LAST DAY TO REGISTER: Friday, October 25, 2013
11th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium
November 1-3, 2013
Marriott Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO
Symposium website: http://ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013
The 11th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium will be held November 1-3,
2013 at the Marriott Country Club Plaza hotel in downtown Kansas City. The
meeting will convene Friday at 7:00 p.m. and conclude on Sunday at noon.
We have an outstanding lineup of speakers for the 2013 symposium and we
encourage you to attend!
For a brochure and complete information regarding poster abstract
submission, registration and hotel reservations, please visit our
symposium website: ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013.
REGISTRATION:
Please register online today at: www.ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013. You may
also register to attend the optional Saturday night banquet for an
additional fee of $50. Deadline for registration: Friday, October 25, 2013.
POSTER ABSTRACTS:
Poster topics should be related to the field of ecological genomics.
Instructions for submitting your abstract online
are at: http://ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013/abstract.html.
DEADLINE FOR POSSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
at 11:59 p.m. CDT.
VENUE: The symposium will take place at the Kansas City Marriott
on the beautiful Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
Reserve your hotel room online by visiting ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013 or
http://tinyurl.com/me8l5x2
The 2013 Ecological Genomics Symposium speakers are:
Anne Bronikowski, Iowa State University
Comparative genomics of vertebrate aging and stress-response pathways
Asher Cutter, University of Toronto
Hyperdiversity and hypodiversity in genome evolution of Caenorhabditis
nematodes
Ana L. Caicedo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Convergence and the evolution of weediness: The case for red rice
Rob Knight, University of Colorado
The Earth Microbiome Project
Marcus Kronforst, University of Chicago
Population genomics and ecological speciation in Heliconius butterflies
Bradley J.S.C. Olson
Peering into the pond for clues to multicellularity
Michael Pfrender, University of Notre Dame
Genetic and regulatory basis of adaptation in stressful environments
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California Davis
Evolutionary genetics of highland adaptation in maize and teosinte
Annelie Wendeberg, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Population-targeted metagenomics of anaerobic methane-oxidizing consortia
Andrew Whitehead, University of California Davis
The genomics of evolved resistance and resilience in killifish resident
in dynamic and static environments
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION will be posted on our website,
www.ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2013, as details are finalized.
FUNDING for this symposium is provided by Kansas State University.
Ecological Genomics Institute Directors:
Dr. Loretta Johnson, [email protected]
Dr. Michael Herman, [email protected]
Kansas State University, Division of Biology
116 Ackert Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-4901
www.ecogen.ksu.edu
Ecological Genomics Institute Program Coordinator:
Alexandra Boyd, [email protected]
(785) 532-0115
Alexandra Boyd
Program Coordinator | Ecological Genomics Institute
302 Ackert Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-4901
(785) 532-0115 | [email protected]
