2017 Postdoc Symposium schedule

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 Introduction and Welcome

9:10 – 9:25 Aimee Marceau, PhD (CHEM)

FoxM1 activity is regulated by a phosphorylation dependent structural switch

9:25 – 9:40 Paul Mattern, PhD (E&MS)

Data assimilation for biogeochemical ocean models

9:40 – 9:55 Paul Goetsch, PhD (MCDB)

The C. elegans pocket protein LIN-35 stabilizes MuvB-mediated transcriptional repression

9:55 – 10:10 Natnael T. Hamda, PhD (IMS/NOAA)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques as a tool for Ecological System Analysis: Overview and Application Examples

10:10 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:15 KEYNOTE TALK 1: Professor Joanne N. Engel, MD, PhD (UCSF)

Intracellular pathogens as master cell biologists: How Chlamydia co-opts the host to survive intracellularly

11:15 – 11:30 Daniela Keilberg, PhD (METX)

Spatial and temporal shifts in bacterial biogeography and gland occupation during the development of chronic infection

11:30 – 11:45 Sergio Covarrubias, PhD (MCDB)

A Cytoplasmically-Localized Long Noncoding RNA Regulates The Switch Between Macrophage Differentiation And Inflammation

11:45 – 12:00 poster set up

12:00 – 1:15 Lunch

1:15 – 2:00 KEYNOTE TALK 2: Professor Katherine Pollard, PhD (UCSF)

Most transcription factors recognize DNA shape

2:00 – 2:15 Josh Parks, PhD (EE)

Multiplexed Detection of Influenza and Zika Virus on a Chip

2:15 – 2:30 Jason Fernandes, PhD (CBSE)

Functional Segregation of Overlapping Genes in HIV

2:30 – 2:45 Shelbi Russell, PhD (MCDB)

Dynamics of intra-host symbiont evolution under mixed modes of transmission

2:45 – 3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00 – 4:30 Career discussion panel: a focus on science in industry

4:30 – 5:30 Poster session and reception

5:30 – 5:40 Talk and Poster prizes, closing remarks

6:00 pm end of symposium