September 20-21, 2009
| 3:00 pm | Registration & poster setup |
| 4:00 | Welcome Reception |
| 5:00 |
Jim Carrington, CGRB Director Achievements of the Computational & Genome Biology Initiative |
| 5:20 |
Noah Fahlgren, MCB Graduate Program Small RNA Transcriptome Profiling and Evolution |
| 5:40 |
Jason Cumbie, MCB Graduate Program Computational and Statistical Tools for Type III Effector Transcriptome Profiling |
| 6:00 |
Kristina Smith, Biochemistry & Biophysics Evolution of Centromeres in Filamentous Fungi |
| 6:25 |
Steve Jacobsen, University of California, Los Angeles DNA Methylation |
| 7:05-9:00 | Poster session; Sponsor displays |
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
| 9:00 |
Chrissa Kioussi, College of Pharmacy Goodies for the Tooth Fairy: Ctip2 and the Production of Enamel |
| 9:25 |
Adrian Gombart, Linus Pauling Institute Vitamin D and Human Innate Immunity |
| 9:50 |
Joseph Thornton, University of Oregon Evolution of Protein Structure and Function in the Steroid Hormone Receptor Family |
| 10:55 |
Pankaj Jaiswal, Botany & Plant Pathology Ontologies for Plant Genomics and Phenomics |
| 11:20 |
Olivier Voinnet, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Strasbourg Genomics, Mechanisms and Roles of Small Silencing RNA |
| 1:00 | Announcement of Poster Awards |
| 1:10 |
Roundtable Discussion - Issues Affecting Research, Funding & Education in Molecular Biosciences at OSU Panelists: Howard Grimes, Washington State University; Sonny Ramaswamy, Oregon State University; Steve Jacobsen, UCLA; Michael Lynch, Indiana University |
| 3:05 |
Michael Lynch, Indiana University The Origins of Genome Complexity |
| 3:45 |
William Cresko, University of Oregon Population Genomic Analysis of Stickleback Evolution Using Illumina-Sequenced RAD tags |
