologists, Statisticians, and Experimentalists
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
Final Remarks and Wrap Up
5:00 PM
Farewell Celebration and Awards Ceremony, outdoor Volleyball court, southeast side of CSU Rec center