The 2018 Annual Conference on Quantitative Approaches in Biology was held November 16-17, 2018 at Northwestern University. The conference was a free two-day event that included a range of activities to stimulate the cross-fertilization of ideas, including guest speaker talks, a workshop on collaboration in team-science, a round table panel discussion, networking opportunities, a poster session, an undergraduate research competition, and a reception.
Read more about the 2018 conference at this link, https://www.quantitativebiology.northwestern.edu/2018/11/26/body-of-numbers/
Click here for the Program Book
Click here for Poster Session Abstracts (Friday & Saturday)
Click here for Lightning Talk Abstracts (Saturday)
Friday, November 16
Venue: McCormick Auditorium, Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
| 8:30 am | Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:50 am – 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Tassos Pavlopoulos, PhD Janelia Research Campus |
| 10:15 am – 11:15am | Anindita (Oni) Basu, PhD University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 11:15 am – 11:30 am | Science in Society: |
| 11:45 am – 12:30 pm | Workshop: Collaboration & Interdisciplinarity Research Bennett Goldberg, PhD Northwestern University |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Working Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Poster Session Includes the Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology Poster Competition |
| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Group Photo |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Keynote: Boris Shraiman, PhD Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara |
| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm | Round-table Panel: Collaborating Across Disciplines |
| 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks & Award Ceremony |
| 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm | Reception & Networking |
| 6:30 pm | Meet up |
Saturday, November 17
Venue: Abbott Auditorium, Pancoe Hall, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
| 8:30 am | Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:50 – 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Rosemary Braun, PhD Northwestern University |
| 9:45 am – 10:30 am | Sascha Hilgenfeldt, PhD University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:45 am – 11:30 am | Andrew Mugler, PhD Purdue University |
| 11:30 am – 12:15 pm | Milo Lin, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch & Poster Session* |
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Lightning Talks* |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Arthur Prindle, PhD Northwestern University |
| 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Margaret Gardel, PhD University of Chicago |
| 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks |
| 6:00 pm | Meet up |
