2014 Symposium Schedule
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 | Coffee (in GSB Lobby) – graciously provided by GPSF |
| 9-9:30 | Managing code, data, and more like a professional: a quick introduction to Git and GitHub by Ethan White (GSB 1378) Generating transgenics using CRISPR/Cas by Adam Cockrell (GSB 1377) |
| 9:45-10:15 | Plant Biodiversity at Your Fingertips by Carol Ann McCormick and Shanna Oberreiter (Coker 401 – UNC Herbarium) Breaking free from Esri: using R to analyze spatial data by Brian Evans (GSB 1378) What you can learn from fossils- a hands on experience by Pat Gensel (Wilson 140) |
| 10:30-11 | Plant Biodiversity at Your Fingertips by Carol Ann McCormick and Shanna Oberreiter (Coker 401 – UNC Herbarium) Social Media for Scientists by Emily Darling (GSB 1377) |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch (GSB lower lobby) UNC Biology Slideshow (GSB 200) |
| 12:30-1 | Post-doc Presentation: Dr. Erin Mordecai with “The role of niche differences and fitness differences in maintaining virus diversity in barley yellow dwarf viruses” (GSB 200) |
| 1-1:30 | EEOB Student Presentation: Jessica Higgins with “The Times They Are a-Changin: Larval Adaptation of Physiological Traits Due to Climate Change” (GSB 200) |
| 1:30-2 | MCDB Student Presentation: Stephanie Nowotarski with “Enabled and Diaphanous direct distinctive protrusive behavior in neighboring tissue types during Drosophila dorsal closure” (GSB 200) |
| 2-3:30 | Poster session and coffee break (GSB lower lobby) |
| 3:30-4:15 | MCDB Faculty Presentation: Dr. Amy Maddox with “Regulation of myosin during cytokinesis” (GSB 200) |
| 4:15-5 | EEOB Faculty Presentation: Corbin Jones with “Something from nothing: non-coding regions of the genome give rise to new genes” (GSB 200) |