Registration is open for the 2009 Gordon Conference on Quantitative
Genetics and Genomics.
https://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=8785
After 11 amazing past conferences on the California Coast, the next
Gordon Conference will be held in February 2009 (off-season for
hurricanes!) on beautiful Galveston Island along the Gulf of Mexico.
Our conference will kick off on Sunday evening February 22 with a
"where have we been, where are we going" perspective from Bill Beavis
(Iowa State University), followed by our keynote lecture from Oliver
Smithies (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill), recipient of
the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The conference will include sessions on "New" Sources of Genetic
Variation (e.g. copy number variation, RNAs), Non-Mendelian
Inheritance (including trans-generational epigenetics), G x E
Interactions (when the E's have their own G's), Statistical
Genetics/Genomics, Genetic Basis of Phenotypic Evolution, GWAS,
Architecture of Genome Sequence (and what we are learning from it),
and Marker-Assisted Breeding in Agriculture (including "developing"
countries).
The final program is nearing completion, and there are just a few last
speakers to confirm. In the meantime, a partial list of speakers
includes Carlos Bustamante (Cornell), Jenny Graves (The Australian
National University), Richard Jorgensen (Arizona), Philipp Kapranov
(Affymetrix), Loeske Kruuk (Edinburgh), Charles Lee (Harvard), Ruth
Ley (Cornell), Theo Meuwissen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences),
Minoo Rassoulzadegan (University of Nice), Fernando Pardo Manuel de
Villena (UNC), Jean-Marcel Ribaut (CIMMYT), Paul VanRaden (USDA), Nik
Schork (Scripps), Tom Whitman (Northern Arizona) and Trisha Wittkopp
(Michigan).
As always, registrants are encouraged to present posters at the
meeting. The evening poster sessions are often the most educational
(and most fun) parts of the conference.
In addition to support from the Gordon Research Conferences, we are
extremely grateful for financial contributions from the following
sponsors: Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred, SAS/JMP, PIC, Mars Symbioscience,
Aviagen, Illumina, and GeneSeek. We are still seeking additional
sponsorships, if your organization/company might be interested, please
contact me.
See you in Galveston,
Daniel Pomp ([log in to unmask]), Chair
Peter Visscher ([log in to unmask]), Vice-Chair
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