Monday June 12: [LSC Grand Ballroom]

Voted /judged speakers are indicated *

8-9:30 am                   Poster Set up and Coffee

9:00-10:15am           Invited Tutorial, Dr. Andrew Mugler (University of Pittsburgh)  Theoretical Modeling for Cell Size Dynamics

10:15am                    Break

10:30 – 10:45           *Luis Aguilera (Colorado State University) – Accelerating Single-Molecule Gene Expression Studies through the Utilization of Machine Learning, Simulations, and Microscope Automation.

10:45 – 11:15            Dr. Tatsuya Morisaki (Colorado State University) –  Visualization and quantification of translation from single mRNAs in living cells

11:15 – 11:30            *Kaitlyn Ramesh (Northeastern University)- Inferring the dynamics of cell state transitions from time-series gene expression data

11:30 – 12:00           *Lightning Talks (2.5 min each) –

Raymond, Mahari, Davidson, Kuster, Maldonado, Ron, Gorman, Stewart

12:00-2:00pm         *Poster Session 1 and LUNCH – posters manned from 12:30-2:00pm

2:00 – 2:30              Dr. Megan McClean (University of Wisconsin Madison) – Single-cell measurement and control of transcription factors to unravel yeast gene expression and phenotypic heterogeneity

2:30 – 2:45               *Jason Zeng (Boston University)- Batch Automated Cell Morphological Analysis

2:45 – 3:15                Dr. Daniel Reker (Duke University) – Molecular Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, Delivery, and the Microbiome

3:15 – 3:30               *Parsa Ghadermazi (Colorado State University) – Microbial Interactions from a New Perspective: Reinforcement Learning Reveals New Insights into Microbiome Evolution

3:40 – 4:25pm          Keynote Talk, Thomas Yankeelov, University of Texas at Austin – Mathematical modeling for practical, patient-specific digital twins

4:25 – 4:35pm         *Lightning Talks 2 – Xiu, Nieciecki,  Danzman, You

4:35-7:00pm            Poster Session 2 and DINNER (cash bar) – posters manned from 5:15-6:45pm

7:00pm                     Poster Tear Down

 

Tuesday June 13: [LSC Grand Ballroom]

8-9:15am                      Coffee, Breakfast, Conversation, Collaboration

09:15 – 09:45             Olivia Rissland (UC Anschutz Medical Campus) –  Monsters, Strange Creatures, and Other Curiosities of RNA Biology

09:45 – 10:00             *Kristen Schneider (CU-Boulder) – Dynamically querying biobank-scale genomes to rapidly identify genetically matched cohorts

10:00 – 10:30             Dr. Pablo Iglesias (Johns Hopkins University) – The threshold of excitable systems governs wave behavior and cellular morphology

10:30 – 10:45            *Kristin Fluke (Colorado State University) – The extensive and dynamic m5C-epitranscriptome of Thermococcus kodakarensis is generated by a suite of RNA methyltransferases that supports life in the extremes

11:00-12:00                Panel Discussion, Future of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Biological and Biomedical Education and Practice

• Asa Ben Hur  (Colorado State University) – Chair
  Arjun Krishnan (CU-Anschutz)
  Mayla Boguslav (Colorado State University)
  Zach Fox (Oak Ridge National Lab)

5:00PM  Farewell BBQ and Awards – Biology Patio