DAY 1:
Thursday, January 5 |
| 2:00 PM |
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10:00 PM |
Registration |
| 3:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
| Session: |
Growth, Differentiation and Cancer |
| Chairs: |
Steve Elledge, Harvard Univ.
Charles Sherr, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
| Speakers: |
Steve Elledge (Harvard): Genetic screens for growth and survival regulators in mammals
Vicki Lundblad (Salk): Replication and resection: regulating access to chromosome ends
Titia de Lange (Rockefeller): Telomeres & Telomerase: The beginning of the end
Iswar Hariharan (Berkeley): Genes that restrict growth and cell proliferation in Drosophila & humans
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| 5:45 PM |
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7:00 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:15 PM |
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8:00 PM |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paul Nurse |
| 8:15 PM |
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10:15 PM |
| Session: |
Stem cell genetics |
| Chairs: |
Judith Kimble, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Janet Rossant, Univ. of Toronto |
| Speakers: |
Judith Kimble (UW Madison): Regulation of germline stem cells in C. elegans
Janet Rossant (U of Toronto): Lineage decisions in the early mammalian embryo- implications for stem cell biology
Margaret Fuller (Stanford): Still in Eden: Male germ line stem cells in the niche maintain a centrosomal Eve
Liheng Li (Stowers Institute): Adult vertebrate stem cells: their niche and molecular regulation |
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| 10:00 PM |
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12:00 AM |
Reception |
DAY 2:
Friday, January 6 |
| 8:00 AM |
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10:00 AM |
| Session: |
Gene Interactions and Unraveling Complex Traits |
| Chairs: |
Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Chuck Langley, Univ. of California, Davis |
| Speakers: |
Aravinda Chakravarti (Johns Hopkins): Genetic dissection of a complex disease: Hirschsprungs disease
Allen Orr (Rochester): Genetic structure of speciation
Trudy Mackay (North Carolina State): The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits: Lessons From Drosophila
Peter Donnelly (University of Oxford): Fine-structure genetic maps and complex disease mapping
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| 10:30 AM |
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12:30 PM |
| Session: |
Comparative Genomics |
| Chairs: |
Maynard Olson, Univ. of Washington
Eric Green, NHGRI |
| Speakers: |
Eric Green (NHGRI): Deducing mammalian genome function by multi-species comparative sequencing
Bill Gelbart (Harvard): Comparative genome analysis of flies
David Kingsley (Stanford): Fishing for the secrets of vertebrate evolution
Richard Durbin (Sanger Inst.): Comparative genome analysis of worms |
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| 12:45 PM |
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2:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 3:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
| Session: |
Neurological diseases |
| Chairs: |
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Jeremy Berg, NIGMS |
| Speakers: |
Susan Lindquist (Whitehead/MIT): Yeast is a model system for complex problems in neurobiology
Li Hui Tsai (Harvard): Two tales of a kinase:Cdk5 in synaptic plasticity & neurodegeneration
Mario Capecchi (Utah): Modeling Neurological Disorders in the Mouse
Cynthia Kenyon (UCSF): Insulin/IGF-1 signaling and polyglutamine aggregation and toxicity in C. elegans |
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| 5:30 PM |
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6:45 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:00 PM |
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7:45 PM |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mary Claire King |
| 8:00 PM |
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10:00 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
DAY 3:
Saturday, January 7 |
| 8:00 AM |
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10:00 AM |
| Session: |
Technology |
| Chair: |
Stan Fields, Univ. of Washington |
| Speakers: |
George Church (Harvard): Genome synthesis and sequencing
Ron Davis (Stanford): New Genomic Technology for Yeast
Lee Hood (Institute for Systems Biology): Systems approaches to human disease
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| 10:00 AM |
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10:30 AM |
Break |
| 10:30 AM |
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12:30 PM |
| Session: |
New Insights in Epigenetic Phenomena |
| Chairs: |
Art Beaudet, Baylor College of Medicine
Barbara Meyer, Univ. of California, Berkeley |
| Speakers: |
Barbara Meyer (Berkeley): X chromosome-wide repression
Vicki Chandler (U Ariz.): Heritable Chromatin Structures are Established Through Trans-interactions Between Tandem Repeats
Steve Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr.): Epigenetic patterns generated by assembly of histone variants into nucleosomes
Art Beaudet (Baylor): Mouse models for the Prader-Willi/Angelman/autism imprinted domain |
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| 12:45 PM |
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2:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 2:00 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
| 4:30 PM |
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6:00 PM |
| Symposium: |
Comparative Developmental Biology |
| Chair: |
Allan Spradling, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| Speakers: |
Allan Spradling (Carnegie Institution): Stem cells as a paradigm for model organism research
Jonathan Bard (Univ of Edinburgh): Using bioinformatics to capture
tissue similarities across organisms
Utpal Banerjee (UCLA): Drosophila as a model for hematopoietic
development
Susan Dutcher (Washington Univ.): Genetic and genomic approaches with Chlamydomonas for understanding ciliary diseases in humans
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| 7:00 PM |
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8:30 PM |
Banquet |
| 8:30 PM |
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9:45 PM |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Sydney Brenner
Sponsored by Illumina. |
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DAY 4:
Sunday, January 8 |
Depart |
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