Daphnia Genomics Consortium (DGC) Meeting 2010
When: 26th through 30th of March, 2010
Where: Leuven, Belgium
Pre-registration and abstract submission is now open!
http://bio.kuleuven.be/DGCmeeting2010.html
Early registration and abstracts submission deadline is January 15, 2010.
Please register early, because space is limited to 120 participants.
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to invite you to the DGC Meeting 2010.
The Daphnia Genomics Consortium (DGC) is an international network of
scientists with a common goal to foster the freshwater crustacean
Daphnia as a premier model system for genomics in ecology, evolution
and the environmental sciences.
This meeting aims to bring together the members of the consortium at
large, to facilitate the exchange of information on recent developments
and results obtained from the ongoing investigations into the genome
biology of Daphnia. Additionally, we welcome researchers working with
Daphnia who are not yet DGC participants and researchers working with
other model or non-model organisms in the field of ecological genomics.
The DGC meeting will have a significant impact on the future
development of the research groups involved in the consortium. By
this time, we will have finalized our initial investigations of the
draft D. pulex genome sequence, and we will begin the work of
exploring data obtained from the D. magna genome sequencing project.
This upcoming meeting continues the tradition of also promoting
collaborations between researchers working within related
disciplines, including limnology, ecotoxicology, quantitative and
population genetics, systematics, molecular biology and evolution,
developmental biology, genomics and bioinformatics.
The meeting will have plenary lectures from keynote speakers in several
research fields related to Daphnia and other model organisms.
The symposia of our meeting will touch on several research topics:
* Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics
* Toxicology and Environmental Genomics of Natural and Human Stressors
* Genotype by Environment Interactions
* Comparative Genomics and Development
* Gene Expression and Gene Function
Plan to also learn about the latest open source bioinformatic and
high-throughput research tools, including databases, expression and
genotyping microarrays, mapping panels for trait locus mapping,
molecular genetic protocols and services.
The venue is at the five century-old Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in
Belgium. Leuven is a beautiful medieval town that combines a rich
historical patrimonium with a cheerful, flourishing city culture and a
creative atmosphere for lively exchanges and debates.
We look forward to welcoming you in Leuven.
The local organization committee (Luc De Meester, Luisa Orsini, Ellen
Decaestecker, Kevin Pauwels, Mieke Jansen, Joost Vanoverbeke) and the
co-organizers Dries Knapen, Ronny Blust and Wim De Coen (University
of Antwerp), Karel De Schamphelaere and Colin Janssen (University of
Gent), Michael Pfrender (University of Notre Dame) and John Colbourne
(Indiana University).
