Schedule of Events


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Ancillary and satellite meetings are reunion/university receptions or small meetings of editorial boards, committees, etc., and are not official TAGC functions. Asterisk (*) denotes meetings that are by invitation or pre-registration only. Otherwise, attendance may be assumed to be open to all registrants.
Listings in bold face indicate the event is an GSA-sponsored scientific session, event, or activity open to all scientific registrants. Please note some events have separate registration and require a ticket for admittance.


All TAGC Sessions/Events C.elegans Ciliate Drosophila Mouse PEQG Yeast Zebrafish

Yeast Genetics Meeting


W = C. elegans
C = Ciliates
D = Drosophila
M = Mouse
P = PEQG
Y = Yeast
Z = Zebrafish

Wednesday, July 13

Date/Time

Community

Event

   

9:00 am - 12:00 pm   Education Pre-Conference Workshops:
 
  
          Collaborative Hackathon: Make a Lesson Plan Using a Model Organism Card Game
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom B
          Teaching Foundational Concepts through Primary Literature
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom C
          Integrating Discovery-based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom D

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Crash Course in Vision & Change: Learn how to be a more effective educator
Advanced Registration required
 Hall of Cities
Chicago

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm   Education Pre-Conference Workshops:
 
  
          Collaborative Hackathon: Make a Lesson Plan Using Model Organism Card Game
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom B
          Teaching Foundational Concepts through Primary Literature
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom C
          Integrating Discovery-based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum
 Advanced Registration required
 Crystal Ballroom D

2:00 pm - 9:30 pm Speaker Ready Room Open
 Hall of Cities
Anaheim

2:30 pm - 9:30 pm Registration Open
 Cypress Ballroom 1 Alcove

2:30 pm - 9:30 pm Meal Plan Ticket Desk
 Cypress Ballroom Registration

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm   Next Stage Mixers :
 
 North Tower
 
          Undergrad Mixer
 Ticketed event
 Key West
          Graduate Student Mixer
 Ticketed event
 Sawgrass/Vinoy
          Postdoc Mixer
 Ticketed event
 Harbor Beach
          Early Career Faculty Mixer
 Ticketed event
 Marco Island

5:00 pm - 12:00
midnight 
Family/Nursing Room
 North Tower
Key Largo

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Winge-Lindegren Address by Rodney Rothstein and The Dynamic Genome Scientific Session
Chair: Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University, CA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Opening Mixer with Exhibits
 Cypress Ballroom

Thursday, July 14

Date/Time

Community

Event

   

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00
midnight 
Posters Open
 Cypress Ballroom

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00
midnight 
Family/Nursing Room
 North Tower
Key Largo

6:30 am - 1:00 pm Meal Plan Ticket Desk
 Cypress Ballroom Registration

7:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open
 Cypress Ballroom 1 Alcove

7:00 am - 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room Open
All presenters must upload their presentation 24 hours in advance of their session
 Hall of Cities
Anaheim

7:45 am - 10:00 am Genetics and Determinants of Health Joint Plenary Session
Chair: Lynn Cooley, Yale University
 
 Palms Ballroom Sago/Sabal/Royal

8:00 am - 4:00 pm Exhibits Open
 Cypress Ballroom

9:00 am - 8:00 pm   Demo Room:
 
  
          MOD (FlyBase, MGI, SGD, WormBase, Zfin) Demo Room Open for Tutorials and Discussions
 
 Palms Ballroom Canary 3-4

10:30 am - 12:30 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation
Chair: Audrey Gasch, University of WI, Madison
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Mentoring Roundtables #1
Pre-registration Required
 North Tower
Harbor Beach/Marco Island

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Speaking Up for Genetics and Model Organism Research
 Crystal Ballroom H

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Poster Presentations
 Cypress Ballroom

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm GeneticsCareers Center and Job Fair
 Cypress Ballroom 1C

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Epigenetics and Transcriptional Regulation
Chair: Lorraine Pillus, University of CA, San Diego
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2
          Plenary Session and Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers
 
 Sawgrass

7:45 pm - 9:45 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Lee Hartwell Lecture: Susan Gasser and Scientific Session: Tackling Human Disease Using Yeast
Chair: Kara Dolinski, Princeton University, NJ
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

10:00 pm - 11:30 pm Science Cafe Event
Ticketed event
 Crystal Ballroom H

Friday, July 15

Date/Time

Community

Event

   

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00
midnight 
Posters Open
 Cypress Ballroom

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00
midnight 
Family/Nursing Room
 North Tower
Key Largo

7:00 am - 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room Open
All speakers must upload their presentation 24 hours in advance of their session
 Hall of Cities
Anaheim

7:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open
 Cypress Ballroom 1 Alcove

8:00 am - 9:30 am   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Division and Development
Chair: Yona Kassir, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

8:00 am - 4:30 pm Exhibits Open
 Cypress Ballroom

9:00 am - 8:00 pm   Demo Room:
 
  
          MOD (FlyBase, MGI, SGD, WormBase, Zfin) Demonstrations Open for Tutorials and Discussions
 
 Palms Ballroom Canary 3-4

10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y YGM Lifetime Achievement Award: James Broach and Scientific Session Stress Sensing and Damage Control
Chair: Oliver Kerscher, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Editor's Panel Discussion and Roundtable
Ticketed event
 North Tower
Harbor Beach/Marco Island

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Poster Presentations
 Cypress Ballroom

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm GeneticsCareers Center
 Cypress Ballroom 1C

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm GeneticsCareers Workshop - Nailing the Job Talk
 
 Cypress Ballroom 1B

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Evolution in and out of the Lab
Chair: Helen Murphy, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Women in Genetics Panel and Networking
Ticketed event
 North Tower
Harbor Beach/Marco Island

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Y YGM Organizer Meeting
 Hall of Cities
Chicago

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Development and Evolution Joint Plenary Session
Chair: Jeannie Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 Palms Ballroom Sago/Sabal/Royal

Saturday, July 16

Date/Time

Community

Event

   

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00 pm Posters Open
 Cypress Ballroom

12:00
midnight 
- 12:00
midnight 
Family Nursing Room
 North Tower
Key Largo

7:00 am - 5:00 pm Speaker Ready Room Open
All speakers must upload their presentation 24 hours in advance of their session.
 Hall of Cities
Anaheim

7:30 am - 2:30 pm Registration Open
 Cypress Ballroom 1 Alcove

8:00 am - 10:00 am   Workshops:
 
  
          Automated Tracking for Quantitative Phenotyping
Organizers: Andre Brown, Imperial College London; Gordon Berman, Emory University; and Megan Carey, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
 
 Grand Ballroom 3
          CRISPR-based Genome Engineering
Organizer: Mike Boxem, Utrecht University, Netherlands
 
 Crystal Ballroom J2
          Using CyVerse Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Data Intensive Research, Collaboration, and Education
Organizers: Joslynn Lee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; and Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 
 Grand Ballroom 1
          Model Organisms to Face Environmental Problems
Organizers: Cristina Miceli, University of Camerino, Italy; Michael Lynch, Indiana University; and Wei Miao, China Academy of Sciences
 
 Palms Ballroom Canary 1
          Integrating Research and Teaching: Professional Development for Current and Future Faculty Members
Organizers: Rebeccah Kurzhals, Southeast Missouri State University; Joyce Fernandes, Miami University; Pamela Hanson, Birmingham-Southern College; Paula Checchi, Marist College; Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges; Eric Stoffregen, Lewis-Clark State College; and Christina Swanson, Arcadia University
 
 St. Thomas
          Informatics Resources to Aid the Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuitry
Organizers: David Osumi-Sutherland, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI); Owen Randlett, Harvard University; and Paul Sternberg, Caltech University
 
 Palms Ballroom Canary 2
          Everything you Wanted to Know about Sex
Organizers: Artyom Kopp, University of California, Davis; Michelle Arbeitman, Florida State University; Mark Siegal , New York University; and Mark Van Doren, Johns Hopkins University
 
 Palms Ballroom Sabal
          modMetabolome: Model Organism Metabolomics Consortium Workshop
Organizers: Laura Reed, University of Alabama; and Arthur Edison, University of Georgia
 
 Grand Ballroom 8A
          Feeding Behavior, Nutrition and Metabolism: Emerging Model Organisms
Organizers: Tania Reis, University of Colorado; William Ja, The Scripps Research Institute; Supriya Srinivasan, The Scripps Research Institute; and Amnon Schlegel, University of Utah
 
 Palms Ballroom Royal
          Functional Genomics for Conserved Gene Function Discovery
Organizers: Stephanie Mohr, Harvard Medical School; Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto; Susan Dutcher, Washington University in St. Louis; Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School; and Yi Zhou, Harvard University
 
 Crystal Ballroom J1, K-L
          Cell Competition in Flies and Mice
Organizers: Erika Bach, New York University Langone Medical Center; Nicholas Baker, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and Laura Johnston, Columbia University Medical Center
 
 Crystal Ballroom G1
          Developmental Mechanics
Organizers: Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto; Guy Tanentzapf, University of British Columbia; and Ronen Zaidel-Bar, National University of Singapore
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2
          Model Systems in Drug Discovery
Organizer: Daniela Zarnescu, University of Arizona
 
 Grand Ballroom 2
          CRISPR/Cas9 - Techniques and applications in Fish, Flies, & Mice
Organizers: Lauryl MJ Nutter, The Centre for Phenogenomics; John Seavitt, Baylor College of Medicine; and Edward Ryder, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
 
 Grand Ballroom 7A
          Utilizing NCBI Databases for Model Organism Research
Organizer: Terence Murphy, NIH
 
 Grand Ballroom 12-14
          Systems Genetics in Complex Populations
Organizers: Martin Ferris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Logan Everett, North Carolina State University
 
 Crystal Ballroom A-B
          An Introduction to Using Galaxy for Genetic Data Analysis
Organizer: Dave Clements, Johns Hopkins University
 
 Grand Ballroom 11
          The InterMOD Consortium: A common interface to model organism data
Organizers: Rachel Lyne, University of Cambridge; and Julie Sullivan, University of Cambridge
 
 Crystal Ballroom N-Q

8:00 am - 9:00 am   Trainee Bootcamp Workshops: Session 1:
 
 North Tower
 
          Finding a Job in Academia
 
 Bahamas
          Finding Funding
 
 Grand Cayman/Puerto Rico
          Publishing in the Digital Age
 
 Aruba

8:00 am - 12:00 pm Exhibits Open
 Cypress Ballroom

9:00 am - 10:00 am   Trainee Bootcamp Workshops: Session 2:
 
 North Tower
 
          Careers Beyond Traditional Academia
 
 Bahamas
          Finding Funding
 
 Grand Cayman/Puerto Rico
          Scientific Publishing
 
 Aruba

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Poster Presentations
All posters must be removed by 1 pm
 Cypress Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm GeneticsCareers Center
 Cypress Ballroom 1C

10:30 am - 11:15 am GeneticsCareers Workshop - Negotiating Job Offers
 
 Cypress Ballroom 1B

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Mentoring Roundtables #2
Ticketed event
 North Tower
Harbor Beach/Marco Island

1:45 pm - 3:45 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Revisiting Classical Genetics with New Technology
Chair: Aimee Dudley, Pacific Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm   Workshops:
 
 North Tower
 
          Spotlight on Undergraduate Research using Genetics Research Models
Organizers: Eric Stoffregen, Lewis-Clark State College; Elyse Bolterstein, Northeastern Illinois University; Emily Wiley, Claremont McKenna College; Michelle A. Mondoux, College of the Holy Cross; and Mary Miller, Rhodes College
 
 Aruba
          Y Beyond cerevisiae: Exploiting yeast diversity in nature to understand genome evolution in diverse environments
Organizers: Christian Landry, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada; and Judith Berman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
 
 Crystal Ballroom C-D
          Y Getting Even More Out of SGD
Organizers: Stacia R. Engel, Stanford University, CA; and Michael Cherry, Stanford University, CA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2
          You Can Publish That, Too - Publishing Education Resources
 
 Bahamas

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm   Scientific Session(s):
 
  
          Y Ira Herskowitz Award: Lars Steinmetz and Scientific Sesssion Structural and Cellular Organization
Chair: Dan Gottschling, Calico Labs, South San Francisco, CA
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

Sunday, July 17

Date/Time

Community

Event

   

12:00
midnight 
- 12:30 pm Family/Nursing Room
 North Tower
Key Largo

8:00 am - 10:00 am   Scientific Sessions:
 
  
          Y The Fat and Sweet Sides of Life
Chair: Karl Kuchler, Medical University Vienna, Austria
 
 Crystal Ballroom G2

10:30 am - 12:30 pm Technology and its Applications Joint Plenary Session
Chair: Phil Hieter, University of British Columbia
 
 Palms Ballroom Sago/Sabal/Royal


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