| 8:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| | Session 1: Chromosome-level dynamics |
| 9:00am | Rob Unckless (KUCG Director, Associate Professor in MB at KU) | Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:15am | Jae Choi (Postdoc at NYU, Assistant Professor in EEB at KU - 2023) | Natural variation in plant telomere length is associated with flowering time |
| 9:30am | Martina Dalikova (Postdoc in EEB at KU) | Assembly and characterization of W chromosome in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) |
| 9:45am | Brandon Fagen (Technician at Stowers Institute) | Outer repeats of Schizosaccharomyces pombe centromeres experience high rates of gene conversion, expansion, and contraction |
| 10:00am | Andrew Degar (Illumina) | Metagenomic Whole Genome Sequencing Using Illumina Products |
| 10:15am | Coffee/tea Break |
| | Session 2: Genomics in human health |
| 10:45am | Samalee Banerjee (Graduate student in MB at KU) | Quorum Sensing Regulation by the Nitrogen Phosphotransferase System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| 11:00am | Emily Nissen (Bioinformatician at KUMC) | Assessment of immune cell profiles among apparently healthy postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative using DNA methylation-based methods |
| 11:15am | Timothy Raben (Postdoc at Michigan State University) | Polygenic Risk Scores using Sparse Prediction: sibling validation, clinical application, and other methods |
| 11:30am | Nanda Yellapu (Postdoc at KUMC) | Identification of treatment response signatures in the Protein-Protein interaction network maps of triple negative breast cancer |
| 11:45am | Poster Session 1 (Odd Numbers) |
| 12:30pm | Lunch Break |
| | Session 3: Gene Expression |
| 1:30pm | Luciana Castellano (Graduate student at Stowers Institute) | Codon-dependent regulation of gene expression during Dengue infection |
| 1:45pm | Jeffrey Medley (postdoc at Kansas State University and KINBRE speaker) | Regulation of microRNA Strand Selection in vivo |
| 2:00pm | Patrick Lansdon (Postdoc in MB at KU) | Wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans Isolates Exhibit Distinct Gene Expression Profiles in Response to Microbial Infection |
| 2:15pm | Joanna Gress (Assistant Professor at Emporia State University) | What the Buzz about CBD: Does cannabidiol oil provide a protective effect against pesticide exposure in the honey bee gut? |
| 2:30pm | Coffee/tea Break |
| 2:45pm | Poster Session 2 (Even Numbers) |
| | Session 4: Microbiome and Genomics |
| 3:30pm | Tokee Tareq (Graduate student in EEB at KU) | Functional profiling of soil microbiome for elucidating maize heterosis |
| 3:45pm | Sarah Mullinax (Graduate student in MB at KU) | The intersection of sex, immunity, and the microbiome on the maintenance of genetic variation in the Drosophila antimicrobial peptide diptericin A |
| 4:00pm | Dingbo Lin (Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University) | Zeaxanthin-altered gut microbiome is associated with changes in whole body bone mineral density in mice |
| 4:15pm | Keynote Speaker: Helen E. Vuong (Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota) | Understanding microbiome and nervous system interactions |
| 5:15pm | Happy Hour and Appetizers + Closing Remarks and Awards |
| 7:00pm | Dinner (on your own) |