Biomedical Sciences Blog

You are invited to attend the Genetics 2010: Model Organisms to Human Biology meeting. The meeting will be held June 12-15, 2010 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, in Boston, Massachusetts.

On Saturday evening, June 12, the meeting will open with a plenary session at 7:00 pm followed by a Keynote Address by Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital from 9:15 pm until 10:00 pm. A social will be held immediately after the session from 10:00 pm until 11:30 pm. The meeting will end on Tuesday, June 15 at 1:00 pm.

Join researchers in exciting Boston, Massachusetts where you can:

• Listen to invited talks given by renowned genetic researchers

• Learn the most current scientific and technical advances in the hottest fields

• Participate in broad subject area sessions to stimulate new ideas that you can bring back to your lab and apply to your organism

• Network with potential collaborators at meals and evening mixers

• Submit your latest research in an abstract for inclusion as a platform or poster presentation
  

Keynote Speakers

• Jeremy Berg

  NIGMS/NIH

• Carol Greider

  The Johns Hopkins University

• Gary Ruvkun

  Harvard

  Massachusetts General Hospital
  

Organizing Co-chairs

• Fred Winston

  Harvard Medical School
  

• Scott Hawley

  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
  

Plenary Sessions

• Personal Genomics

• Cancer as a Genetic Disease

• Models of Disease

• Sex and Gene Expresssion

• Neurogenetics: From Synapses to Senescence

• Modern Approach to Pathogenesis and Infectious Disease

• Analyzing Genomes

• Organismal Architecture and Developmental Disabilities

• Stem Cells: The Genetics of Commitment

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