First Annual Symposium

Poster 2005

July 14th, 2005

Our thanks to everyone who attended the very successful first CVG symposium.

Events

LECTURE: Dr. Lorraine Flaherty, Wadsworth Center
"Understanding the genetics of behavior. The mouse as a model system."

LECTURE: Dr. Harold "Skip" Garner, Jr., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Directed discovery: Linking polymorphism to phenotype"

LECTURE: Dr. Michel Georges, Université de Liège
"Epigenetic lessons from livestock: unraveling the molecular basis of polar overdominance at the ovine callipyge locus."

LECTURE: Dr. Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania
"Maternal control of vertebrate development: molecular-genetics from the zebrafish"

LECTURE: Dr. Len A. Pennacchio, Joint Genome Institute
"Exploiting Comparative Genomics for Insights into Human Biology"

BANQUET: Congratulations to the winners of the poster contest, which included over twenty poster presentations.

  • 1st Place: Rebecca Holmes
  • 2nd Place: Eric Williams
  • 3rd Place: Maegan Rivard Harden