Breakfast and Poster Setup

8:00 - 9:00

Welcome and Department Update

9:00 - 9:15

Session I - Faculty Presentations

9:15
Oliver Hobert
Map making in C. elegans: charting the nervous system

9:50
Rodney Rothstein
The under-appreciated significance of gene overexpression

10:25
Molly Przeworski
Of mice, men, and birds: meiotic recombination with and without PRDM9

Break

11:00 - 11:15

Session II - Lab Presentations

11:15
Yishai Shimoni (Califano Lab)
A pan-cancer pipeline for combinatorial identification of tumor subtypes

11:40
Juan Arriaga (Abate-Shen Lab)
Functional genome-wide screen to identify drivers of prostate cancer metastasis

12:05
Rotem Rubinstein (Honig Lab)
Protocadherin interactions suggest a molecular logic of neuronal self-recognition

Lunch and Posters

12:30 - 2:30

Session III - Lab Presentations

2:30
Hossein Khiabanian (Rabadan Lab)
Intra-host evolution and high-resolution genomic surveillance of filoviruses

2:55
Hongjian Qi (Yufeng Shen Lab)
Pleiotropic effects of de novo mutations underlie the comorbidity of neurodevelopmental disorder in congenital heart disease patients

3:20
Guy Amster (Sella Lab)
The effect of life history on the rate of the molecular clock and implications for great apes

Closing Remarks

3:45 - 4:00

Wine Reception and Posters, Presentation of Best Poster Award

4:00 - 5:30