Retreat Agenda Day 3

Breakfast

Check Out of Hotel

Session Four

Chair: Cyril Anyetei-Anum

Graduate Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mentor: Dan McKay

Nila Pazhayam

Graduate Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mentor: Jeff Sekelsky

“The Centromere Effect in D. melanogaster”

Quan Sun

Graduate Student, Biostatistics, Mentor: Yun Li

“Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI”

Evan Dewey, PhD

Postdoc, Department of Biology, Mentor: Jeff Sekelsky

“Visualization of CRISPR/Cas9 DNA Repair Products Suggest Multiple Mechanisms of Homology Directed Repair”

Wonho Kim, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics

“Deciphering the Stepwise Regulatory Mechanisms of Genome Folding”

Department of Genetics Keynote Speaker

Pat Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP

Distinguished Professor

Departments of Genetics, Psychiatry

Director, UNC Suicide Prevention Institute

Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

“Team Science @ UNC: lessons learned”

 Closing Session

Moderator: Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena