Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression        
March 11 - 14, 2020

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Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Adamson, Brittany

Enabling scalable interrogation of rich single-cell phenotypes

talk

Aristizabal, Maria J

High resolution time course analysis of Cdk8 depletion reveals a role for the mediator complex kinase subunit in glycolytic gene expression

poster

Banerjee, Abhimanyu

Deep learning models of 422 C2H2 zinc finger transcription factor binding profiles reveal alternative DNA binding sequence preferences via combinatorial use of zinc fingers

talk

Barshad, Gilad

Additive or redundant? Enhancer ensembles in the light of evolution

talk

Bartom, Elizabeth Thomas T

Expression of exogenous mRNA in human cancer cell lines leads to RISC-mediated cell death

poster

Bellec, Maelle

Decoding the function of mitotic bookmarking on transcriptional dynamics

talk

Beres, Thomas

The nuts and bolts of NIH Peer Review

poster

Bhat, Pooja

Profiling gene expression dynamics during early embryogenesis in zebrafish

poster

Blumberg, Amit

Characterizing RNA stability genome-wide through combined analysis of PRO-seq and RNA-seq data

poster

Bonny, Alain

Stress-induced transient cell cycle arrest coordinates metabolic resource allocation and balances adaptive tradeoffs

talk

Buck, Michael J

Breaking into chromatin with p53/p63/p73

poster

Buen Abad Najar, Carlos F

A network of poison exons controls splicing factor expression during neurogenesis

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Bulyk , Martha

MEDEA—Enrichment analysis of binding motifs for transcription factors in accessible chromatin

poster

Bulyk , Martha

Transcriptional silencers in Drosophila serve a dual role as transcriptional enhancers in alternate cellular contexts

talk

Castro-Mondragon, Jaime

Combining transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation to predict mutations altering the gene regulatory program in cancer cells

poster

Catta-Preta, Rinaldo F

Combinatorial transcription factor binding analysis reveals regulatory wiring in embryonic brain development and evolution

poster

Chappleboim, Alon

Xrn1 depletion reveals the dynamics and limits of global mRNA homeostasis

talk

Cheemalavagu, Neha

Integrated modeling approach for predicting macrophage functional states

poster

Chen, Kok Hao

Highly specific multiplexed RNA imaging with split-fluorescence in situ hybridization

talk

Chiu, Tsu-Pei

Modeling transcription factor-DNA binding with a multi-module deep learning framework

talk

Chou, Nigel

Highly specific multiplexed RNA imaging with split-fluorescence in situ hybridization

poster

Chou, Shao-Pei

Genetic dissection of the RNA polymerase II transcription cycle

poster

Crocker, Justin

A mutagenesis survey of a developmental enhancer using automation and robotics reveals constraints on evolvability

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Danko, Charles

Accurate imputation of histone modifications using transcription

poster

Davies, Philip R

Understanding the interplay between mammalian cell growth and gene expression noise.

poster

Duttke, Sascha H

Cooperative and spacing-dependent regulation of human transcription by diverse sequence-specific transcription factors

poster

Farhat, Dayana

A MORC-driven transcriptional switch controls Toxoplasma developmental trajectories and sexual commitment

poster

Fernandez Fuentes, Narcis

Identification of novel inhibitory peptides of TWEAK-Fn14 signaling pathway using PiPreD, a structure-based computational method.

poster

Findley, Anthony S

Cell-type, environmental, and stochastic factors modulate genetic effects on gene transcription

poster

Friedman, Ryan Z

Sequence features that specify enhancer and promoter activity

talk

Frost, Stephanie

Cardiovascular disease-associated variants and their interplay with epigenomic enhancer conservation

poster

Gaye, Amadou

Social disadvantage, gene expression and depressive symptoms in
African American from the Minority Health GRID Study

poster

Gebhardt, Christof

Computer aided interactive gene network simulations including stochastic molecular kinetics and noise

poster

Gerstein, Mark

An integrative ENCODE resource for cancer genomics

poster

Ghaffari, Saba

Integrated analysis of multi-omics data to identify transcriptional regulators of cancer progression

poster

Giganti, David

Visualizing the zinc finger – DNA landscape by the molecular parameters that define these interactions

talk

Gillis, Jesse

The transcriptional legacy of developmental stochasticity

talk

Gordan, Raluca M

Beyond DNA shape readout—The role of conformational penalties in protein-DNA recognition

talk

Goyal, Yogesh

Elucidating biochemical trajectories guiding therapy resistance at the single cell level

talk

Gui, Yujuan

The genetic and epigenetic architecture of axonal branching of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons in the mouse

poster

Guo, Yue

SunRISE—A labeling system for long-term imaging of single mRNA molecules in live cells

talk

Haigh, Alexandra

Multi-omic temporal exploration of endometrial dynamics underlying the human implantation window

poster

Hait, Tom A

Inferring cell type-specific enhancer-promoter interactions

poster

Hammell , Christopher

BLMP-1 functions as a transcriptional rheostat to control gene dosage during larval development in C. elegans

poster

Hammelman, Jennifer L

Identification of determinants of differential chromatin accessibility through a massively parallel genome-integrated reporter assay

talk

Hansen, Kasper B.

Promoter CpG density is predictive of downstream gene loss-of-function intolerance

poster

Hardison , Ross

An integrative view of the regulatory and transcriptional landscapes in mouse and human hematopoiesis

poster

Harris, Benjamin

Multiscale co-expression in the brain

poster

He, Jin

FGF/MAPK signaling links polycomb repressive complex 2 to regulate gene expression in mouse embryonic stem cells

poster

Honda, Mizuki

High resolution spatial RNA-seq method focusing on photo-isolation chemistry

talk

Hook, Heather J

CASCADE—A PBM-based platform to biophysically characterize enhancers and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

poster

Hoskins, Jason

Expression and activity QTL analyses of phenotypic master regulators suggest downstream gene regulatory impacts of cardiometabolic GWAS signals in subcutaneous adipose tissue

poster

Hu, Shengen

Broad CpG islands mark functionally important genes for priority in transcriptional regulation

poster

Huang, Wenrui

Neuroinflammation characterizes the earliest changes in Alzheimer’s disease pathology and associated subjective cognitive impairment in adult hydrocephalus biopsies

poster

Hughes, Tim

A diverse family of CGG binding proteins in Coelacanth produced by repeated integration of hAT transposons

poster

Jansen, Camden

Pruning developmental gene regulatory networks using linked self-organizing maps

poster

Jin, Fulai

DeepLoop robustly identifies enhancer-promoter interactions from low-depth and single-cell Hi-C data

poster

Jo, Leonardo

Deciphering the mechanisms of LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1) as a transcriptional regulator of seed development

poster

Jolma, Arttu K

AT hook DNA binding domains are highly abundant and evolve rapidly

poster

Jothi, Raja

Bivalent chromatin does not poise genes for rapid activation

talk

Kang, Michelle

Linking cis-regulatory regions using transcription factor binding signatures

poster

Kaplow, Irene M

A guide to predicting activity of cis-regulatory element orthologs in hundreds of species

talk

Kim, Jun

The role of condensin DC on 3D organization of X-chromosome in C. elegans

poster

Knaack, Sara A

Dynamic regulatory module networks to study context-specific gene regulation

poster

Krebs, Arnaud R

Single-molecule characterization of transcription factor cooperative binding at mouse cis-regulatory elements

talk

Krishnaswamy, Smita

Detecting structure and patterns in big biomedical data

talk

Kumar, Vivek

Transcriptome profiling and genome-scale metabolic modeling using Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)

poster

Ladewig, Erik

ARID1A mediated defects in mammary gland development

poster

Lareau, Liana F

Coverage-dependent bias creates the appearance of binary splicing in single cells

poster

Laverty, Kaitlin U

Sequence and structure preferences of RNA binding proteins

talk

Lee, Jiyoung

Single cell transcriptome analysis characterizes low-grade non-resolving inflammation in mice monocytes

poster

Lee, Jun-Yeong

Implication of CpG islands on transcriptional instability during aging

poster

Lenstra, Tineke

Single-molecule imaging reveals the interplay between transcription factors, nucleosomes and transcriptional bursting

talk

Leviyang, Sivan

Regulation of interferon stimulated genes at homeostasis

poster

Liang, Yue

Klf4 is part of the cis-regulatory code leading to enhancer activation in mESCs

poster

Lou, Shaoke

TopicNet—A framework for measuring transcriptional regulatory network change

poster

Mahajan, Tarun

Internetwork connectivity of molecular networks across species of life

poster

Mahony, Shaun

Hox binding specificity is directed by DNA sequence preferences and differential abilities to engage inaccessible chromatin

talk

Martinez-Ara, Miguel

Systematic combinatorial testing of enhancer-promoter pairs.

talk

Meeuse, Milou

Functional dissection of a gene expression oscillator in C. elegans

poster

Meuleman, Wouter

Functional organization and compartmentalization of the accessible human genome

poster

Miao, Liyun

Identification of the regulatory networks controlling chromatin remodeling during zygotic genome activation

talk

Miraldi, Emily

Benchmarked strategies for transcriptional regulatory network inference from scRNA-seq

poster

Mouri, Kousuke

Identification and characterization of repressive elements using MPRAduo

talk

Mylonas, Constantine

A dual role for H2A.Z.1 in modulating Initiating and Elongating RNAPII dynamics

talk

Nair, Ajay

Transcription factor protein-activity and binding-location inference

poster

Nameki, Robbin A

Characterizing the core-regulatory circuitry in high-grade serous ovarian cancer and precursor normal fallopian tube cells

poster

Narykov, Oleksandr

Functional dynamics of protein interactome induced by alternative splicing—An in silico approach

poster

Nollmann, Marcelo

Through the looking-glass—Does DNA structure determine transcriptional activity?

talk

Nora, Elphege P

Molecular basis of CTCF binding polarity in genome folding

talk

Noyes, Marcus B

A massively parallel synthetic screen of finger-to-finger influences unlocks the code of zinc finger specificity and compatibility

talk

Nyquist, Sarah K

Describing condition-specific gene modules in single-cell RNA-Seq with differential gene-gene correlation

poster

Oh, Jin Woo

Sequence alignment using gapped-kmer composition identifies conserved orthologous mammalian enhancers with high precision

poster

Oliva, Baldo

On the prediction of DNA-binding preferences of C2H2-ZF domains using structural models—Application on human CTCF

poster

Osmanbeyoglu, Hatice U

Integrative computational framework for linking cell-specific signaling and transcriptional programs

talk

Parrello, Damien

Widespread processing of nascent RNA in paused Pol II complexes is uncoupled from productive transcription

talk

Patel, Zain M

Examining recognition models for vertebrate regulatory sequences

poster

Pazin , Mike J

NHGRI funding opportunities

poster

Planells, Jordi

Chromatin associated RNAs in Drosophila melanogaster—Identification and functional implications for maintenance of chromatin compaction

poster

Quintero Cadena, Porfirio

RNA Pol II length and disorder enable cooperative scaling of transcriptional bursting

talk

Rahmanian, Sorena

Robust method for long-read sequencing and quantification of metabolically labeled mRNAs

poster

Rama Pedro Alves, Mariana

Multi-enhancer transcriptional hubs confer phenotypic robustness for developmental enhancers with variable binding affinities

poster

Rao, Satyanarayan

In vivo mapping of transcription factor cooperativity at enhancers genome-wide

talk

Rebboah, Elisabeth

Single nucleus RNA-seq and ATAC-seq of multinucleated skeletal muscle cells reveals priming of neuromuscular junction genes in the mouse C2C12 cell line

poster

Reed, Robert D

cis-regulatory architecture of butterfly wing pattern evolution

talk

Rivera Barreto, Anthony R

Determining the DNA binding preference of the transcription factor optix in Heliconius butterflies

poster

Rodriguez-Martinez, Jose A

DNA-binding specificity of cardiac transcription factor complex of GATA4 and NKX2-5

poster

Rosado-Tristani, Diego A

Transcription factors in the order Lepidoptera

poster

Rumley, Jonathan D

Regulation of anterior genes in the C. elegans embryo

poster

Sammons, Morgan A

Parallel and non-redundant regulation of metabolic genes by master regulators of cell fate

poster

Sanford, Eric M

How does a gene integrate two signals?

poster

Sauria, Michael

Integrating DNA-sequence and epigenetic signals to predict differential chromatin topology

poster

Schubeler, Dirk

A screen of mammalian transcription factor sensitivity to chromatin identifies a novel essential regulator of ribosomal protein genes

talk

Serizay, Jacques

Distinct regulatory architectures of germline and soma genes in C. elegans

poster

Shigaki, Dustin T

A method to identify transcription factor binding site motifs from DNA sequence based enhancer prediction models

poster

Shlyueva, Daria

Integrated approach to study cell cycle-dependent chromatin dynamics

poster

Siao, Michelle

An expansion in the C-terminal domain of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II and maintenance of epigenetic memory in P. falciparum

poster

Sobreira, Debora

Functionally dissecting the genetic landscape of complex human traits

talk

Song, Mengyi

GATA5/6 broadly regulates the early specification of mesoderm lineages in zebrafish

poster

Staller, Max V

Probing the sequence-to-function relationship of transcription factor activation domains

talk

Tabe Bordbar, Shayan

Thermodynamics-based modeling of enhancer RNA transcription in breast cancer cells

poster

Taipale, Jussi

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

talk

Tan, Xiangtian

The TReK project—Large-scale knockdown of transcriptional regulators, at multiple timepoints, in human cell lines using an enhanced CRISPR repressor to improve gene-interaction networks

poster

Taskiran, Ibrahim I

Deep learning and cross-species analysis on single-cell ATAC-seq data to decipher melanoma enhancer logic

talk

Tresch, Achim

Nuclear RNA export is slower than expected—A comprehensive picture of RNA metabolism in HeLa cells

poster

Trizzino, Marco

Human-specific SVA transposons rewired gene regulatory networks in the human hippocampus

poster

Vierstra, Jeffrey

Chromatin dynamics during hematopoiesis reveal discrete regulatory modules instructing differentiation

poster

Wang, Li

Elucidating functional enhancers governing pancreas cell identity

poster

Wang, Lingfei

Normalisr—Statistical inference of gene regulations in single-cell transcriptomics

poster

Wang, Siyuan

Multiplexed imaging of nucleome architectures in single cells of mammalian tissue

talk

Wang, Xiangxiu

Inferring core transcriptional regulatory networks during zygotic genome activation in zebrafish

poster

Weaver, Kathryn J

Predicting cis-regulatory element-gene pairing from epigenetic data in mouse hematopoiesis

poster

Weirauch, Matthew T

Epstein-Barr virus EBNA2-driven gene dysregulation in autoimmune disease

poster

White, Michael A

Flanking sequence elements define functional Crx binding sites in the genome

poster

Xi, Wang

Loop extrusion model predicts CTCF interaction specificity

talk

Xiang, Guanjue

S3norm—Simultaneous normalization of sequencing depth and signal-to-noise ratio in epigenomic data

poster

Yang, Hui

Allele-specific DNA methylation and H3K9me3 blocks are critical for early embryo development

poster

Yu, Wenqiang

Reactivation of tumor suppressor by enhancer switching through NamiRNA Network

poster

Zang, Chongzhi

Cancer-specific CTCF binding facilitates oncogenic transcriptional dysregulation

poster

Zhang, Yuning

Competition for DNA binding between paralogous transcription factors determines their genomic occupancy and regulatory functions

poster

Zhao, Rose

CoRec—A high-throughput PBM platform for profiling active transcription factor-cofactor complexes in cells

poster

Zuo, Zheng

A ‘picky tail’ model of embryonic stem cell fate regulation

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