RAT GENOMICS & MODELS
December 11 - 14, 2013
Abstract Deadline: September 27, 2013

Organizers:
Edwin Cuppen, Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands
Aron Geurts, Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael Gould, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bina Joe, University of Toledo

past program

You are cordially invited to participate in the eighth meeting on Rat Genomics & Models, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin with dinner and the first session on the evening of Wednesday, December 11, and will conclude with lunch on Saturday, December 14, 2013. We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to rat genetics, genomics and physiology.

The format of the meeting will include six oral sessions consisting of invited and short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work. Oral presentations will be selected by the organizers from the submitted abstracts. The other submitted abstracts will be presented in poster session(s). As is usual at Cold Spring Harbor meetings, all abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book given to all the participants.

KEYNOTE:
Ross Hardison, Pennsylvania State University

SESSIONS:
Neurobiology, Behavior and Addiction
Cardiovascular Diseases
Metabolism, Inflammation, Exercise Physiology
Tumor Biology
Genomics, Epigenetics and Integrative Biology
Emerging Technologies – Stem Cells and Genome Manipulation

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Timothy Aitman, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
Steven Britton, University of Michigan
Paul Flicek, EBI, Hinxton, UK
Howard Jacob, Medical College of Wisconsin
Percio Gulko, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Norbert Hubner, Max Delbruck Centrum for Molecular Medicine
Yasmine Hurd, Mount Sinai Hospital
Theodore Kurtz, University of California San Francisco
Anne Kwitek, University of Iowa
Mingyu Liang, Medical College of Wisconsin
Tomoji Mashimo, University of Kyoto, Japan
Abraham Palmer, University of Chicago
Andre Ramos, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
David Samuelson, University of Louisville
James Shull, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Boris Tabakoff, University of Colorado, Denver

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to Demetria Mudar (dmudar@cshl.edu) stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

All questions pertaining to registration, fees, housing, meals, transportation, visas, abstract submission or any other matters may be directed to Demetria Mudar (dmudar@cshl.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in December.

This conference may be supported in part by:
National Institutes of Health

EURATRANS meeting (Wed Dec 11, 9am-4pm)
Attending both EURATRANS and Rat meetings and require an early night's accommodation? Simply register for the Rat meeting and change the default check in date to 12/10/2013. A standard one night accommodation package will be added to your fees.

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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.