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8th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat Agenda - Friday, April 17, 2015
Speaker Topics
8:00 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
8:30 a.m.
Welcome
Elizabeth Winzeler
8:45 a.m.
5th Year Graduate Student
Jonathan Grinstein
The Transcriptional Landscape of Cardiac Development
9:00 a.m.
Faculty
Yishi Jin
Unraveling Genetic Pathways Underlying Synapse Formation
9:30 a.m.
5th Year Graduate Student
Christopher DeBoever
9:45 a.m.
5th Year Graduate Student
Lauren Fong
10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:15 a.m.
Faculty
Pamela Mellon
Headed for the Hypothalamus: Journey of the GnRH Neuron
10:45 a.m.
KEYNOTE
Stephen Quake
Single Cell Genomics
11:45 a.m.
Lunch / Poster Session Open
12:45 p.m.
Faculty
Chris Glass
Exploiting Natural Genetic Variation to Understand Gene
Expression
1:15 p.m.
5th Year Graduate Student
Jaqueline Benthuysen
Regulation of Pancreatic Beta Cell Aging and Proliferation
1:30 p.m.
Faculty
Maike Sander
Epigenetic Control of Cellular Plasticity in Endodermal Organ
Development
2:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
2:15 p.m.
Faculty
Al La Spada
2:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE
David Botstein
3:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Bruce Hamilton
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Reception / Poster Session Open
Event Ends
Cryptic 3’ Splicing Proximal to the Branch Point in SF3B1Mutated Cancers
Examining Non-Cell-Autonomy in Alzheimer’s Disease Using
Human iPSC-Derived Astrocytes and Neurons
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Yeast, Evolution and Cancer
Please Note: Food & Beverage are not allowed in the Auditorium