CBC Open House 2018 | Computational Biology Core

The Second Annual Computational Biology Core Open House will be held on the UConn Storrs campus: Friday, April 27th 8:45am - 1:30pm.

location:

Registration/Morning Session: Philip E. Austin Building (AUST 110)
Lunch/Xanadu Workshop: Engineering and Science Building (ESB Lobby)
Geneious Workshop: Pharmacy/Biology Building (PBB129)

Shuttle transportation is available from UCHC (TBA) for those interested. Lunch is provided for registered attendees. Please register here!

This half-day event will provide an overview of the resources available through the Institute for Systems Genomics with a focus on new resources for bioinformatics support provided by the Computational Biology Core (CBC). We will discuss project support, training, software, and hardware.

Research talks will focus on members of the UConn community actively using the resources available through the CBC. There are two free training sessions available during the lunch hour, please select the session you wish to attend when you register. Please join us for a fun and informative day!

8:45 - 9:15 - Coffee and Registration

9:15 - 9:25 - ISG Introduction: Rachel O'Neill - Professor MCB and CGI Director, Director of the ISG

9:25 - 9:45 - CBC Review: Jill Wegrzyn - Assistant Professor EEB and CBC Director

9:45 - 10:00 - CGI Sequencing Services: Bo Reese - Senior Scientist CGI

10:00 - 10:15 - MARS Services: Kendra Maas - Senior Scientist MARS

10:15 - 10:30 - Break

10:30 - 12:00 - Research Talks

10:30 - 10:45 - Jianjun Sun - Assistant Professor PNB

A novel Drosophila model for the study of ovulation and the development of contraceptive medicines

10:45 - 11:00 - Elizabeth Jockusch - Professor EEB

Testing hypotheses for the origin of the novel treehopper helmet using comparative transcriptomics

11:00 - 11:15 - Sarah Hird - Assistant Professor MCB

Three quick tales of the avian microbiome

11:15 - 11:30 - Justin L. Cotney - Assistant Professor Genetics & Genome Sciences

Epigenomic Annotation of Early Human Craniofacial Development

11:30 - 11:45 - Mukul Bansal - Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering

Deciphering microbial evolution using phylogenetic reconciliation

11:45 - 12:00 - Ann Bucklin - Professor Marine Sciences

Metabarcoding the hidden biodiversity of marine zooplankton - with a little help from Mothur

12:00 - 1.30 - Lunch and Learn Sessions

Session A* (12:30-1:30): Geneious: Molecular Biology and NGS analysis Tool (Tutorial)

Helen Shearman, Field Application Scientist,Geneious

Session B* (12:30-1:30): HPC basics and introduction to Xanadu cluster

Vijender Singh, Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, CBC

*These sessions will be running in parallel, please confirm your choice in the registration form.

Computational Biology Core

CBC Open House Schedule 2018