The 6th annual BCB Symposium, Single-cell -omics: Advances and Future Directions, will be held virtually on Friday, May 1, via WebEx from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Hosting the annual event is the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) Program Graduate Student Organization.

If you plan to attend, please follow and complete the Qualtrics survey. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the symposium, please send them to Zach Lozier (zlozier@iastate.edu).

WebEx Event link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=efa878c4b18bb8176a8efc561ef94e413

WebEx teleconference number: 1-415-655-0001; Access code: 298 975 036

Schedule and speaker information:

9:30am - 9:45am: Zach Lozier (ISU BCB-GSO President) - Greetings

9:45am - 10:00am: Dr. Iddo Friedberg (ISU BCB Chair and Director of Graduate Education) - Opening Remarks

10:00am - 10:50am: Dr. Trevor Nolan (Duke University) - Interrogating brassinosteroid responses at cellular resolution using time series single-cell transcriptomics

10:50am - 11:00am: Short break

11:00am - 11:20am: Sagnik Banerjee (ISU Dept. of Statistics) - A computational pipeline to identify protein targets using next generation yeast two-hybrid screening

11:20am - 11:40am: Amy Pollpeter (ISU Dr. Auriel Willette Lab)- Effect of genetic variants connected with late onset Alzheimer’s Disease on cognitive function measures

11:40am - 12:00pm: Break

12:00pm - 12:50pm: Dr. Jimmie Ye (University of California San Francisco)- Multiplexed multimodal single cell genomics

12:50pm - 1:00pm: Short Break

1:00pm - 1:20pm: Nancy Manchanda (ISU Dr. Matt Hufford Lab) - Sequence, assembly and annotation of B104 maize inbred line

1:20pm - 2:10pm: Dr. Emily Miraldi (Cincinnati Children's Hospital) - Gene regulatory network inference from scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq

2:10pm - 2:20pm: Short break

2:20pm - 3:10pm: Dr. Elizabeth Purdom (University of California Berkeley) - T.B.D

3:10pm - 3:20om: Short break

3:20pm - 3:50pm: Undergraduate BCB student research presentations

3:50pm - 4:00pm: Dr. Iddo Friedberg (ISU BCB Chair and Director of Graduate Education) - Closing remarks