2024 meeting

July 26, 2024

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2024 meeting!

all events in the Weintraub Building at Fred Hutch

9:00 - 9:30

Arrival, coffee, and poster setup - Sze Conference Room

9:30 - 10:45

Session 1 - Pelton Auditorium

Moderator: Renee Geck

Maitreya Dunham: Welcome!

Gareth Cromie: Allelic Variation at a Small Number of Loci Identifies Subpopulations with Distinct Genetic Architectures

Alex Marr: Linking Genomic Structural Variations and Phenotypic Diversity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains: Insights from North American Vineyards and Wineries

Rebecca Martin: Compromised telomere maintenance facilitates tandem duplications and translocations of SUL1 during sulfate-limited growth

Elizabeth Stephens: Mutational mapping of SMC1 using dominant synthetic lethal screening to identify therapeutically relevant states of cohesin

Benjamin Haagen: FIT-ing patterns: complex regulatory networks govern expression variation of mating pheromone responsive genes between two isolates of S. cerevisiae

10:45 - 11:30 Coffee Break and Posters (suggest last names A-J present) - Sze Conference Room

Thanks to Sunrise Science!

11:30 - 12:15

Session 2 - Pelton Auditorium

Moderator: Matthew Berg

Carmina Lichuaco: Sir2 and Fun30 modulate ribosomal DNA replication timing via Mcm helicase positioning and nucleosome occupancy

Abdul Muntakim Rafi: Evaluation and optimization of sequence-based gene regulatory deep learning models using MPRA data from yeast

Anuradha Venkatramani: Understanding the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by yeast general regulatory factors

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch - on your own - map of local options will be available

1:30 - 2:15

Session 3 - Pelton Auditorium

Moderator: Ishita Joshi

Matthew Berg: Uncovering the impact of mistranslating tRNA variants using multidimensional proteomics in yeast

Cathy Cozma: Investigating pol-zeta biology using dominant Rev3 missense variants

Megan Balzarini: The ER crossing guard: Djp1’s role in peroxisomal protein import

2:15 - 3:30

ADEI/outreach/teaching session

Moderator: Aimee Dudley

Maitreya Dunham: PSA about dissection needle availability from Singer

Brian Wasko: CRISPR CURE

Paul Rowley: brewery collaboration

Jennifer Nemhauser: Scientist Spotlights

Dan Pollard: concept inventories

Leah Anderson: mutation browser for high school teaching lab

Bonny Brewer: restructured intro genetics teaching/grading

3:30 - 4:15 Coffee Break and Posters (suggest last names K-Z present) - Sze Conference Room

Thanks to Sunrise Science!

4:15 - 5:00

Session 4 - Pelton Auditorium

Moderator: Rina Hirano

Grant King: Using a budding yeast model to identify regulatory ecDNA host factors

Joe Armstrong: URA6 mutations provide an alternative mechanism for 5-FOA resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jack Creagh: Bacterial toxin homologs found in Saccharomyces yeast

5:00 - 5:10

Discussion about prospects for PNWYC2025

5:10 - 6:00 Beer Chat - Weintraub Atrium

Thanks to Marketing and Communications at Fred Hutch!

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