First Symposium ~ July 14, 2005

Lecture Hall I, Schurman Hall
10:00am – 5:30pm

Our thanks to everyone who attended the very successful first CVG symposium, which included a poster session with over twenty posters and a banquet.

Guest Speakers

• Dr. Lorraine Flaherty, Wadsworth Center
  Understanding the genetics of behavior. The mouse as a model system.
• Dr. Harold “Skip” Garner, Jr., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Directed discovery: Linking polymorphism to phenotype
• Dr. Michel Georges, Universitè de Liëge
  Epigenetic lessons from livestock: unraveling the molecular basis of polar overdominance at the ovine callipyge locus.
• Dr. Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania
  Maternal control of vertebrate development: molecular-genetics from the zebrafish
• Dr. Len A. Pennacchio, Joint Genome Institute
  Exploiting Comparative Genomics for Insights into Human Biology