Registration (free) is now open for the 2019 PIRS Mini-Symposium:  https://phenomics.iastate.edu

The primary goals of the symposium are:

• to convene scientists interested in discovering & computing on phenotypes, especially phenotypes that are similar across large evolutionary distances and/or diverse organisms (“phenologs”)
• to generate ideas and focus groups for developing future collaborations and grant proposals

Our  research goal is to develop integrated computational and experimental approaches for identifying underlying similarities in biological processes across diverse organisms (e.g., Arabidopsis to zebrafish to human).  Talks and posters from both computational biologists who focus on “phenomics” and experimental biologists who work on compelling biological problems in model organisms.  

INVITED SPEAKERS include: 

• Todd Vision (UNC, Chapel Hill)
• Maura McGrail (ISU)
• Jeanne Serb(ISU)
• Jiangming Yu(ISU)
• Justin Walley (ISU)
• Student Speakers:  Ian Braun (BCB/P3, ISU) and Claire McWhite (Univ Texas)

This mini-symposium is supported by an ISU Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant Program (PIRS) awarded to: Diane Bassham (PI), Carolyn Dill, Matthew Ellinwood and Drena Dobbs.