2025 GERN Schedule

Sunday, April 6

7:30PM

Opening Reception: Meigs Room

Monday, April 7

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Hinman: GRN overview, networks, modularity, subcircuits

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2 - 3:30

Oliveri - introduce sea urchin/echinoderm GRN

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room:
Brown: course content & setup; using Jupyter Notebooks to do basic modeling (a Monte Carlo approach to the Monty Hall problem).

7:30PM

Evening - Swope
Student Poster session

Tuesday, April 8

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Arnone: Inferring GRNs with omics data: Sea Urchin

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Feudo: Apical organ GRN evolution

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Work on subcircuit problems

7:30PM

Evening: Informal social @ MBL Club!

Wednesday, April 9

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Lu: Inferring GRNs: Chick neural plate

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Buckley: Immune Development

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Work on subcircuit problems

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Panel Discussion: Experimental Approaches to GRN and Cis-regulatory Analysis

Thursday, April 10

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Rothenberg: GRNs and Immune systems

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Rothenberg: GRNs and immune systems (continued)

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Longabaugh: BioTapestry intro

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Work on subcircuit problems

Friday, April 11

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Barolo: Design Features of CRE

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Erwin: GRN evolution

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Longabaugh: BioTapestry hands-on/hand out papers and groups

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Panel Discussion: Experimental/comp approaches to inferring GRNs

Saturday, April 12

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Tulin: Inferring GRNs

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Work on subcircuit problems

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Presentations on subcircuits

7:30PM

Evening: Social TBD

Sunday, April 13

Day Off

Monday, April 14

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Briscoe: Introduction to Dynamic Modeling for Developmental GRNS

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Briscoe: Morphogen Gradients/GRN logic response to gradients

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Student work on projects

7:30PM

Evening - Swope
Student Poster session

Tuesday, April 15

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Dior: Plant GRN

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Patel: Comparative GRN in Arthropods

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Student work on projects

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Work on projects

Wednesday, April 16

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Martik: Neural Crest and GRNs

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Rebeiz: GRN and CRE evolution in insects

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Student work on projects

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Social TBD

Thursday, April 17

9:30 - 11:00AM

Morning Seminar - Candle House 104/105
Crystal: Neural crest and GRNs across the vertebrates

11:00AM - Noon

Q & A - Candle House

2:00 - 3:30 

Afternoon Seminar - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie) 
Student Presentations

4:00 - 6:00PM

Afternoon Work  - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Student Presentations

7:30PM

Evening - Bay Paul Room (2nd floor Lillie)
Graduation @ MBL Club

Friday, April 18

Departure Day