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 <http://www.galveston.com/> 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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