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Two important things to note about the forthcoming conference on the HapMap and its applications.
1) NHGRI is making travel awards for young investigators, and
2) The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 28,2005
The conference announcement and details regarding travel awards follow below for ease of reference.
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Conference: Genomic Studies and the HapMap University of Oxford, UK
March 15-18, 2005
The deadline for submitting an abstract is January 28, 2005.
The deadline for registration/lodging reservations is February 25, 2005.
By March 2005, Phase I of the HapMap (600,000 common SNPs typed in 270 individuals) will be complete and Phase II (an additional 3-4M SNPs in the same samples) will be well underway. But there remain many unresolved questions about how best to utilize this information in genetic research. This conference will be hosted by the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, and supported in part by the Wellcome Trust, and its primary focus will be the use of the HapMap resource in genomic studies: human disease studies, and other population genetic and evolutionary analyses.
"Genomic Studies and the HapMap" will provide an important opportunity for a diverse community of investigators-those involved directly in the International HapMap Project, those in the broader analysis community, and those whose focus is disease studies-to come together to define and discuss a range of issues related to the use of the HapMap resource. It will also provide up-to-date assessments of the progress and results from the project. Invited speakers from outside the HapMap project include Andy Clarke, David Clayton, David Cox, Mark McCarthy, Rasmus Nielsen, Jonathan Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, and Simon Tavaré. This conference follows a successful meeting held in the spring of 2004, which brought together well over 100 participants interested in methods and analysis related to the International Haplotype Map Project.
The National Human Genome Research Institute is providing travel awards of $750 to up to 13 young investigators from U.S. institutions (defined as completion of doctoral training within the last 6 years). U.S. citizenship is not a requirement. Qualified persons requesting consideration for a travel award must submit the following items to [log in to unmask], no later than January 28:
1) current CV
2) formatted abstract (please refer to the abstract submission guidelines on the conference Web site)
3) conference registration and lodging form (please refer to the registration page on the conference Web site, and note that your credit card will not be billed until early March)
Awards will be made based on the research submitted in the abstract and the academic promise of the candidate with some priority given to applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and applicants with disabilities. Submitted material will be reviewed, and funding decisions made, by the conference programme committee.
Complete instructions for abstract submission and registration, and further details of the conference, can be found at the conference Web ite, www.hapmap.org/oxford_conference/default.html.
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