Thursday, March 28, 2019
9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
125 Li Ka Shing Center
| 9:30 AM | Opening remarks |
| 9:45 AM | Scott Dawson, University of California, Davis Disc-o-fever: getting down with the structure, function and evolution of Giardia’s groovy ventral disc |
| 10:15 AM | Lillian Fritz-Laylin, University of Massachusetts Amherst The frog-killing chytrid fungus is a naked amoeba that can build a cell wall |
| 10:45 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 AM | Kelly Dawe, University of Georgia The molecular mechanism of meiotic drive in maize |
| 11:30 AM | Abby Dernburg, University of California, Berkeley Counting to One: Patterning of meiotic recombination by a reaction-diffusion mechanism |
| 12:00 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:00 PM | Cande Lab Alumni, Short talks Hank Bass, A bouquet by any other name would smell as sweet Meredith Carpenter, Unlocking the Power of Next-Generation Sequencing for Infectious Disease Detection Fei Li, The role of heterochromatin in centromere evolution Janet L. Paluh, Mitotic Mechanisms to Neurological Pathologies Marianne Poxleitner, Gonzaga Universities Undergraduate Phage Discovery Research Program Anne Sylvester, Focusing on lines during maize leaf development |
| 2:00 PM | Linda Wordeman, University of Washington Microtubule dynamics and chromosome segregation |
| 2:30 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:00 PM | Alex Paredez, University of Washington Cytoskeletal innovations for sticking around |
| 3:30 PM | Nicole King, University of California, Berkeley Flipping out with a tide pool choanoflagellate |
| 4:00 PM | Closing remarks |
| 4:15–5:30 PM | RECEPTION |