RAT GENOMICS & MODELS
December 6 – 9, 2007
Abstract Deadline: October 5, 2007
Organizers:
Timothy Aitman, Imperial College, London, UK
Norbert Hübner, Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine
Anne Kwitek, Medical College of Wisconsin
James Shull, University of Nebraska Medical Center
past program
You are cordially invited to participate in the fifth meeting on Rat Genomics & Models, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin with dinner and the first session on the evening of Thursday, December 6, and will conclude with lunch on Sunday, December 9, 2007. We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to rat genetics, genomics and physiology.
The format of the meeting will include six oral sessions consisting of invited and short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work. Oral presentations will be selected by the organizers from the submitted abstracts. The other submitted abstracts will be presented in poster session(s). As is usual at Cold Spring Harbor meetings, all abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book given to all the participants.
Keynote Speakers:
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine
New Initiatives in Rat Genomics
Allen Cowley, Jr. Medical College of Wisconsin
Integration of Rat Genetics and Physiology
Ewan Birney, Ensembl Project, European Bioinformatics Institute
Enhanced Tools for Comparative Genetics/Genomics Research
Topics, Chairs & Speakers
Neuroscience and Behavior
Jonathan Flint, Thomas Olsson
Cardiovascular Diseases
Anna Dominiczak, Norbert Hübner
Metabolism and Inflammation
Hella Markholst, Rikard Holmdahl
Tumor Biology
Jim Shull, Toshikazu Ushijima
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Howard J. Jacob, Roland Wolf
Informatics & Systems Biology
Anne Kwitek, Tim Aitman
Genome Resources
Tadao Serikawa, Edwin Cuppen
Manipulating the Rat Genome
Zsuzsanna Izsvak, John Mullins
Comparative Disease Genomics
Peter Harris, Todd Scheetz
Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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.
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to beavers@cshl.edu stating need for financial support – preference is given to those submitting abstracts.
We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in December.