1. General Guidelines
2. Guidance for Panelists
3. Guidance for Critics
4. Schedule of Presentations

A. General Guidelines (see Logistics of the Symposium for further advice)

• Where: Oliver Hall Room 2122 (see map)
   
• Day: Thursday, Apr 30
   
• Time: We will likely have no time to spare, so presentations will start promptly at 1:00 PM. See schedule for times of specific presentations. Presenters should be in the room at least 5-10 minutes before the time of their presentations. Non-presenters (and the general public) are welcome at any time. Please do not enter the room while a presentation is in progress.
   
• Duration of presentation: Up to eight minutes and no more. At seven minutes, you'll hear a courteous tinkle of a bell. At eight minutes, a bone-shaking clang will stop your presentation if it has not already concluded. If you're in the middle of a sentence, you'll be permitted to complete the sentence (with no more than one conjunction), but that's it.
   
• Duration of question and answer period: Up to four minutes, marked by a bell. The lead critic will ask the first question, followed by the secondary critic, and then by anyone else who wants to join in.
   
• Loading presentations: There won't be time to download your presentation. It must be on the computer before the panels begin. This can be done in either of two ways, and only these two ways:
   
  • E-mail your presentation to me before 11:30 AM the day of the presentation
  • (or, 2nd best) Bring your presentation on a memory device by 12:40 PM. Do not expect to download it from your e-mail or upload it on the spot from your memory device.
     

B. Guidance for Presenters

• See How to prepare a presentation on your work for general advice.
• Do not be concerned that you haven't gotten as far in your project as you would like. Tell an interesting, result-laden part of your story.

C. Guidance for Critics

• See How to critique others' presentations for general advice.
• Throughout ask yourself whether you have been shown actual results and the means by which they were obtained, all in the service of answering an interesting question.
• Include comments on both the written proposal and the presentation.
• Return critiques to your subject, copying me and Nick, by Monday, May 4.
• E-mail addressess are available through the Who We Are page.

D. Schedule of Presentations   (presentation links will become active Thursday, Apr 30)

Start	Presenter	Proposal draft	Critics
1:03	William Mitchell	Tryptophan regulation by the formation of structures in bacteria (Presentation)	Akhil Garg Jordan Davis
1:16	EJ Kochis	Proposed regulatory sequence that influences transcription of the carboxylase gene in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Presentation)	Megan Mair Farrah Hermes
1:29	Amanda Rutledge	Origins and clustered repeats in E. coli (Presentation)	William Mitchell Akhil Garg
1:42	Jordan Davis	Short dispersed palindromic repeats within Yersinia bacteriophages (Presentation)	Farrah Hermes Amanda Rutledge
1:55	Akhil Garg	Characterization of a 15-nucleotide repeat in subcluster A3 mycobacteriophages (Presentation)	EJ Kochis Rachel Siefring
2:08	Nav Saini	Consensus short dispersed repeats sequences in E. coli near important genes (Presentation)	Jordan Davis William Mitchell
2:21	Megan Mair	Conserved repetitive sequences within mycobacteriophage Giles suggest illegitimate recombination events between phage and bacteria (Presentation)	Rachel Siefring Nav Saini
2:34	Liam Lewis	Position of HIP-1 (Highly Iterated Palindrome-1) in cyanobacteria around DNA methylase loci (Presentation)	Nav Saini EJ Kochise
2:47	Farrah Hermes	Competence levels of very short dispersed repeats (Presentation)	Liam Lewis Megan Mair
3:00	Rachel Siefring	Search for CRISPR sites in specific Staphylococcus bacteriophages (Presentation)	Amanda Rutledge Liam Lewis
3:13	Mazin Elsarrag	Analysis DNA uptake sequences in pathogenic species of the Haemophilus genus (Presentation)	Kireet Kundavaram
3:26	Ramey Elsarrag	Identification of tandem repeats in Geobacillus and Heamophilious Phages (Presentation)
3:39	Kireet Kundavaram	Analysis of specific tandem repeats across an array of cyanobacteria (Presentation)	Mazin Elsarrag