3rd Annual Young Investigator Symposium on Genomics & Bioinformatics
 
Thursday, Sept. 24
  
 
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  
 
Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB
  

This symposium focuses on investigators in their first years of research at Johns Hopkins, and fosters collaboration among the biologists and computationally-oriented researchers in the diverse areas of genomics and bioinformatics.

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Featuring Keynote Speaker
John Quackenbush
of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
and the Harvard School of Public Health

 

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Agenda
   
9:15 a.m. Breakfast (provided)
   
9:45-10:30 a.m. David Valle, Professor and Director, Institute of Genetic Medicine
“Individualized Medicine -- Challenges and Opportunities”
   
10:30-11 a.m. Martin Aryee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center &
JHSPH Department of Biostatistics
“Analyzing Whole Genome DNA Methylation Data”
   
11-11:20 a.m. Break
   
11:20-11:50 a.m. Svitlana Tyekucheva, Postdoctoral Fellow, JHU Department of Oncology Biostatistics
“Multiplatform Approach To Gene Sets Enrichment Analysis”
   
11:50a.m.-12:20p.m. Seth Blackshaw, Assistant Professor, JHU Department of Neuroscience
“Global Analysis of the Human Protein-DNA Interactome Identifies MAPK1
as a Transcriptional Repressor of Interferon Signaling”
   
12:20-1 p.m. Lunch (provided)
   
1-1:30 p.m. Christine Ladd-Acosta, Ph.D. candidate, JHU Cellular & Molecular
Medicine Program
“The Genomic Landscape of DNA Methylation Across Human Tissues and
Colon Cancer”
   
1:30-2 p.m. Hector Corrada Bravo, Postdoctoral Fellow, JHSPH Department of Biostatistics
“Model-based Quality Assessment and Basecalling of Second-Generation Sequencing Data”
   
2-2:20 p.m. Break
   
2:20-2:50p.m. Jeff Leek, Assistant Professor, JHSPH Department of Biostatistics
“Statistical Reproducibility in Clinical Genomics”
   
2:50-3 p.m. Talk wrap-up
   
3-4 p.m. John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the
Harvard School of Public Health
“Network and State Space Models: Science and Science Fiction
Approaches to Cell Fate Predictions”
   
4-5 p.m. Poster Session with Beer, Wine & Cheese - Greenhouse Cafe


Email to submit a poster.