Symposium Schedule

09:00 - 09:15am welcome and introduction to q-bio and GAUSSI

09:15 - 10:00am keynote: Gill Bejerano

10:00 - 10:20am break

10:20-12:00am session 1

• 10:20 - 10:40 Tai Montgomery Good gene, bad gene: piRNAs and RNA surveillance
• 10:40 - 11:00 Jay Hesselberth Genomics of RNA and DNA repair.
• 11:00 - 11:20 James Costello Transcriptional regulators associated with pathways: Setting a TRAP to identify gene drug targets
• 11:20 - 11:40 Joel Kralj Optical voltage imaging: brave new frontiers
• 11:40 - 12:00 Anushree Chatterjee

12:00 - 13:00 lunch (on your own)

13:00 - 14:00 posters

14:00 - 15:20 session 2

• 14:00 - 14:40 Careers outside of academia: panel with Larry Hunter and Tina Larson
• 14:40 - 15:00 John McKay Genetics of adaptation
• 15:00 - 15:20 Asa Ben-Hur Towards a plant splicing code

15:20 - 15:50 break / posters

15:50 - 16:35 Robin Dowell Finding buried treasure: improved methods for transcriptome data

16:35 - 16:45 closing

17:00 - 19:00 evening poster session (refreshments provided)