Symposium

 

The Genetics Program offers an annual symposium; usually based on the topic of one of the Genetics 800 seminar courses offered that year. Five or six nationally prominent researchers in the topic of study are brought to campus for a one day event.

 

Genetics Graduate Program at MSU
presents a symposium on

Genetics Graduate Program and

Plant Breeding and Genetics

Present a symposium on

Next Generation Genetics

On

December 11, 2009

 

This on-day Symposium highlights next-generation genomics technologies and novel genetic approaches developed to study human disease and their impacts on traditional genetic analyses outside of humans. What are the challenges of translating these to other organisms (eg population structure, self-incompatibility, polyploidy, interspecific hybridization)? What are the implications of emerging 'third-gen' DNA sequencing technologies for quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis and development of genome-wide association (GWA) mapping? Finally, how might novel advances in plant genetics benefit human genetic studies?

 

Registration information and details will be posted soon.



 

Here are a few titles to our most recent symposia...

 

Mechanisms of Tumor Suppressor Proteins

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Gene Transfer
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution
Friday, December 8, 2007

Analysis of Transcriptional Networks
May 13, 2006

Roots of Immunity: Plant and Invertebrate Defenses Against Pathogens
October 3, 2004

Transcription in Development
May 17, 2003

Exploring the Genetic Basis of Human Disease
March 30, 2002

Gene Expression in Development and Disease Focus Group
June 16, 2001

Global Analysis of Complex Genetic Systems
April 21, 2001

DNA Replication
May 20, 2000

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms
May 22, 1999