The first symposium presented by the School of Medicine鈥檚 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 鈥淕enetic Variation in Disease and Development.鈥�
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鈥檚 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: 鈥淕enes and Cells that Regulate the Lifespan of C. elegans鈥�
- Dr. Leonid Kruglyak, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: 鈥淲hat Will It Take to Carry Out Whole-Genome Association Studies in Humans?鈥�
- Dr. Bradley Merrill, University of Chicago: 鈥淐ell Fate Decisions of the Stem Cell Lineage in the Skin鈥�
- Dr. Joseph Nadeau, Case Western Reserve University: 鈥淏uilding Hearts, Getting Fat, and Breaking Bones: Computational Analysis of Component Traits in Genetically Randomized Populations鈥�
- Dr. Svante Paabo, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany : 鈥淎n Ape Perspective on Human Uniqueness鈥�
- Dr. Leena Peltonen, University of California, Los Angeles: 鈥淭racking Rare and Common Disease Genes Using Isolated Populations鈥�
- Dr. George Weinstock, Baylor College of Medicine: 鈥淕enomania from Microbes to Mammals鈥�
For more information on the symposium, contact Gretchen Smith at 543-4968.