The goal of our Genome Center Research Retreat is to foster colleague familiarity, a sense of belonging, and inter-lab collaboration while providing insight into current activities and discussing the future of the Genome Center.
2024 Genome Center Research Retreat Agenda
Monday, April 15, 2024
- 9.00 – 9.30 Blake Meyers: GC vision and research summary
- 9.30 – 10.15 Genome Center cores:
- 9.30 - 9.40: Proteomics: It's actually really useful now and is only getting better! by Brett Phinney
- 9.40 - 9.50: The missing piece: the role of the metabolomics core in completing the omics puzzle? by Uri Keshet
- 9.50 - 10.00: DNA and Expression analysis
- 10.00-10.10: Bioinformatics
- 10.15 – 10.30 Break
- 10.30 – 11.00 Focus group Computational Bio/Genomics
- 11.00 – 11.30 Focus group Epigenomics
- 11.30 – 12.00 Focus group Plant-Microbe Interactions
- Emerging Perspectives on Host-Microbe Interactions by Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
- 12.00 – 1.00 Lunch and posters:
- 1.00 – 1.30 Focus group Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics
- 1.30 – 2.00 Focus group Animal Genomics
- Functional annotation, epigenetic regulation, evolution, and humanization of animal genomes by Dietmar Kültz and Huaijun Zhou
- 2.30 – 3.00 Focus group Human Genetics
- 3.00 – 3.15 Break
- 3.15 – 3.45 Focus group Structure/Function and Metabolism
- “Structure-Function" meets "Metabolism" by Oliver Fiehn et al.
- 3.45 – 4.15 Focus group Plant Genomics
- 3.45 - 4.00: Emerging opportunities in Plant Genomics research at UC Davis by Grey Monroe
- 4.00 - 4.15: The mutational origins of genomic variation in plants: adaptive mechanisms and their consequences for plant diversity by Grey Monroe
- 4.15 – 5.00 Reception in the Lobby including a toast to Richard Michelmore's 20 years as Genome Center Director.