Friday, June 8, 2018
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental Breakfast
  • 9:30-9:45
    Welcome remarks, David C. Schwartz, Ph.D.Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program (Professor, Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:30
    Keynote Speaker
    Title TBA
  • 10:30-11:15
    Poster session
  • 11:15-11:45
    GSTP Faculty Speaker
    Title TBA
  • 11:45-1:00
    Lunch
  • 1:00-1:45
    Invited Speaker
    Title TBA
  • 1:45-2:15
    GSTP Faculty Speaker
    Title TBA
  • 2:15-2:30
    Break
  • 2:30-3:00
    Invited Speaker
    Title TBA
  • 3:00-4:30
    Poster session

Friday, May 29th, 2015
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

  • 9:30-10:00
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 10:00-10:15
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 10:15-11:15
    Keynote Speaker – Michael C. Jewitt (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University)
    Engineering Synthetic Ribosomes
  • 11:15-12:00
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
  • 1:00-1:30
    Katherine McMahon (Professor, Depts. of Baceriology and Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Observing Genome-wide Selective Sweeps and Gene-Specific Sweeps in Natural Bacterial Populatins Using Time-Seies Metagonmics
  • 1:30-2:00
    Anthony Gitter, PhD (Department of Biostatistics and Medical Infomatics, UW-Madison; Morgridge Institute for Research)
    Deciphering the Cancer Mutational Landsdape with Pathway Analysis
  • 2:00-2:10
    Break (Refreshments served)
  • 2:10-2:40
    Peter Lewis (Department of Biomolecular Chemistry; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW-Madison)
    Investigating How Histone H3 Mutations Drive Childhoood Cancers
  • 2:40-3:40
    Poster session, Room 309

Friday, May 30th, 2014
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:35-9:45
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:45
    Keynote Speaker – John Stamatoyannopoulis, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
    Decoding the Human Genome
  • 10:45-11:30
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:30-12:00
    Len Jenkin, PhD, Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
    Some Brief Remarks on Science, Magic and Creativity
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
  • 1:00-1:50
    Christina Kendziorski, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW-Madison
    Statistical Methods for Genomic Based Studies of Disease
  • 1:55-2:10
    Break (Refreshments served)
  • 2:10-2:35
    Kris Saha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Deparment of Biomedical Engineering, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW-Madison
    Towards Integration of Synthetic Biology into Human Stem Cells
  • 2:35-3:00
    Aaron Hoskins, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, UW-Madison
    From a Pig’s Breakfast to Fine Dining: Using Single Molecules to Simplify the Spliceosome
  • 3:00-4:00
    Poster session, Room 309

Friday, June 14th, 2013
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

  • 9:30-10:00
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 10:00-10:10
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 10:10-11:10
    Keynote Speaker – Kevin White (James and Karen Frank Family Professor of Human Genetics; Professor of Ecology & Evolution; Director, Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology, U. of Chicago)
    Integrating Genomic Networks to Identify Biomarkers and Drug Targets
  • 11:15-12:00
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
  • 1:00-1:30
    Emery Bresnick (Professor, Cell & Regenerative Biology, Director, UW-Madison Blood Research Program, UW-Madison)
    Genomic Analysis of Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis
  • 1:35-2:05
    Rupa Sridharan (Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology; Epigenetics Theme, Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, UW-Madison)
    Mechanism of Somatic Cell Reprogramming
  • 2:05-2:35
    John Pool (Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, UW-Madison)
    Genomic Approaches to Studying Adaptive Evolution and its Genetic Basis
  • 2:35-3:20
    Poster session, Room 309

Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:40-10:40
    Keynote Speaker – David Krakauer, PhD (Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Academic Program Director, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    The Evolutionary Nature of Biological Information Processing
  • 10:40-11:40
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:40-12:10
    Chris Hittinger, PhD (Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, UW-Madison)
    The Diversity of Patagonian Saccharomyces and the Origin and Evolution of Lager-brewing Yeast
  • 12:10-1:15
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:15-2:15
    Rick DeRose, PhD (Lead, Technology Strategy and Integration, Syngenta)
    Bringing Plant Potential to Life: beyond one gene, one product, one lab
  • 2:15-2:45
    Sushmita Roy, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW-Madison)
    Reconstructing the Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Programs in Yeasts
  • 2:45-4:45
    Reception with Wisconsin beverages and treats, Room 309
    Poster session, Room 309
    Sponsored by Syngenta

Friday, June 3rd, 2011
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Vilas Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:40  Keynote Speaker – John Wiley, PhD (Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; Professor, Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Keynote Presentation
  • 10:45-11:30
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:30-11:55
    Michael Coen, PhD (Assistant Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Spatial Computing
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:30
    Fotios Asimakopoulos, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Departments of Hematology; Oncology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health)
    Genomic Approaches to Characterize Multiple Myeloma
  • 1:35-2:05
    Jian Ma, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Comparative Genomics Yields Insights into the Human Genome
  • 2:10-2:25
    Break
  • 2:25-2:55
    Laurence Loewe, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, UW-Madison; Theme member, Systems Biology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery)
    Evolutionary Systems Biology and the Adaptive Landscape
  • 3:00-4:15
    Poster session, Room 309

Friday, June 11th, 2010
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Vilas Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:40
    Keynote Speaker – Sangtae Kim, PhD (Executive Director, Morgridge Institute for Research)
    Discovery to Delivery: the Morgridge Institute for Research
  • 10:45-11:30
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:30-11:55
    Mark Burkard, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health)
    Exploring the Kinome for Cancer Targets
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:30
    Paul Ahlquist, PhD (Professor of Molecular Virology and Oncology, UW-Madison and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
    Genome-wide Analyses of Virus Replication and Tumor Progression
  • 1:35-2:05
    Miron Livny, PhD (Professor, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    How High Throughput Techniques Can Help Your Computational Tasks
  • 2:10-2:25
    Break
  • 2:25-2:55
    John Denu, PhD (Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Epigenetics Theme Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery)
    Writers and Readers of the ‘Histone-Code’
  • 3:00-4:15
    Poster session, Room 309

Monday, June 8th, 2009
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Vilas Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:40
    Keynote Speaker – Kevin White, Ph.D. (Professor, Human Genetics; Ecology & Evolution; Director, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Univ. Chicago)
    Scaling up Genome Analyses to Drill Down to Function
  • 10:45-11:30
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:30-11:55
    Pamela Kreeger, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Experimental and Computational Analysis of Cancer Signaling Networks
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:25
    Jignesh Patel, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Indexing for Success: Effective and EfficientAnalysis of Biological Data
  • 1:30-1:55
    Douglas Weibel, Ph.D. (Assistant professor, Biochemistry, UW-Madison)
    Mechanisms Bacteria Use to Sense Physical Boundaries
  • 2:00-2:15
    Break
  • 2:15-2:55
    Michael Hoffman, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair, Oncology, UW-Madison)
    Chemical and RNAi Genomics at UW-Madison: How to Access the Available Infrastructure and an Example of Applying it to TGF-beta Signal Transduction
  • 3:00-3:25
    Vikas Singh, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, UW-Madison)
    Single and Multi-modal Image Analysis for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Applications
  • 3:30-4:15
    Poster session, Room 309

Monday, June 9th, 2008
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:35
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:35-10:20
    Keynote Speaker – Timothy J. Donohue, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Plugging Plant and Microbial Genomes into the Energy Grid
  • 10:25-10:40
    Thomas F. Pyle, Jr., MBA (Chairman, The Pyle Group)
  • 10:40-11:35
    Poster session (Refreshments served), Room 309
  • 11:35-11:55
    Jennifer L. Reed, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Getting from Genotypes to Phenotypes through Network Reconstruction & Modeling
  • 12:00-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:20
    Jon A. Wolff, Ph.D. (Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medical Genetics, UW-Madison)
    Dynamic PolyConjugates: A Modular, Synthetic System for in Vivo Delivery of siRNA
  • 1:25-1:45
    David A. Mead, Ph.D. (Lucigen Corp., Middleton WI)
    Mining Thermophilic Metagenomes for Polymerases and Cellulases
  • 1:50-2:10
    Karl W. Broman, PhD (Associate Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Medicial Informatics, and Genetics, UW-Madison)
    Mapping Multiple QTL in Experimental Crosses
  • 2:15-2:30
    Break
  • 2:30-2:50
    Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor,Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison)
    Polydispersity in Self-Assembling Polymeric Systems
  • 2:55-3:15
    Ryan J. Kershner, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Top Down Meets Bottom Up: Controlled Placement of DNA Nanostructures
  • 3:20-4:30
    Poster session, Room 309

Friday, June 8th, 2007
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:40
    Keynote Speaker – T. Conrad Gilliam, Ph.D. (Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Professor and Chair, Department of HumanGenetics, University of Chicago)
    Genetic-linkage Mapping of Complex Hereditary Disorders to a Whole-genome Molecular-interaction Network
  • 10:45-11:30
    Poster session
  • 11:30-11:55
    Ahna Skop, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, UW-Madison)
    Using Proteomics and Comparative Genomics to Understand Cytokinesis
  • 11:55-1:00
    Lunch, Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:25
    Franco Cerrina, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Synthesis of Long DNA from Microarray Oligomers
  • 1:30-1:55
    John Markley, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Biochemistry, UW-Madison), Metabolomics at Madison
  • 2:00-2:15
    Break
  • 2:15-2:40
    George Craciun, Ph.D. ( Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UW-Madison)
    Mathematical and Computational Methods for Understanding Dynamical Properties of Biochemical Interaction Networks
  • 2:45-3:10
    Colin Dewey, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Correlation of Evolutionary Constraint and Biological Function in the Human Genome: A Report from the ENCODE Project
  • 3:15-3:40
    Adel Talaat, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, UW-Madison)
    A Decade of Genomic Research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis: What Have We Learned So Far?
  • 3:45-4:30
    Poster session

Monday, May 22nd, 2006
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:40
    Welcome remarks – David Schwartz, PhD, Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison), Room 313
  • 9:40-10:30
    Maynard Olson, PhD, Keynote Speaker (Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine, University of Washington)
    What Is a Wild-type Human?
  • 10:35-11:25
    Poster session I and coffee break, Room 309
  • 11:30-11:50
    Christina Kendziorski, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW-Madison)
    Model Selection to Improve QTL Localization
  • 12:00
    Lunch, The Pyle Center
  • 1:00-1:40
    Bento Soares, PhD (Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
    Multi-functional Metastasis Signature in Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma
  • 1:45-2:05
    Sean Palecek, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Analysis of Bcr-Abl Kinase Activity in Cell Lysates Using Arrays of Proteins Covalently Immobilized in Hydrogels
  • 2:10-2:25
    Break
  • 2:25-2:45
    Aseem Z. Ansari, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry; Genome Center, UW-Madison)
    Defining DNA Binding Profiles of Natural and Artificial Transcription Factors with CSI Arrays
  • 2:50-3:30
    Jonathan Pritchard, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago)
    Widespread Signals of Very Recent Natural Selection in the Human Genome
  •    3:30-4:30
    Poster session II, Room 309

Wed., June 15th, 2005
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental Breakfast, Room 313
  • 9:30-9:45
    Welcome remarks – David C. Schwartz, Ph.D. Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program (Professor, Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:30
    Geoff Dyyk, M.D., Ph.D. (TPG Ventures; Chair, External Advisory Board, The Molecular Sciences Inst.)
    Translating Translational Research
  • 10:30-11:15
    Poster session
  • 11:15-11:50
    Cameron Currie , Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bacteriology, UW-Madison)
    Symbiosis, Coevolution, and Genomics: Ancient Agriculture in Ants
  • 11:50-1:00
    Lunch
  • 1:00-1:25
    Julie Mitchell., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Depts. of Mathematics and Biochemistry, UW-Madison)
    Mathematical Approaches to Molecular Biology
  • 1:25-1:50
    Eric Shusta, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison)
    Genomic Comparison of in Vivo and in Vitro Blood-Brain Barrier Models
  • 1:50-2:10
    Audrey Gasch, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Genetics; Genome Center of Wisconsin, UW-Madison)
    Regulation of stress-dependent Genomic Expression Programs in Yeast
  • 2:10-2:25
    Break
  • 2:25-2:50
    Josh Coon, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, UW-Madison)
    Protein Sequence Analysis with Mass Spectrometry: New Technology, the Histone Code, and Comparative Analysis of Phosphorylation
  • 2:50-3:10
    Sridhara Dasu (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, UW-Madison)
    Computing in High Energy Physics and Its Relevance for Other Sciences
  • 3:10-4:30
    Poster session

Monday, June 21, 2004
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

  • 9:00-9:30
    Continental Breakfast
  • 9:30-9:45
    Welcome remarks, David C. Schwartz, Ph.D.Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program (Professor, Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry, UW-Madison)
  • 9:45-10:30
    Roger Brent, Ph.D. President, The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA
    The Alpha Project and the Dream of a Predictive Biology
  • 10:30-11:15
    Poster session
  • 11:15-11:45
    Mark Craven, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Depts. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Machine Learning Applied to Uncovering Bacterial Gene Regulation
  • 11:45-1:00
    Lunch
  • 1:00-1:45
    George N. Phillips, Jr., Ph.D. (Professor, Depts. of Biochemistry and Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Structural Genomics at UW-Madison and Beyond
  • 1:45-2:15
    Nicole Perna, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences; Genome Center of Wisconsin)
    What Can Comparative Genomics Tell Us about Soft-rot, Diarrhea and the Plague?
  • 2:15-2:30
    Break
  • 2:30-3:00
    C. David Page, Jr., Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and  Medical Informatics, and Computer Sciences, UW-Madison)
    Using Data Mining to Gain Clues into Multiple Myeloma
  • 3:00-4:30
    Poster session