PERSONAL GENOMES
September 10 - 12, 2010
Abstract Deadline: June 18, 2010

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 third meeting on Personal Genomes, which will begin in the morning (9am) on Friday, September 10, 2010 and conclude in the late afternoon of Sunday September 12.

The first two conferences have spanned a significant milestone in human genetics - the appearance of individual, or personal, human genomes, and rough speculation suggests that as many as 1,000 full human genomes will be completed by fall 2010. 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:

Invited Speakers:

Abstracts are welcome for consideration as poster and platform presentations and should contain new and unpublished material.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.