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: |
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 |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks | Bruce Hamilton, PhD |