50th Annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics

The 2009 draft Course Schedule (.pdf) is available for download. Please note that this is in draft form and speakers and dates may change.

The last day of the course will be a special 50th Anniversary Scientific Symposium focused on the future of genetics in science. Registration information will be posted when available. The draft Sympsoium Schedule (.pdf) is available for download. Please note that this is in draft form and speakers and dates may change. Please note CME credits are not available for this one-day symposium.

Goncalo R. Abecasis, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Stylianos E. Antonarakis, M.D., Ph.D., University of Geneva Medical School
David J. Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Mary Armanios, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lawrence C. Brody, Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute
Carol Bult, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gary Churchill, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Garry R. Cutting, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Harry C. Dietz, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Leah Rae Donahue, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D., HHMI & University of Washington
Jonathin Flint, MRCPsych, CCST, Oxford University
Clair A. Francomano, M.D., Harvey Institute for Human Genetics
Ada Hamosh, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Katherine A. High, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Steven M. Holland, MD, National Institutes of Health
Kathy Hudson, Ph.D., Johns HOpkins University
Ethylin Wang Jabs, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Laird G. Jackson, M.D., Drexel University College of Medicine
Benjamin L. King, B.S., The Jackson Laboratory
David H. Ledbetter, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine
Christa Lese Martin, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine
Andrew McCallion, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Roderick McInnes, M.D., Ph.D., The Hopsital for Sick Children
Joshua T. Mendell, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jeffrey C Murray, M.D., University of Iowa
Juergen Naggert, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Patsy Nishina, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Robert Nussbaum, M.D., University of California - San Francisco
Kenneth Paigen, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
John A. Phillips, III, M.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Jennifer Puck, M.D., University of California - San Francisco
Philip R. Reilly, M.D., J.D., Interleukin Genetics, Inc.
Thomas H. Roderick, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Derry C. Roopenian, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Lucy B. Rowe, B.A., The Jackson Laboratory
Edward Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Serreze, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
Lindsay S. Shopland, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory/University of Maine
Paul Szauter, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory
David Valle, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Marc Vidal, Ph.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California - Irvine
Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D., May Clinic
John R. Yates, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute

Application Deadline is April 1, 2009. Placement is limited to 135 participants so early application is advised. 

To apply for this event, please:

- Complete the online application form (opens a new window) 
  If you have any problems with this form, please contact Erin McDevitt at 207-288-6659

- Send a brief curriculum vitae, 2 page maximum by email attachment to Erin McDevitt;

- Have your  mentor or supervisor send a letter of recommendation via email to Erin McDevitt (this step is only required if you do not hold a doctoral degree).

General scholarships 
Available on a limited basis to help pre- and post-doctoral students with travel expenses. To help ensure adequate representation by under-represented populations in the life sciences, gender and minority status will be considered.

Additional travel awards from National Institute of Drug Abuse
If you are preparing for, or have already entered, a career in Addiction Genetics, the National Insitute of Drug Abuse is awarding 10 travel scholarships.  Applicants eligible to apply for this travel award are graduate students and post-docs who are supported by NIDA or are currently seeking support from NIDA and who are seeking a new direction in their research program to employ genetics methodologies.

To apply for scholarship/travel award:
Please email a letter of request including financial need with your application. Scholarship requests must be accompanied by a letter of support from the applicant's advisor and an abstract for the poster session. If applying for the NIDA travel award, you must include a description of how you will use this course to advance your career in the field of addiction genetics and which NIDA grant is supporting your research or whether a NIDA application is pending.

Applications by women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.

Accepted applicants will be provided with registration information.

Cancellation Policy: In order to receive a refund, your signed notice of cancellation must be received in writing (by post, email or fax) 30 calendar days prior to the meeting.  No refunds will be granted after that date. Should it be necessary to cancel the event, The Jackson Laboratory will refund all registration fees paid; but is not responsible for any airfare, hotel or other associated costs incurred by participants.