Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
May 12 - 16, 2004
We are pleased to host the 17th annual meeting on genome science, now named The Biology of Genomes, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 and run through lunch on Sunday, May 16. Genome biologists are enjoying an unprecedented era of discovery since completion of the first eukaryote, S. cerevisiae in 1996, the first metazoan, C. elegans, in 1998, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, in 1999, the first plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, at the end of 2000. and culminating in the 2003 announcement of the completion of the sequencing of the human genome. Programs to sequence the zebrafish and the rat are underway. Diverse efforts exploiting genomic data from a variety of eukaryotic and prokaryoitic systems are providing profound biological insights and adding new dimensions to genome science and associated technologies and applications.The 2004 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics and complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression and plant genomics. Both technologies and applications will be emphasized. In addition there will be a special session on the ethical, legal and social implications of genome research. Sessions & Co-Chairs Comparative Genomics
Arend Sidow, Stanford University
Catherine Peichel, University of Washington Ecological Genomics
Edward DeLong, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
David Relman, Stanford University (tentative) Computational Genomics
Peer Bork, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Lior Pachter, University of California, Berkeley Genome Structure and Evolution
Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago
tba High Throughput Biology
Michael Snyder, Yale University
Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK Polymorphisms and their relationship to Biology
Kelly Frazer, Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
Juha Kere, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Variation Technology and Haplotypes Structures
David Altshuler, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Molly Przeworski, Brown University Annotation of Genomes
Daniel Rokhsar, DOE Joint Genome Institute Panel Session on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
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