September 19-20, 2010

Program

3:00 pm Registration & poster setup 
4:00 Welcome Reception
5:00

Jim Carrington, CGRB Director

Moderator: Lynda Ciuffetti
5:10
Christopher Sulliivan, CGRB 
“Recent Advances within the CGRB Computational Infrastructure”
5:20

Mark Leid, Pharmaceutical Sciences

“Ctip2/Bcl11b: A Top-Level Regulator of Cell Fate in Multiple Developmental Systems”
5:45

Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology

“Chemical and Physical Signals and their Interactions in Plant Stem Cell Control”
6:30-9:00 Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
8:30 am Coffee and Pastries
9:00 Joseph Spatafora, Botany & Plant Pathology
“Tolypocladium inflatum: A Home Grown Genome”
9:25 Pallavi Phatale, Botany & Plant Pathology
“Genetic Studies to Uncover Rules for Centromere Inheritance” 
9:50

Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School

"Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System”
11:00

P. Andrew Karplus, Biochemistry and Biophysics

“A Beneficial Bulge: TT-Helices and the Evolution of Proteins”
11:25

Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research

“OSU Research Now, Next, and After Next”
1:15 Award Presentation
1:20

Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School

“Phylogenetic Profiling of the Small RNA Pathway Genes of C. elegans”
2:05

Doug Bryant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  “Next-Generation Hybrid Empirical-ab initio Gene Prediction”
2:30
Daniel Schafer, Statistics
“Some Lessons from the Biometry of Evolution and the Evolution of Biometry”
3:30
Gene D.Kundson Lectures featuring Peter & Rosemary Grant, Princeton University
“Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: The Roles of Genetics, Ecology and Behavior”
5:00  Kundson Lectures Reception