May 23, 2002
Genome Sciences symposium brings speakers on genetic variation
The first symposium presented by the School of Medicine’s Department of Genome Sciences is set for 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 29, in Hogness Auditorium. Several speakers will be coming from other institutions to make presentations on the general topic “Genetic Variation in Disease and Development.”
The symposium is free and open to everyone.
The Department of Genome Sciences was organized last fall with a merger between the Department of Genetics, which had been within the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biotechnology. Chair of the new Department of Genome Sciences is Dr. Stan Fields, professor of genome sciences and of medicine.
Speakers and topics scheduled for the May 29 symposium are:
- Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco: “Genes and Cells that Regulate the Lifespan of C. elegans”
- Dr. Leonid Kruglyak, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: “What Will It Take to Carry Out Whole-Genome Association Studies in Humans?”
- Dr. Bradley Merrill, University of Chicago: “Cell Fate Decisions of the Stem Cell Lineage in the Skin”
- Dr. Joseph Nadeau, Case Western Reserve University: “Building Hearts, Getting Fat, and Breaking Bones: Computational Analysis of Component Traits in Genetically Randomized Populations”
- Dr. Svante Paabo, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany : “An Ape Perspective on Human Uniqueness”
- Dr. Leena Peltonen, University of California, Los Angeles: “Tracking Rare and Common Disease Genes Using Isolated Populations”
- Dr. George Weinstock, Baylor College of Medicine: “Genomania from Microbes to Mammals”
For more information on the symposium, contact Gretchen Smith at 543-4968.
