GSTP
University of Wisconsin-Madison Genomic
Sciences Training Program
Fostering new paradigms for the
biological sciences
Annual Retreat
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street, Madison WI
Genomic Sciences Program Annual Retreat
9:00-9:30 Continental breakfast, Room 313
9:30-9:40 Welcome remarks, Room 313
David Schwartz, PhD, Director, GSTP (Professor, Departments of
Chemistry and Genetics, Biotechnology Center, UW-Madison)
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)
REGISTRATION
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