ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM, Kansas City, November 13 to 15, 2009
www.ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2009
Hotel Room Block Reservation Deadline is Friday, October 23.
Abstract Deadline for posters is Saturday, October 31.
It's not too late. You can still register to attend and submit a poster
abstract for presentation at the:
7th ANNUAL ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM
November 13 to 15, 2009
Kansas City, Downtown Marriott Hotel
HOTEL RESERVATIONS: The Muehlebach/Marriott Hotel in downtown Kansas City
has reserved a block of rooms for symposium participants at a discounted
rate. Call 1-800-810-0850 on or before Friday, October 23, or book online
at http://ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2009/hotel.html.
POSTER ABSTRACTS: Abstract submission guidelines for submitting your poster
abstract are available at:
http://ecogen.ksu.edu/downloads/AbstractGuidelines.pdf. Poster sessions
will be held on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Poster topics should
be related to the field of Ecological Genomics.
PLENARY SPEAKER:
Jonathan F. Wendel, Iowa State University, "Genes, jeans, and genomes:
Exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton"
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
+Andres Aguilar, University of California-Merced, "Genomic differentiation
and adaptive divergence in rockfish (genus Sebastes)"
+May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Cytochrome
P450 genes in plant-insect interactions: War and peace?"
+Jeffrey L. Feder, University of Notre Dame, "Sympatric speciation in
Rhagoletis: Islands of speciation or genomic continents of divergence?"
+David C. Queller, Rice University, "The selfish gene at the genetic level:
Cooperation and cheating in social amoebas"
+Matthew Rockman, New York University, "Causes of heritable variation in C.
elegans"
+Erica Bree Rosenblum, University of Idaho, "The genetics of adaptation
during convergent ecological speciation"
+Jay F. Storz, University of Nebraska, "Genetics of high-altitude
adaptation: Lessons from deer mouse hemoglobins"
+Chris Toomajian, Kansas State University, "Flowering-time genes as genomic
targets of selection in Arabidopsis thaliana"
+Michael J. Wade, Indiana University, "The evolutionary genetics of
spatially and temporally plastic phenotypes"
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: The Ecological Genomics Symposium will convene in the
historic Muehlebach/Marriott Hotel in downtown Kansas City Friday evening at
6:00 p.m. and conclude on Sunday at noon. For a complete schedule, please
visit our Symposium website, http://ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2009.
DEADLINES:
10/23/09 Reserve your Hotel Room to receive reduced group rate.
10/31/09 Poster Abstracts are due if NOT being considered for oral
presentation.
SPONSORS:
Kansas State University Targeted Excellence
National Science Foundation
JMP Genomics
INFORMATION will be posted on our website, www.ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2009, as
details are finalized.
We have an outstanding lineup of speakers for the 2009 Symposium and we
encourage you to attend! Please share this announcement with colleagues and
students. If you have questions, please contact us at (785) 532-3482 or
[email protected].
Symposium Organizing Committee:
Michael Herman, Co-Chair, Biology
Loretta Johnson, Co-Chair, Biology
Ted Morgan, Biology
Tim Todd, Plant Pathology
Kun Yan Zhu, Entomology
Lindsey Fallis, Graduate Student Rep, Biology
Doris R. Merrill, [email protected]
Program Coordinator
ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS INSTITUTE
Kansas State University
Biology, 104 Ackert Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-4901
(785) 532-3482, www.ecogen.ksu.edu <http://www.ecogen.ksu.edu/>
