Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
May 8 - 12, 2012
The 2012 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 genomic approaches to ecological systems. 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. Confirmed Session Titles: High Throughput Genomics & Genetics Genetics of Complex Traits Functional and Cancer Genomics Computational Genomics Evolutionary Genomics Population Genomic Variation Genetics and Genomics of Non-Human Species ELSI Panel Session Moderator: to be announced Panelists: to be announced Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
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Invited Speakers:
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Keynote Speakers: Debbie Nickerson, University of Washington Susan Wessler, University of California Confirmed Session Chairs: Doris Bachtrog, University of California Berkeley Barak Cohen, Washington University School of Medicine Emmanouil Dermitzakis, University of Geneva Luis Herrera-Estrella, National Polytechnic Institute Simon Myers, Oxford University John Novembre, UCLA Duncan Odom, University of Cambridge Elaine Ostrander, National Human Genome Reseach Institute/NIH Lior Pachter, UC Berkeley Stephen Quake, Stanford and HHMI Paul Spellman, University of California, Berkeley Angelike Stathopoulos, California Institute of Technology Benjamin Voight, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Patricia Wittkopp, University of Michigan
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