Please join us at the first annual joint CAGEF – GBB symposium!
Lunch and coffee breaks are included and take place in the lobby of Koffler House (just outside the auditorium). Online registration has closed. We will be doing in-person registration at the symposium!
Date
April 29, 2024 – 10 AM to 4 PM.
Registration starts in the Koffler House lobby at 9am.
Location
Koffler House auditorium, room 108
569 Spadina Crescent, Toronto, ON, M5S 2J7
Agenda
| 9:00 – 10:00 AM | Registration in Koffler House Lobby |
| 10:00 – 10:05 AM | David Guttman, PhD (CAGEF) | Welcome and Opening remarks |
| 10:05 – 10:35 AM | Pauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Introduction to CAGEF |
| 10:35 – 10:45 AM | Belinda Chang, PhD (CSB / EEB) | Introduction to GBB |
| 10:45 – 11:15 AM | Maxwell Shafer, PhD (CSB) | Decoding the genomics and evolution of sleep |
| 11:15 – 11:20 AM | Cassandre Pyne (Stephen Wright lab, EEB) | GBB student lightning talk |
| 11:20 – 11:40 AM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Koffler House Lobby |
| 11:40 – 12:10 PM | Coby Viner (Michael Hoffman lab, CompSci) | DNA modifications & transcription factor motif elucidations |
| 12:10 – 12:15 PM | Huimei Yang (Yan Wang lab, EEB) | GBB student lightning talk |
| 12:15 – 12:45 PM | Steven Chen (Belinda Chang lab, CSB) | Mapping the activity and abundance landscapes of the visual protein rhodopsin using high-throughput methods |
| 12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch in Koffler House Lobby |
| 1:30 – 2:00 PM | Jared Simpson, PhD (OICR) | Detecting Somatic Mutations Without Matched Normal Samples Using Long Reads |
| 2:00 – 2:05 PM | Haushe Suganthan (Leslie Buck lab, CSB)| GBB student lightning talk |
| 2:05 – 2:10 PM | Ernest Namdar (Farzad Khalvati lab, IMS) | GBB student lightning talk |
| 2:10 – 2:40 PM | Arneet Saltzman, PhD (CSB) | Histone H2A modifications in enhancer regulation and neuronal development |
| 2:40 – 3:00 PM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Koffler House Lobby |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Zachary Kileeg (Adam Mott lab, CSB) | Investigating the pan-RLK landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Sanjana Bhatnagar (John Calarco lab, CSB) | Understanding the RNA Grammar: Functional grouping of non-coding regions in high-dimensional RBP motif space |
| 4:00 – 4:05 PM | Pauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Closing remarks |
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