7:50 – 8:40 Registration and Light Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 Welcome and Introduction – Cheryl Walker, PhD, Professor and Chair, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine
9:00 – 9:55 James Eberwine, PhD, Elmer Holmes Bobst, Professor and chair, Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania
Single Cell Multiomics Informs Emergent Cell Biologies: From Open-Chromatin Analysis to Multigenic Functional Genomics
9:55 – 10:50 Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, Professor, Division of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Department of Pediatrics, and Director of Translational Research, UC San Diego
The Search for Next Generation Medicine for Malaria Elimination
10:50 – 10:55 Trainee speaker: Pavan Kota, Bioengineering, Rice University. NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
10:55 – 11:00 Trainee speaker: Miriam Gavriliuc, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston. Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Training Program
11:00 – 11:05 Trainee speaker: Jourdan Andersson, PhD, Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine. Antimicrobial Resistance Training Program
11:05 – 12:05 Poster Session (odd numbered) and Networking
12:00 – 12:40 Lunch and Poster Viewing
12:40 – 12:45 Reconvene afternoon session – Craig Hanis, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, UTHealth
12:45 – 1:40 Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Leon Hess Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, and Director, Laboratory of Precision Environmental Biosciences, Columbia University Epigenomics and Precision Environmental Health in Human Studies
1:40 – 1:45 Trainee speaker: Eric Smith, Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine. Precision Environmental Health Training Program
1:45 – 1:50 Trainee speaker: Brittany Jewell, Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. UTHealth, Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists Program
1:50 – 2:50 Poster Session (even numbered) and Networking
2:50 – 2:55 Reconvene – Craig Hanis, PhD
2:55 – 3:50 Richard Finnell, PhD, DABMGG, Professor, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine
Genomic Architecture of Neural Tube Defects: Implications for Precision Medicine?
3:50 – 3:55 Trainee speaker: Madeline Burns, Department of BioSciences, Rice University. NeuroEngineering: From Cells to Systems (NSF IGERT Program)
3:55 – 4:00 Trainee speaker: David Shih, PhD, Systems Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Computational Cancer Biology Training Program
4:00 – 4:55 Debra Laskin, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rutgers University Inflammatory Macrophages: Agents of Defense or Destruction in the Pathogenesis of Lung Disease?
4:55 – 5:10 Awards and Closing – Cheryl Walker, PhD and Craig Hanis, PhD
5:10 – 6:00 Reception