4th Translational Genomics & Epigenomics Symposium
September 19 & 20, 2024
2018 SCHEDULE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Room 2220 A&B
​8:00am
Registration - Breakfast
​8:45 - 9:00am
Welcome Remarks
Michael Cain, MD, Vice President for Health Services, University at Buffalo
Andrei Gudkov, PhD, Senior Vice President of Basic Sciences, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
SESSION I
MICROBIOME IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Session Chair: Brahm Segal, MD
Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
​9:00 - 9:05am
Session Introduction
​9:05 - 9:35am
The role of microbiome-derived metabolism in cancer prevention and therapy
Scott Bultman, PhD, University of North Carolina
9:35 - 10:05am
The Oral Microbiome in Health and Disease
Robert Genco, PhD, University at Buffalo
10:05 - 10:35am
The microbiome in a flaxseed intervention in healthy, postmenopausal African American and non-Hispanic white women
Susan McCann, PhD, RD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
​10:35 - 10:50am
Trainee talk from abstracts
​10:50 - 11:30am
BREAK
1st Floor – Active Learning Room
​11:00 - 11:15am (1st Floor – Active Learning Room)
ThermoFisher Scientific
Vendor talk
11:15 - 11:30am (1st Floor – Active Learning Room)
New England Biolabs - Enabling NGS Applications with Novel NEBNext® Sample Prep Solutions
Vendor talk
​11:30 - 11:35am
Keyonote Speaker Introduction
Joyce Ohm, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
11:35 - 12:30pm
Development of Synthetic Self-Replicating RNA Platforms for Oncology Vaccines and Therapeutics
Kurt Kamrud, PhD, Synthetic Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, CA
KEYNOTE
12:30 - 1:30pm
LUNCH
1st Floor – Active Learning Room
SESSION II
EPIGENOMICS
Session Chair: Katerina Gurova, PhD
Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
1:30 - 1:35pm
Session Introduction
​1:35 - 2:05pm
Epigenomic reprogramming in response to an environmental toxicant
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, PhD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
2:05 - 2:35pm
A novel principled approach to mapping oligodendrocyte enhancers to genes
Yungki Park, PhD, University at Buffalo
2:35 - 3:05pm
Profiling nuclear receptor corepressor (NCOR2) functions in prostate cancer progression
Dominic Smiraglia, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
3:05 - 3:20pm
Trainee talk from abstract
​3:20 - 4:00pm
BREAK
1st Floor – Active Learning Room
3:30 - 3:45pm
Illumina
Vendor talk
3:45 - 4:00pm
Norgen Biotek - Diversity and signature of small RNA in different bodily fluids using next generation sequencing
Vendors talk
​4:00 - 4:05pm
Keyonote Speaker Introduction
Anna Woloszynksa, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
4:05 - 5:00pm
Cellular and molecular models for epigenetic studies of human diseases
John Greally, PhD, MB, BCh, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
KEYNOTE
5:00 - 7:00pm
SOCIAL GATHERING, co-sponsored by Roswell Park and BNMC
POSTER SESSION
Atrium 2nd floor
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Room 2220 A&B
​8:00am
Registration - Breakfast
​8:45 - 9:00am
Welcome Remarks
Anna Woloszynksa, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
SESSION III
GENOME EDITING
Session Chair: Dean Tang, PhD
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
​9:00 - 9:05am
Session Introduction
​9:05 - 9:35am
Modeling human development and diseases in neurons and brain organoids
Yun Li, PhD, University of Toronto
9:35 - 10:05am
Genome and Epigenome Editing for Gene Therapy and Functional Genomics
Charles Gersbach, PhD, Duke University
10:05 - 10:35am
Epigenomic and transcriptomic analysis of retinal cell differentiation
Xiuqian Mu, PhD, University at Buffalo
​10:35 - 10:50am
Trainee talk from abstract
​10:50 - 11:30am
BREAK - Atrium, 2nd floor
11:00 - 11:15pm
Agilent Technologies - Using High-Fidelity DNA Synthesis to Improve the Quality of CRISPR Libraries
Vendors talk
11:15 - 11:30pm
10x Genomics - Advancements in single cell genomics tools for a more complete understanding of complex biology
Vendors talk
​11:30 - 11:35am
Keynote Speaker Introduction
Aimee Stablewski, MA, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
11:35 - 12:30pm
Base Editing: Performing Chemistry on the Genome
Alexis Komor, PhD, University of California San Diego
KEYNOTE
12:30 - 12:35pm
POSTER AWARDS
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CLOSING REMARKS
12:15 - 1:00pm
LUNCH
1st Floor – Active Learning Room
1:00 - 5:00pm
R/BIOCONDUCTOR training
Martin Morgan, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
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1:00 - 1:30pm
Tackling bioinformatic challenges in genetics and epigenomics using R and Bioconductor
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1:30 - 5:00pm
Hands-on training for genomics data analysis