Chairperson: Joseph Machua

Stephan Engelbrecht - Towards a robust allele-specific expression pipeline for hardwood tree species from RNA-seq data.

Johnathan Bredenkamp - Using Hidden Markov Model profile comparisons to elucidate the origin of 7 transmembrane proteins in fungi.
Gina Shin - An Hfq knockout mutation in Pantoea ananatis.