Melanie Colón Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Avian Model Systems March 5 - 8, 2014 Abstract Deadline: January 6, 2014 Registration opens October 1, 2013 Meeting Organizers: David Clayton, Queen Mary University of London, UK Rusty Lansford, Children's Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California Andrea Streit, Kings College London, UK Pre-Meeting Genomic Workshop (March 4-5) Workshop Organizers: EMBL-EBI and WTSI Tentative Workshop Program We are pleased to announce a Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Avian Model Systems which will begin on Wednesday evening, March 5 and end at noon on Saturday, March 8, 2014. The meeting will be preceeded by a 2-day Avian Genomics workshop run in collaboration with EMBL-EBI and WTSI, which will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday March 4 and end before dinner on Wednesday March 5, just prior to the start of the main meeting. Keynote Addresses: Dave Burt, Roslin Institute, UK Topics and Discussion Leaders: Avians as Models for Disease Angela Nieto & Stephanie White Bird Brains and Behavior Constance Scharff & Sarah London Evolution: A Bird’s Eye View Rich Schneider & Jerome Gros Birds for the Future: Models for Development Claudio Stern & Tatjana Sauka-Spengler Stem Cells from an Avian Perspective Mike McGrew & Bertrand Pain Where is the Value in Genomics? Wes Warren & & Brant Faircloth The Shape of Things to Come Ming Cheong & Paul Kulesa The format of the meeting will include seven oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts and posters. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend and we have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to Val Pakaluk (pakaluk@cshl.edu) stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts. For those planning to attend the workshop, add two extra night housing and please email Val Pakaluk (pakaluk@cshl.edu). This conference is supported in part by funds provided by: Pricing Academic Package $1100 Graduate/PhD Student Package $920 Corporate Package $1400 Academic/Student No-Housing Package $750 Corporate No-Housing Package $945 Workshop Pricing: 2-Day Workshop $250 (food & housing $470) To register for Workshop, please email Val Pakaluk (pakaluk@cshl.edu) Currency converter Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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