The GGB Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium takes place each year during the fall quarter. Our GGB Graduate Student Association organizes and executes the day with presentations from third year continuing GGB students and postdoctoral fellows. Also, there is a poster session open to undergraduate and GGB graduate students. This is a great opportunity to display the breath of research and accomplishments of our students. The symposium also serves as a welcome to our new students.
The 2023 Annual Research Symposium will take place on November 15, 2024 in the Genomics Auditorium.
Symposium Agenda
Date: November 15, 2024
| Time | Activity |
| 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks Speaker: Dr. Thomas Girke - Director |
| 8:20 AM - 8:35 AM | Oral Talk: Methylation Differences Based on Biological Medium Speaker: Ryan Bruellman Faculty Advisors: Bennett Lab/Reynolds Lab |
| 8:40 AM - 8:55 AM | Oral Talk: Epigenetic Regulation and Immune Control in Fibroblasts During Toxoplasma gondii Infection Speaker: Todd Lenz Faculty Advisor: Le Roch Lab |
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Oral Talk: Tracking a Transposable Element Burst in Rice RIL Populations Speaker: Nathan Mathieu Faculty Advisors: Dr. Susuan Wessler / Dr. Jason Stajich Lab |
| 9:20 AM - 9:25 AM | Flash Talk: Heterozygote advantage does not explain the maintenance of a genetic polymorphism for muscle mass during long-term selection for voluntary exercise behavior Speaker: Lucas Pineiro Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ted Garland |
| 9:25 AM - 9:40 AM | Oral Talk: What makes wounds become chronic? Speaker: Parnian Jabbari Faculty Advisor: Dr. Martins-Green Lab |
| 9:45 AM - 9:50 AM | Flash Talk: Population genetics study of Rhizopus Speaker: Sadikshya Sharma Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason Stajich |
| 9:50 AM - 9:55 AM | Extra Time |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM |
Oral Talk: Gene prediction using machine learning and epigenetic features in Plasmodium falciparum |
| 10:20 AM - 10:25 AM | Flash Talk: Deciphering Crossing Over Mechanisms in Eukaryotes Using a Wheat Model Speaker: Ethan Eurmsirilerd Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhenyu Jia |
| 10:25 AM - 10:40 AM | Faculty Talk: The RNA world of cellular quiescence Speaker: Dr. Jernej Murn |
| 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM | Extra Time |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Faculty Talk: Genetic analysis and breeding of cowpea with multiple resistance Speaker: Dr. Bao Lam Huynh |
| 11:20 AM - 11:25 AM | Flash Talk: snRNA expression pipeline Speaker: Rendell Chang Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhenyu Jia |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Oral Talk: predicting NMD Speaker: Shiyuan Chen Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sika Zheng |
| 11:50 AM - 11:55 AM | Extra Time |
| 12:00 PM - 12:55 PM | Keynote: Core Regulators and Divergent Cell States in Plant Development and Stress Responses Speaker: Dr. Sunil Kenchanmane Raju |
| 1:00 PM - 1:55 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Oral Talk: The mating type evolution in Rhodotorula Speaker: Cheng-Hung Tsai Faculty Advisor: Jason Stajich |
| 2:20 PM - 2:25 PM | Flash Talk: The Mystery within; Understanding Promoter adaption in Microtus Y chromosomes Speaker: MaryGracy Antony Faculty Advisor: Dr. Polly Campbell |
| 2:25 PM - 2:40 PM | Oral Talk: Deciphering FoxA-Controlled Chromatin Remodeling Mechanisms in Female Reproduction of Aedes aegypti: A Multi-Omics Approach Speaker: Xuesong Wang Faculty Advisors: Dr. Zhenyu Jia / Raikhel |
| 2:45 PM - 2:55 PM | Extra Time |
| 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM |
Poster: Immune, RNA, and Neurocognitive Genetic Networks in Bipolar Disorder Subtypes: A Transcriptomic Meta-Analysis |
| Poster: Cytokine Correlations of IL1RN in HIV-associated Neurocognitive Impairment Speaker: Tyler Jang Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcus Kaul |
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| Poster: ASHIC2: Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of diploid Hi-C contacts and 3D structures Speaker: Jinli Zhang Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wenxiu Ma |
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| Poster:
Senesence Quantification by Senesence Seeker Speaker: Alex Navarro Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Bachant |
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| Poster:
Alternations in Epitranscriptomic Reader/Writer/Eraser Proteins Accompanied with Resistance to Vemurafenib in Melanoma Cells Speaker: Shiyuan Guo Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yinsheng Wang |
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| Activity: Survey to vote for best of each presentation type should be released around this time. | |
| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Closing Remarks Dr. Zhenyu Jia - Graduate Advisor for Continuing Students |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Dinner |