Daphnia Genomics Consortium - Meeting 2006
January 17 through 19, 2006
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Conference Website:
http://conferences.cgb.indiana.edu/daphnia2006
This meeting of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium will be held on the
Bloomington campus of Indiana University. This gathering will commemorate the beginning of the long-term project of understanding the structure and biology of the newly sequenced Daphnia genome and will map out future research directions.
The meeting will bring together an interdisciplinary group of
distinguished researchers. The prospects for utilizing the Daphnia genome are vast: members of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium use Daphnia as a model system across areas of biology including genetics, evolution, ecology, ecotoxicology, and aquatic biology. The release of the draft genome sequence will further thrust each of these research areas into the current age of genomics and will add the first crustacean to the growing list of characterized arthropod genomes.
There are opportunities for participants to present original research in
the form of talks or posters on recent studies in genomics or advances in genomic approaches, especially in relation to evolutionary ecology.
We invite interested researchers to attend, even if you are not (yet!) a
member of the Consortium. If other researchers have studies or techniques that will enhance our view of the possibilities in using Daphnia, we certainly encourage your participation.
IMPORTANT DATES:
November 1, 2005 - Registration opens (registration fee $125)
December 1, 2005 - last date for abstract submission; registration fee
increases to $150
Daphnia Genomics Consortium
http://daphnia.cgb.indiana.edu/