Below is the 15th Annual q-bio Conference Schedule. All Invited Talks, Contributed Talks (including parallel sessions), Poster Spotlight Talks, and the Banquet talks will be streamed online for registered online participants (and contingent upon agreement by the presenter). Links will be provided to registered participants a few days before the beginning of the meeting. Poster sessions will be for in-person participants only.
Unless stated otherwise, all sessions take place in the Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB) Auditorium (Room 101).
Poster Titles and Abstracts are Posted Here: Posters Abstracts
Participants who provided Online Research Videos are shown in purple and Posted Here: Online Research Pitch Videos
Wednesday, June 15
- 12:00 – 14:00 Registration and Check In (BSB 101)
- 14:00 – 14:30 – Invited Talk – Megan McClean, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression
- 14:30 – 15:00 – Invited Talk – Bumsoo Han, Purdue University, Reverse Engineering of Cellular Signal Processing Machinery during Directed Cell Migration
- 15:00 – 15:30 – Invited Talk – Michaelle Mayalu, Stanford University, Analysis and Design of Engineered Cell Population Control Circuit via Paradoxical Feedback
- 15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
- 16:00 – 16:15 – Welcome Introduction – Ashok Prasad, Colorado State University
- 16:15 – 17:00 – Welcome Keynote Talk – Timothy J. Stasevich, Colorado State University, Imaging Single-mRNA Translation Dynamics in Living Color
- 17:30 – 19:00 – Welcome Reception and Light Dinner (Scott Bioengineering Building Atrium)
Thursday, June 16
- 09:00 – 09:30 – Invited Talk – Gregor Neuert, Vanderbilt University, Determining mechanisms of regulation by antisense long noncoding RNAs at the Xist locus in embryonic stem cells using single-cell and single-molecule experiments
- 09:30 – 09:50 – Contributed Talk – Rui Fang, Harvard University, ONLINE PITCH – A Free-Energy Landscape Approach Reveals the Global Conformational Dynamics of Proteasomal ATPases
- 09:50 – 10:10 – Contributed Talk -Tomasz Lipniacki, IPPT, Poland, Non-self RNA rewires IFNβ signaling: A model of the innate immune response
- 10:10 – 10:40 – Invited Talk – Diane Lidke, University of New Mexico, Using fluorescence microscopy to determine the dynamics and composition of the FcεRI signalosome
- 10:40 – 11:00 – Contributed Talk – Thomas R. Sokolowski, IST Austria, Rationalizing the optimality of the Drosophila gap gene system by ab-initio derivation of optimal solutions for morphogenetic patterns
- 11:00 – 11:10 – Poster Spotlights 1-3:
- Eric Medwedeff, Approximate Simulations of Cortical Microtubules using Dynamical Graph Grammars
- Sydney Alderfer, Linking Cell Morphology to Cell Identity Using Machine Learning
- Louis Gonzalez, Flow Sensing in Cancer at High Cell Density
- 11:10 – 12:30 – Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 (groups A/B)
- 12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – 14:30 – Invited Talk – Hyun Youk, University of Massachusetts, Life in slow lane: yeast in dormancy and at frigid temperatures
- 14:30 – 14:50 – Contributed Talk – Nicolas Romeo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ONLINE PITCH – Learning developmental mode dynamics from single-cell trajectories
- 14:50 – 15:10 – Contributed Talk – Linda Forero, Colorado State University, ONLINE PITCH – Phosphorylation of the carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II (RNAP2) occurs in a spatiotemporal organized manner at a single-copy gene in live-cells
- 15:10 – 15:30 – Contributed Talk – Ania-Ariadna Baetica, University of California, San Francisco, Tuning Incoherent Feedforward Circuit
Architectures with Feedback to Rapidly Develop a Modular Toolbox - 15:30 – 16:00 – Invited Talk – Andrew Mugler, University of Pittsburgh, ONLINE PITCH – Multigenerational memory in cell size control
- 16:00 – 16:10 – Poster Spotlights 4-5 (groups B/C)
- 16:10 – 17:40 – Coffee Break and Poster Session 2
- 18:15 – 21:00 – Banquet (Canvas Stadium, Indoor Club)
- 18:15 – 18:20 – Welcome, UQ-Bio Summer School Wrap-Up and Thank you to Sponsors, Brian Munsky
- 18:20 – 18:30 – Overview of CSU Research, Alan Rudolph (CSU Vice President of Research) – Link to Slides
- 19:30 – 20:30 – Keynote Address, Jeff Gore, MIT
Friday, June 17
- 09:00 – 09:20 – Contributed Talk – Barbara Jones, IBM Research, ONLINE PITCH – Host-based Viral Evolution and Mutation
- 09:20 – 09:50 – Invited Talk – Sid Goyal, University of Toronto, A dynamical systems treatment of transcriptomic trajectories
- 09:50 – 10:10 – Contributed Talk – Daniel Schultz, Dartmouth, Evolution of antibiotic responses in complex dynamic settings
- 10:10 – 10:40 – Invited Talk- Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins University, Chromosome organization and gene regulation by DNA supercoiling
- 10:40 – 10:50 – Poster Spotlights 6-7 (groups A/C)
- Hossein Jashnsaz, Logarithmic signaling regulate MAPK stress response and survival
- Timothy Hamilton, Fractal-Like Density in Single Cell Data
- 11:00 – 12:30 – Coffee Break and Poster Session 3
- 12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:20 – Parallel Session 1A (BSB 103)
- TBA
- 14:20 – 14:40 Contributed Talk – Marek Kochancyk, IPPT Poland, Antagonism between viral infection and innate immunity at the single-cell level
- 14:40 – 15:00 Contributed Talk – Shankar Mukherji, Washington University St Louis, Uncovering the principles coordinating systems-level organelle biogenesis with cellular growth
- 15:00 – 15:20 Contributed Talk – Zachary Fox, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Using Stochastic Models to Control Gene Expression Under a Microscope
- 14:00 – 15:20 – Parallel Session 1B (BSB 107)
- 14:00 – 14:20 Contributed Talk – Andrew Goetz, University of Florida, Information Transmission by Heterogeneous Cell Populations
- 14:20 – 14:40 Contributed Talk – Corey Weistuch, MSKCC, Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of liposarcoma
- 14:40 – 15:00 Contributed Talk – Hye-In Son, Duke University, Methods for controlling gene expression level of bacterial populations
- 15:00 – 15:20 Contributed Talk – Mingyang Lu, Northeastern University, Context-Specific EMT Regulatory Networks from Temporal Single Cell RNA-Seq Data
- 15:20 – 15:40 – Short Coffee Break
- 15:40 – 17:00 – Parallel Session 2A (BSB 103)
- 15:40 – 16:00 Contributed Talk – Marian Gómez-Schiavon, UNAM, ONLINE PITCH – CoRa –A general approach for quantifying biological feedback control
- 16:00 – 16:20 Contributed Talk – Mayesha Sahir Mim, University of Notre Dame, ONLINE PITCH – Shining Light on Calcium-Mediated Morphogenesis : Forward Engineering Organ Development with Optogenetics
- 16:20 – 16:40 Contributed Talk – Jianhua Xing, University of Pittsburgh, ONLINE PITCH – Coupling between cell cycle and cell fate change
- 16:40 – 17:00 Contributed Talk – Franco Tavella, University of Michigan, ONLINE PITCH – In vitro cell cycle oscillations exhibit a robust and hysteretic response to changes in cytoplasmic density
- 15:40 – 17:00 – Parallel Session 2B (BSB 107)
- 15:40 – 16:00 Contributed Talk – Ashok Prasad, Colorado State University, A Genetic Toggle Switch in Arabidopsis
- 16:00 – 16:20 Contributed Talk – Breanne Sparta, University of California Los Angeles, A lack of distinct cellular identities in single cell data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape
- 16:20 – 16:40 Contributed Talk – Leonard Harris, University of Arkansas, A biochemical model of necroptosis explains cell type-specific responses to cell-death cues
- 16:40 – 17:00 Contributed Talk – Sivan Pearl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ONLINE PITCH – Community interactions drive the evolution of antibiotic tolerance in bacteria