Deadlines:
- Deadline to Register at Early-Bird Rates: Tuesday, 10/13/09
- Deadline to submit Poster Abstract for oral presentation consideration: Tuesday, 10/13/09
- Deadline to reserve hotel room within room block: Friday, 10/23/09
Registration:
After October 13, we will continue to welcome your registration to attend the 7th Annual “Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes” Symposium at a slightly higher cost.
Poster abstracts:
Please note that if you wish to have your poster abstract considered for an oral presentation, the deadline for submission is Tuesday, October 13. Abstract submission guidelines for submitting your poster abstract are available at: www.ecogen.k-state.edu/symp2009.
Poster sessions will be held on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Poster topics should be related to the field of Ecological Genomics. A limited number of submitted poster abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.
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: Investigating the functional basis of phenotypic convergence”
- Jay F. Storz
University of Nebraska, “Genetics of high altitude adaptation in vertebrates”
- 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:
10/13/09 Registration deadline at early bird rates.
10/13/09 Poster Abstracts are due for oral presentation consideration.
10/23/09 Hotel Rooms must be reserved 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, 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 dmerrill@ksu.edu.
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