Retreat 2018

11th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat, March 22, 2018

Duane Roth Auditorium, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

Keynote Speakers:
Rudolf Jaenisch and Jeannie T. Lee.

8:15	Coffee & Registration
8:45	Welcome & Opening Remarks	Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD
9:00	Epigenetic Aging Signatures in Mice Livers are Slowed by Dwarfism, Calorie Restriction and Rapamycin Treatment	Tina Wang, Ideker lab
9:15	Regulatory Principles Governing Enhancer Specificity	Emma Farley, PhD
9:45	Learning to Read The Macrophage Genome Through Transcription Factors	Jenahn Tao, Glass lab
10:00	Morning Keynote: “X marks the spot: Of chromosomes, RNA, and Rett Syndrome”	Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Paternally inherited cis-regulatory structural variants are associated with autism	Danny Antaki, Sebat lab
11:30	Genetic Differences Between Humans and our Closest Living and Extinct Evolutionary Cousins	Ajit Varki, MD, PhD
12:00	Lunch
1:00	New Intrigue at the Host-Pathogen Interface	Victor Nizet, MD
1:30	The Role of ELOVL2 in Aging and Eye Disease	Daniel Chen, Zhang lab
1:45	Genome Regulation in 3D	Bing Ren, PhD
2:15	Genetic Regulation of the Plasma Proteome	Terry Solomon, Frazer lab
2:30	Are tumors predictable? Inherited genetic variation constrains tumor evolution	Hannah Carter, PhD
4:00	Afternoon Keynote: “Epigenetic Regulation in Development, Aging, and Disease States.”	Rudolf Jaenisch, MD Whitehead Institute
5:00	Closing Remarks	Bruce Hamilton, PhD