PERSONAL GENOMES
September 14 - 17, 2009
Abstract Deadline: July 3, 2009

Organizers:
George Church, Harvard University
Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine

We are pleased to host the second meeting on Personal Genomes, which will begin at 7.30 pm on Monday, September 14, 2009 and conclude at lunch on Thursday, September 17.

This second meeting builds on last year’s presentations showing a significant milestone in human genetics - the first production of "personal genomes." Ultra high throughput sequencing strategies have now been used to study more individual genomes – and yet few scientists, and even fewer clinical geneticists, are familiar with the implications of this new data. This meeting will address the issues of individual genomes being part of research and routine clinical medicine within the next few years.

Topics Include:
Setting the Tone
Whole Genome Studies & Cancer
Genomes in Inherited Disease
Ethics
Scanning the Exome & Personal Transcriptomes
Data Analysis & Visualization Tools
Future Technologies for Personal Genomics

Keynote Speakers:
C. Thomas Caskey, UT Health Science Center of Houston
Thomas Hudson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Invited Speakers:
Misha Angrist, Duke University
Leslie Biesecker, NIH/NHGRI
Steven Brenner, University of California, Berkeley
Lynda Chin, Harvard Medical School
Richard Lifton, Yale University School of Medicine
Amy McGuire, Baylor College of Medicine
Patrice Milos, Helicos BioSciences
Chad Nusbaum, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Steven Quake, Stanford University
Philip Reilly, Third Rock Ventures.
Jay Shendure, University of Washington
Lincoln Stein, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Steven Turner, Pacific BioSciences, Inc.

Abstracts are welcome for consideration as poster and platform presentations and should contain new and unpublished material. Status (talk/vs. 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 scientists 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 meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor in September.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by: Roche - 454 Sequencing and Illumina

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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.