Center for Medical Genomics

Schedule for Retreat — May 19, 2016

Register  >here<  before April 19.   Presentations will be held in the Berg Auditorium (Room 100) of the Huck Life Sciences Building.

Time	Presenter	Title
9:00–9:30		Coffee, light breakfast
9:30–10:00	Melissa Wilson Sayres (Arizona State Univ.)	Sex-biased genome evolution and medicine
10:00–10:30	Heather Lawson (Washington Univ. St. Louis)	Physiological and genetic evidence links hemopexin to triglycerides in metabolic disease
10:30–11:00	Andrew Patterson (Penn State UP)	Using metabolomics to decipher the metabolic chatter between the host and gut microbiota
11:00–11:30	Piotr Janicki (Penn State Hershey)	100 genomes for a price of one — pooled next-generation sequencing strategy for discovery of rare functional variants in platelet activation pathway genes contributing to risk of large vessels ischemic stroke
11:30–1:30		Lunch and poster session
1:30–2:30	Anna Di Rienzo (Univ. Chicago)	The genetics of inter-individual variation in transcriptional response traits: biomedical and evolutionary implications
2:30–3:00	Margherita Cantorna (Penn State UP)	Vitamin D and the microbiota cooperate to regulate gastrointestinal homeostasis and inflammatory bowel disease
3:00–3:30		Coffee
3:30–4:00	James Broach (Penn State Hershey)	The genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
4:00–4:30	Francisco Diaz (Penn State UP)	Effects of zinc deficiency on oocyte quality and developmental potential
4:30–5:00	George Lucian Moldovan (Penn State Hershey)	Mechanisms regulating the response to replication stress and DNA damage

Scientific organizers:  Kateryna Makova, Sarah Craig, and Marta Tomaszkiewicz
Administrative organizer:  Donna Panasiti