Program and Organizing Committee
2024 KSEA West Gulf Coast Regional Conference
December 7th Sat., 2024
Location: Baylor College of Medicine, Albert B. Alkek building, N315, 6450 E Cullen St, Houston, TX 77030
Program
10:30 - 11:00 AM
11:00 - 11:15 AM
11:15 - 11:30 AM
Registration & Raffle ticket check in
Opening Remarks (Chair: Jung Hwan Kim, Ph.D.)
Jae Woong Choi PhD, President of KSEA-ST & Shell USA
Youngho Jung, Consul General of Korea in Houston
Ice Breaking - giveaway gift (Raffle 3rd Place)
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Keynote lecture (Chair: Crystal Shin, Ph.D.)
Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Title: Multi-omic Approaches in the Age of Precision Medicine
Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics
Director, Skeletal Dysplasia Clinic
Director, Center for Skeletal Medic
12:30 - 1:00 PM
12:45 - 1:45 PM
1:45 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM
3:00 - 3:05 PM
3:05 - 4:20 PM
4:20 - 4:30 PM
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Lunch
Trainee Poster Presentation
Ice Breaking - giveaway gift (Raffle 2nd & 3rd Place)
Selected Trainee Research Presentation
Six selected speakers (8-mins talk and 2-mins Q&A)
1st place: $300, 2nd place: $200, 3rd place: $100, and three honorable mentions: $50
Coffee break
Invited Faculty Research Presentation
Ju-Seog Lee, PhD (systems biology)
Professor at MD Anderson
Ryang Hwa Lee PhD (cell biology and genetics)
Associate Professor at Texas A&M University
Jian Cao, PhD (statistics and machine learning)
Assistant Professor at University of Houston
Award, Closing Remarks (Chair: Jung Hwan Kim, Ph.D.)
(Raffle 1st, 2nd and 3rd place)
Happy Hour (Kirby Ice House, 3333 Eastside St, Houston)
Raffle prizes
1st place (1 recipients): Apple iPad (10th Generation) 10.9-inch Liquid Retina Display
2nd place (2 recipients): Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ Tablet 11-inch
3rd place (3 recipients): SONY noise cancelling wireless headphone
Organizing Committee
Conference Chair
KSEA South Texas
Jung Hwan Kim, Ph.D.
Jae Woong Choi, Ph.D., Jong Min Choi, Ph.D., Hyuntaek Oh, Ph.D., Seon Young Kim, Jeong Min Park, Ph.D., Crystal Shin, Ph.D., Goo Jun, Ph.D., Jihyun Park, Yeunjung Ko, Hyungseon Jeon, Ph.D., Matt Kweon, Ph.D., Gab Seok Kim, Ph.D., Kyoungin Kim, Ph.D., Euijin Yang, Ph.D.