Bioinformatics

An Interdepartmental Graduate Program

Graduate Recruitment Itinerary

January 30- February 1, 2019

Hotel Accommodation: UCLA Luskin Conference Center

Check-in time: 4:00pm 425 Westwood Plaza
Check-out time: 12:00pm Los Angeles, CA 90095

Any questions during your visit?

Please contact Student Affairs Officer Gene Gray 310-825-0068

Wednesday January 30, 2019

5:40pm Meet current students in Luskin hotel lobby

6pm Dinner and drinks at Roccos Tavern (downstairs).

Corner of Gayley/Weyburn.

Thursday January 31, 2019

Boyer Hall 159 (8am-3pm)

8:00AM Meet current students in the lobby of Luskin Conference Center

and walk to Boyer Hall.

8:15 – 8:45AM Check-In/Breakfast

8:45 – 8:55AM Welcome and overview of UCLA Bioinformatics

Grace Xiao, Program Director
Sriram Sankararaman, Admissions Committee

8:55 – 9:05AM Overview of Graduate Programs in Bioscience

Greg Payne, Director, GPB

9:05-9:15AM Overview of QCBio and the Collaboratory

Matteo Pellegrini, Director, QCBio Collaboratory

9:15-9:25AM Overview of the Curriculum

Jason Ernst, Curriculum Committee
9:25-9:35AM Overview of student advising
Kirk Lohmueller, Advising Committee

9:35-10:00AM Break

10:00-Noon Meetings with faculty in Boyer 159 (20 minutes each)

12:15-1:45PM Lunch and faculty research presentations

Jasmine Zhou, PhD

Non-invasive Diagnostics and Monitoring

Eric Deeds, PhD

Understanding Cellular Communication

Valerie Arboleda, MD PhD.

Multi-omics approaches in rare disease

Paivi Paiukanta, PhD

Integrative genomic approaches to identify genes and
molecular mechanisms for cardiometabolic disorders

Moderated by Bogdan Pasaniuc

2:00-3:00PM Meetings with faculty in Boyer 159 (20 minutes per meeting)

3:00-4:30PM Campus Tour: Institute for Digital Research and Education

5628 Math Sciences Building
https://idre.ucla.edu/idre-portal
Meet in Boyer 130

Hershey Hall Grand Salon

5:00-7:00PM Poster session, dinner and drinks

Friday February 1, 2018

• Note: check-out time is noon. The hotel can store bags until you need
to leave. Allow 30-60 mins to get from UCLA to LAX.

7.30AM-9AM For those staying at the Luskin, breakfast is provided in the

restaurant (“Plateia”). Please give the breakfast voucher
from your welcome packet to the hostess.

8:45AM Meet in the lobby of Luskin Conference Center.

9AM Bus to Santa Monica Promenade (weather permitting)

11.30AM Bus leaves Santa Monica to return to Luskin Conference

Center

Thank you for interviewing at UCLA! We hope you’ve enjoyed your time and felt the
recruitment experience was helpful in getting to know UCLA and our program.

Don’t forget to submit your receipts for reimbursement by Friday 2/22! Check your
welcome folder for instructions.

Travel tips:
Lyft/Uber pick-up location: UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center
For those departing from LAX: it can take 30-60 minutes from UCLA.

If you have any questions following the recruitment weekend please feel free to reach
out to me, gene@lifesci.ucla.edu. 310-825-0068.