The First Annual WID Symposium will feature research talks, hub updates, poster sessions, networking opportunities, and more. This event is integral to being a WIDite, so please make your attendance a top priority and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
The focus of this year’s symposium is the newly formed hubs. As we approach the one-year mark in WID’s Strategic Plan, the hubs are beginning to nucleate campus researchers, hire staff, and provide services. We will hear from leaders in each of the hubs as well as from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in research in each of the hubs.
The symposium’s second poster session will feature research posters submitted by WIDites. Each WID lab is expected to submit at least one poster for this session. Recycled posters from other meetings are acceptable. Poster boards at the Pyle Center ar 4’x6′.
Tentative schedule:
| 8:30 am | Registration, Light Breakfast Pyle center Room 325/326 |
| 9:00 am | Welcome & Expectations WID Director Jo Handelsman |
Session 1: Data Science Hub Focus
| 9:30 | DATA SCIENCE HUB OVERVIEW, Functions & Services Lauren Michael, Research Computing Facilitator |
| 10:05 | Dynamic Regulatory Module Networks for integrative inference of cell type-specific regulatory programs Deborah Chasman, Postdoctoral Associate |
| 10:25 | Data Science Hub Panel Discussion |
Posters & Lunch
| 10:45 | Poster Session Showcasing Labs & Groups at WID Pyle Center Alumni Lounge (coffee provided) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch & Community Building WID Community Building Committee Pyle Dining Room (buffet lunch) |
Session 2: Illuminating Discovery Hub Focus
| 1:00 | ILLUMINATING DISCOVERY HUB OVERVIEW Kevin Ponto, ID Hub Leader |
| 1:20 | Small World Initiative Amanda Hurley, Postdoctoral Associate |
| 1:35 | You are what (your bacteria) eat: epigenetics and the microbiome Sydney Thomas, Graduate Student (Denu Lab), Illuminating Discovery Course Graduate |
| 1:55 | Illuminating Discovery Panel Discussion |
Session 3: Multi-Omics Hub Focus
| 2:15 | MULTI-OMICS HUB OVERVIEW Multi-Omics Hub Faculty Member |
| 2:35 | Multi-Omics Hub Functions & Services Sailendharan Sudakaran, Multi-Omics Hub Manager |
| 2:50 | Understanding how mitochondrial metabolism controls lifespan and healthspan Rashpal Dhillon, Postdoctoral Associate (Denu Lab) |
| 3:10 | Multi-Omics Hub Panel Discussion |
Session 4: Research at WID
| 3:30 | Rethinking the origin of life problem from a chemical ecosystem perspective Lena Vincent, Graduate Student (Baum Lab) |
| 3:50 | Poster Session Showcasing Research Projects at WID Pyle Center Alumni Lounge (coffee and snacks provided) |
| 5:05 | Fabrication, characterization, and modification of tissue engineered small diameter blood vessels for transplantation Yiyang Xu, Postdoctoral Associate (Turng Lab) |
| 5:20 | WID Trainee Welfare Report Trainee Group Representatives |
Closing
| 5:50 | Alumni Address Carrie Roy, Distinguished WID Alumna |
| 6:15 | Closing Remarks WID Director Jo Handelsman |
| 6:30 | Social Hour & Community Building Pyle Rooftop Terrace (hors d’oeuvres, cash bar) |