Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information

Posters & Presentations

GAUSSI Participants Posters and Presentations:

Lyndsey Gray. A Technique You Can Count on: Age-grading mosquitoes by measuring wing scale loss. West Central Mosquito & Vector Control Association. March 2020. Grand Junction, CO.

Charlotte Cialek. Visualizing dynamic tethering of Argonaute to single mRNA in live human cells elucidates miRNA-mediated translational silencing. Biophysical Society 2020. February 2020. San Diego, CA.

Lyndsey Gray. Know Thy Enemy: Combating Colorado’s deadliest pest to defeat West Nile virus. State of the Science: Looking forward to 2030 and beyond. February 2020. Fort Collins, CO.

Alex Mauro. The Transcriptomic Basis of a Trade-off Between Salinity Tolerance and Competitive Ability in Trinidadian Guppies. Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology Conference 2020. January 2020. Austin, TX.

Josué Andrés Rodríguez-Ramos. Small ripples can result in big tides: viral impacts on carbon and nitrogen transformations in Columbia River sediments. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December 2019. San Francisco, CA.

Lindsey Winkenbach. The relationship between transcript localization and translation in the Caenorhabditis elegans early embryo. Front Range Neuroscience Group. December 2019. Fort Collins, CO.

Shaun Cross. Partitiviruses with Characteristics of Mutualistic Symbionts Are Extremely Common in Wild Drosophila Melanogaster, and Have Relatives in Mosquito Vectors. SACNAS. November 2019. Honolulu, HI.

Reyes Murrieta. Impact of Extrinsic Incubation Temperature on Flavivirus Population Structure in Mosquito Hosts. SACNAS. November 2019. Honolulu, HI.

Lyndsey Gray. Something Old, Something New: Revisiting and novel applications for wing scale counting as a tool for age-grading An. gambiae. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 68th Annual Meeting. November 2019. National Harbor, MD.

Alec Richardson, “Bridging the Gap: A Microfluidic Device to Study Organotypic Barrier Tissues.” Micro Total Analysis Systems (MicroTAS) conference. October 2019. Basel, Switzerland.

Luke Schwerdtfeger. Instrumented Microfluidic Organotypic Device for Culture of Mammalian Intestine. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. October 2019. Philadelphia, PA.

Aeriel Belk. Using Microbiome Tools to Estimate the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains. International Symposium on Human Identification. September 2019. Palm Springs, CA.

Steven Lakin. Machine learning and high performance computing uncover increased diversity in the microbiome and resistome. The Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute Annual Summit. August 2019. Westminster, CO.

Alyssa Melvin. Using Nitric Oxide-Releasing Metal–Organic Frameworks on the Surface of Blood-Contacting Glucose Biosensors to Reduce Biofouling. American Chemical Society National Meeting. August 2019. San Diego, CA.

Shaun Cross. Characterization of partitiviruses infecting arthropod model organisms and disease vectors. The American Society of Virology Annual Meeting. July 2019. Minneapolis, MN.

Bridget Eklund. The role of the microbiome in patients with type I and type II diabetes mellitus and responses to insulin treatment. ASM Microbe 2019. July 2019. San Francisco, CA.

Jessica Warren. Loss and import: Tracing the evolution of mitochondrial tRNA gene loss and functional replacement in Silene. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. July 2019. Manchester, England.

Aeriel Belk. Microbiome Primer: How Computer Science Can Be Used in Combination with Meat Science. 2019 Reciprocal Meat Science Conference. June 2019. Fort Collins, CO.

Amy Fox. Flowing Through the Tubes: Development of an R-based Data Analysis Pipeline. Cytek Group Meeting 2019. June 2019. Vancouver, BC.

Amy Fox. Development of an R-Based Pipeline to Analyze Flow Cytometry Data. CYTO 2019. June 2019. Vancouver, BC.

Aeriel Belk. Utilizing Microbiome and Bioinformatic Tools to Reduce Food Waste in Poultry. 2019 Reciprocal Meat Conference. June 2019. Fort Collins, CO.

Alex Mauro. Population Genomics of a Tropical Euryhaline Fish Distributed Across a Salinity Gradient. Evolution 2019. June 2019. Providence ,RI.

Dylan Parker. The subcellular localization of asymmetrically distributed mRNA transcripts during Caenorhabditis elegans early embryogenesis. FASEB Science Research Conference. June 2019. Snowmass Village, CO.

Dylan Parker. Mechanisms of mRNA localization in the early C. elegans embryo. Front Range Work Symposium. May 2019. Fort Collins, CO.

Daniel Jonas. Mathematical Modeling of Mechanisms of Tolerance. TRIPODS 2nd Southwest Summer Conference. May 2019. Oracle, AZ.

Luke Schwerdtfeger. Microfluidic Organotypic System for the Analysis of Intestinal Tissue Ex Vivo. Digestive Disease Week. May 2019. San Diego, CA.

Josué Andrés Rodríguez-Ramos. More than meets the eye: Microbial communities and their viral predators govern carbon and nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone. Front Range Microbiome Symposium. April 2019. Fort Collins, CO.

Daniel Dean. Climate Change and the Soil Microbiome: Insights from the B4WarmED Climate Research Experiment. Front Range Microbiome Symposium. April 2019. Ft. Collins, CO.

Josué Andrés Rodríguez-Ramos. More than meets the eye: Microbial communities and their viral predators govern carbon and nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone. 2019 Environmental System Science PI Meeting. April 2019. Potomac, MD.

Shaun Cross. Partitiviruses with characteristics of mutualistic symbionts are extremely common in wild Drosophila melanogaster, and have relatives in mosquito vectors. The Annual Drosophila Research Conference. March 2019. Dallas, TX.

Aeriel Belk, “Building a Microbial Model to Estimate the Postmortem Interval (PMI) Using Data Collected During the Spring Season at Three Anthropological Facilities.” American Academy of Forensic Science Annual Meeting. February 2019. Baltimore, MD.

Amy Fox, “Tuberculosis Mechanisms, Pathogenesis, and Treatment, “Unsupervised Flow Cytometry Clustering Analysis of Memory Immune Populations in Response to BCG Vaccination and Persistence in Different Mouse Models.” Keystone Symposia. January 2019. Breckinridge, CO.

Zach Fox, “Model-driven Design of single-cell and single-molecule experiments.” Gordon Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology. January 2019. Ventura, CA.

Steven Lakin, “Statistical Supercomputing Improves Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance.” Plant and Animal Genome Conference. January 2019. San Diego, CA.

Luke Schwerdtfeger, “Human Colon Function Ex Vivo: Dependence on Cellular Diversity.” Front Range Neuroscience Group Annual Meeting. December 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Dayton Pierce. “The Phosphatase PTP-3 Regulates Transport of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors (AMPARs) in the Nematode C. elegans.” Front Range Neuroscience Symposium. December 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Aeriel Belk, “Using the Skin and Gravesoil Microbiome to Estimate the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains.”  American Society of Microbiology – Rocky Mountain Branch Meeting. November 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Mike Mangalea, “The NarX/NarL Nitrate-Sensing Two-Component System Regulates Biofilm Dynamics in Burkholderia pseudomallei.” American Society for Microbiology – Rocky Mountain Branch. November 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Dayton Pierce, “The Phosphatase PTP-3 Regulates Transport of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors (AMPARs) in the Nematode C. elegans.” Society for Neuroscience. November 2018. San Diego, CA.

Reyes Murrieta, “Extrinsic Incubation Temperature and Its Impact on Zika Virus Vector Competence and Population Structure.” American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67th Annual Meeting. October 2018. New Orleans, LA.

Shannon Stiverson, “Clustering Algorithms on the Grassmann Manifold with Applications” at NSF Algorithms for Threat Detection, Algorithms for Threat Detection Annual Workshop. October 2018. Washington, DC.

Shaun Cross, “Characterizing the microbiota of wild Ixodes scapularis ticks.” Rocky Mountain Virology Meeting. October 2018. Bellevue, CO.

Luke Schwerdtfeger, “Human Colon Function Ex Vivo: Dependence on Cellular Diversity.” The Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. October 2018. Atlanta, GA.

Jessica Warren, “Application of Improved tRNA Sequencing Methods Reveals a Dominant Isoacceptor in Angiosperm tRNA Profiles.” The 27th International tRNA Conference. September 2018. Strasbourg, France.

Dylan Parker, “Mechanisms of mRNA localization in the early C. elegans embryo.” Rocky Mountain Chromatin Conference. August 2018. Aurora, CO.

Shannon Stiverson, “Extension of K-means and LBG Clustering to the Grassmannian.” SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences. August 2108. Minneapolis, MN.

Jessica Warren, “Interchangeable parts: Functional replacement of mitochondrial tRNAs.” The Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. August 2018. Montpellier, France.

Shaun Cross, “Characterizing the microbiota of wild Ixodes scapularis ticks.” American Society of Virology Annual Meeting. July 2018. College Park, MD.

Daniel Jonas, “Dynamical Systems Modeling of Tolerance to Infection.” Tutorial Workshop on Parameter Estimation for Biological Models. July 2018. Raleigh, NC.

Zach Fox, “Fisher Information for the Design of Single-Cell Experiments with Discrete Stochastic Models.” Annual meeting for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. July 2018. Portland, OR.

Reyes Murrieta, “Impact of Extrinsic Incubation Temperature on Zika Virus Population Diversity in Aedes Mosquitoes.” American Society for Virology 37th Annual Meeting. July 2018. College Park, MD.

Adam Heck, “Regulation of neural differentiation through mRNA methylation in stem cells.” FASEB: Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression: Mechanisms of RNA Decay. June 2018. Scottsdale, AZ.

Seré Williams, “Functional Analysis of a Transcription Factor in Drought Stress in Rice.” Salt and Water Stress in Plants – Gordon Research Conference. June 2018. Waterville Valley, NH.

Ian McLean, Luke Schwerdtfeger, Caleb Begly, & Alec Richardson.,”Microfluidic Organotypic System for the Analysis of Intestinal Tissue Ex Vivo.” Metabolism of Infectious Diseases Conference. June 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Bridget Eklund, “Mucosal Immune Recogniton of Recombinant Lactobacillus acidophilus and the Effect on the Microbiome Community Structure.” American Society for Microbiology Microbe Meeting. June 2018. Atlanta, GA.

Mike Mangalea, “The NarX/NarL Nitrate-Sensing Two-Component System Regulates Biofilm Dynamics in Burkholderia pseudomallei.” Metabolism of Infectious Diseases Symposium. June 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Mike Mangalea, “The NarX/NarL Nitrate-Sensing Two-Component System Regulates Biofilm Dynamics in Burkholderia pseudomallei.” American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2018. June 2018. Atlanta, GA.

Luke Schwerdtfeger, “Microfluidic organotypic system for the analysis of intestinal tissue ex vivo.” The Metabolism of Infectious Diseases Conference, June 2018. Fort Collins, CO.

Shaun Cross, “Characterizing the microbiota of wild Ixodes scapularis ticks.” The Intermountain, Rio Grande, and Rocky Mountain ASM TriBranch Meeting, April 2018. Durango, CO.

Charlotte Cialek, “Visualizing microRNA/Argonaute Mediated Gene Silencing in Real Time.” The Royal Society Scientific Meeting, March 2018. Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Zach Fox, “Designing Single-Cell Experiments with Discrete Stochastic Models.” Biophysical Society Meeting. February 2018. San Francisco, CA.

Alex Mauro, “The role of plasticity in adaptation to an introduced environment.” Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, February 2018, Fort Collins, CO.

Alex Mauro, “Plasticity’s Role in Adaptation to a Novel Environment.” Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 2018, San Francisco, CA.

Lyndsey Gray, “Commercial aerosolized insecticides can serve as a strong selection force for pyrethroid-resistance in aedes aegypti.” American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference, November 2017, Baltimore, MD.

Reyes Murrieta, “Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature on Zika virus population diversity in Aedes mosquitoes.” American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference, November 2017, Baltimore, MD.

Ian McLean, “3D-Printed microfluidic device for the analysis of intestinal tissue ex vivo.” Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2017, Phoenix, AZ.

Jasmine Nejad, “An Electrochemical Biosensor System for Chemical Imaging of Live Biological Samples with High Spatiotemporal Resolution.” Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2017, Phoenix, AZ.

Julia Labadie, “Chronic inflammation and T zone lymphoma: a case-control study of aged Golden Retrievers.” Veterinary Cancer Society Conference, October 2017, Portland, OR.

Kate Huebner, “The liver abscess microbiome in natural-branded, Colorado beef cattle.” American Society for Microbiologists Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines, October 2017, Washington D.C..

Zach Fox, “Using Stochastic Models to Design Single-Cell Experiments.” Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2017, Phoenix AZ.

Shaun Cross, “Characterization of a Novel Virus in Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae.” Rocky Mountain Virology Conference, September 2017, Bellevue, CO.

Bridget Eklund, “Mucosal Immune Recognition of Recombinant Lactobacillus acidophilus and the Effect on the Microbial Community Structure.” Colorado Clinical & Transnational Sciences Institute Summit V, August 2017,  Denver, CO.

Julia Labadie, “A hypothesis for canine T zone lymphoma: the role of hyaluronan and hypothyroidism.” Aspen Cancer Conference. July 2017. Aspen, CO.

Zach Fox & Michael May, “Using stochastic models to extend the color palette for single-molecule microscopy.” q-bio Conference, July 2017, New Brunswick, NJ.

Zach Fox & Michael May, “Model-driven Design of Single-Cell Experiments.” q-bio Conference, July 2017, New Brunswick, NJ.

Nadia Sampaio, “Genome-wide mapping of genomic regions contributing to industrially relevant traits in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrid diploid.” Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Biology, July 2017, Stowe, VT.

Nadia Sampaio, “Analysis of systemic genomic instability in heterozygous yeast diploids.” Faseb Conference on Genetic Recombination and genome rearrangements, July 2017, Steamboat Springs, CO.

Adam Heck, “Modulation of mRNA stability through RNA methylation in stem cells.” RNA Society, June 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.

Dylan Parker, “The subcellular localization of asymmetrically distributed mRNA transcripts during Caenorhabditis elegans early embryogenesis.” International C. elegans Meeting, June 2017,  Los Angeles, CA.

Mike Mangalea, “Nitrate sensing is linked to biofilm inhibition in the saprophytic bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei.” American Society for Microbiology Microbe. June 2017, New Orleans, LA.

Jessie Filer, “A Nuclease Protection Assay For Colorimetric and Electrochemical Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids.” American Society for Virology, June 2017, Madison, WI.

Reyes Murrieta, “Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature on Zika virus population diversity in Aedes mosquitoes.” American Society for Virology, June 2017, Madison, WI.

Reyes Murrieta, “Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature on Zika virus population diversity in Aedes mosquitoes.” Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science in Arbovirology: III FAMERP-UTMB Meeting, June 2017, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil.

Julia Labadie, A HYpothesis for canine T zone lymphoma: the role of HYaluronan and HYpothyroidism. 9th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics, May 2017, Saint Paul, MN.

Mike Mangalea, “Nitrate sensing is linked to biofilm inhibition in the saprophytic bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei.” American Society for Microbiology Rocky Mountain Branch Meeting. Centennial, CO. April 2017.

Zachary Fox, “Systematic Integration of Single-Cell Experiments and Discrete Stochastic Models.” Gordon Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology, January 2017, Ventura, CA.

Zachary Fox, “The Finite State Projection based Fisher Information Matrix for the Design of Single-Cell Experiments.” Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, December 2016, Aspen, CO.

Reyes A. Murrieta, “Impact of extrinsic incubation temperature on Zika virus population diversity in Aedes mosquitoes.” American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, November 2016, Atlanta, GA; Rocky Mountain Virology Club, September 2016, Bellvue, Colorado.

Mike Mangalea, “Breaking Biofilms: Nitrate Inhibits Biofilm Formation in Burkholderia Pseudomallei.” 8th World Melioidosis Congress 2016, August 2016, Cebu, Philippines.

Jessica Warren, “Mitochondrial tRNA gene loss in the Angiosperm Family Caryophyllaceae.” The Evolution Conference, June 2016, Austin, TX.

Adam Heck, Jeff Wilusz and Carol Wilusz, “Characterizing the role of a methyl-specific RNA binding protein in pluripotency.” New Mexico BioInformatics, Science and Technology (NMBIST) Symposium, March 2016.

Feeny, R. M.; Wydallis, J. B.; Tedjo, W.; Yang, L.; Willett, S.; Chen, T.; Tobet, S. A.; Henry, C. S. “High-Density Microelectrode Arrays as Electrochemical Imaging Platforms.” Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Atlanta, GA, March 2016.

Grover A, Henao-Tamayo M, Ackart F, Verma D, Hill E, Venter K, Stoltz A, Mphahlele M, Van Der Walt ML, Dharmadhikari AS, Nardell E, Basaraba RJ, Orme I, Ordway D. “BCG Efficacy in Guinea Pigs Naturally Exposed to Patients with Tuberculosis.” The Union TB Meeting, February 2016, Denver, CO.

Stacy Willett and Stu Tobet, “Characterization of ex vivo Health of MB231 and MCF7 Human Breast Cancer Xenograft Tumors in Mice.” Biomedical Engineering Society, October 2015, Tampa, FL.

Labadie, JD, J Yoshimoto, JL Peel, AC Avery. “Chronic skin disorders and risk of T zone lymphoma: using dogs to understand human disease.” Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, June 2015, Denver, CO.

Labadie, JD, I Elvers, J Yoshimoto, J Dossey, AC Avery. “Hyaluronidase genes associated with risk for canine T zone lymphoma.” American Society of Hematology Meeting on Lymphoma Biology. June 2015. Colorado Springs, CO.

Hill E, Verma D, Arnett K, Blackledge MS, Lenaerts A, Melander C, Ordway DJ. “Reversal of Nontuberculosis Mycobacterial Phenotypic Antimicrobial Resistance Using Biofilm Inhibitors.” Rocky Mountain Branch Meeting of American Society for Microbiology, 2015, Lakewood, CO.

Zachary Fox and Brian Munsky, “The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecules to Cells.” workshop at the Telluride Science Research Center, 2015, Telluride, CO.