Schedule of Events
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Thursday, April 16
02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Mammalian Trainee Symposium
Chairs
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, UNC Chapel Hill
Linda Siracusa, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University
Wednesday, April 22
10:45 AM - 01:10 PM
Opening Keynote Session and GSA Award Presentations
Chairs
Denise Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Johnston, University of Colorado and Editor in Chief of GENETICS
Yeast Genetics Meeting Lifetime Achievement Award and the Yeast Gimme a Break: Chromosome Stability in Stress and Development Session
Chairs
Helle Ulrich, IMB, Mainz, Germany
Michael Polymenis, Texas A&M University
Genetic Control of Development and Regeneration (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Christian Mosimann, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania
New Technology and Resources in Development (C. elegans)
Chair
Jordan Ward, University of California, Santa Cruz
Neurogenetics (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Adam Miller, University of Oregon
Celia Shiau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Genetic Technology in Practice
Sponsored by Calico, Dupont and Zymergen
Sponsored by Calico, Dupont and Zymergen
Chair
Kailene Simon, Atalanta Therapeutics
Thursday, April 23
Developmental Genetics: The Germline
Chairs
Kari Lenhart, Drexel University
Kellee Siegfried, University of Massachusetts
The Architectures of Complex Traits (PEQG)
Chair
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California, Davis
Undergraduate Session
Chairs
Rob Ward, University of Kansas
Julie Hall, Lincoln Memorial University
Nicole Green, University of Iowa
Genomics, Gene Regulation, and Systems Biology (C. elegans)
Chair
Florian Steiner, University of Geneva
Disease Models and Aging (Drosophila)
Chairs
Nancy Bonini, University of Penn
Heinrich Jasper, Buck Institute/Genentech
Lindsey Goodman, Baylor College of Medicine
Genomics/Systems Biology and Gene Regulation (Drosophila)
Chairs
Melissa Harrison, University of Wisconsin
Daniel McKay, UNC Chapel Hill
Brent Graveley, University of Connecticut
Stein Aerts, VIB
Genomics and Systems Biology (Mammal)
Chair
Michelle Southard-Smith, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Adaptation in Natural Populations (PEQG)
Chair
Felicity Jones, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
New Technologies and their Impact (Yeast)
Chairs
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto
Benoit Kornmann, University of Oxford
New Technologies and Resources (Zebrafish)
Chairs
David Grunwald, University of Utah
Brian Ciruna, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Friday, April 24
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Gruber Genetics Prize Presentation
Bonnie Bassler (HHMI/Princeton University) will deliver the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize Lecture: Quorum-sensing communication: from viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes
Bonnie Bassler (HHMI/Princeton University) will deliver the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize Lecture: Quorum-sensing communication: from viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes
Chair
Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara
Developmental Genetics: Cell Specification and Competition
Chairs
Lindsey Barske, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jing Yang, University of Illinois
11:30 AM - 01:15 PM
Education Session
Chairs
Justin DiAngelo, Penn State Berks
Te-Wen Lo, Ithaca College
Jenny Knight, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Departures from Additivity: Dominance, Epistasis and GxE (PEQG)
Chair
Kelley Harris, University of Washington
Direct Collaborations Between Model Organism Researchers and Clinicians
Chairs
Shinya Yamamoto, Baylor College of Medicine
Andy Golden, NIH
Koichi Kawakami, NIG-Japan
Genetics of Neuronal Development and Behavior
Chairs
Julie Dallman, University of Miami
Max Heiman, Harvard University
Mechanistic Intracellular Dynamics
Chairs
Amanda Amodeo, Princeton University
Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago
Saturday, April 25
Developmental Genetics (Drosophila)
Chairs
Mary Baylies, MSKCC
Nic Tapon, Francis Crick Institute
Melanie Worley, UC Berkeley
Neurogenetics/New Technology (Drosophila)
Chairs
Bassem Hassan, ICM Paris
Robin Hiesinger, Freie U Berlin
Kate O'Connor-Giles, Brown University
Giorgio Gilestro, Imperial College London
Leif Benner, NIH/NIDDK
Divergence, Hybridization and Reproducible Isolation (PEQG)
Chair
Molly Schumer, Stanford University
Insights into Cellular Dynamics and Functions (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Qing Deng, Purdue University
George Eisenhoffer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gene Regulation/Genome Integrity (Drosophila)
Chairs
Melissa Harrison, U Wisconsin
Daniel McKay, UNC Chapel Hill
Jeff Sekelsky, UNC Chapel Hill
Astrid Haase, NIH/NIDDK
Evan Dewey, UNC Chapel Hill
Intracellular Dynamics (Drosophila)
Chairs
Matt Sieber, UT Southwestern
Savraj Grewal, University of Calgary
Heidi Bretscher, University of Minnesota
Future Visions of Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG)
Chair
Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University
Dynamics and Regulation of Cellular Organization (Yeast)
Chairs
Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis
Disease Models (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Charles Kaufman, Washington University School of Medicine
Zhaoxia Sun, Yale University School of Medicine
Sunday, April 26
Monday, April 27
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Sarah Bay, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Tuesday, April 28
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 1- Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
Wednesday, April 29
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ethical, Legal, Social Issues/Best Practices in Training and Education - Poster Q&A
Chair
Sarah Bay, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 4 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Thursday, April 30
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Developmental Genetics/Quantitative Genetics 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Developmental Genetics/Quantitative Genetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Friday, May 01
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 4 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Tuesday, May 19
Tuesday, May 26
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Education: Raising a woke generation of geneticists: how and why to include eugenics history in genetics classes
Organizers: M. Markstein, G. Davis, C. Lelliott, A. Thomas
Organizers: M. Markstein, G. Davis, C. Lelliott, A. Thomas
Tuesday, June 02
Thursday, June 04
Tuesday, June 16
Thursday, June 18
Monday, July 13
Thursday, April 16
02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Mammalian Trainee Symposium
Chairs
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, UNC Chapel Hill
Linda Siracusa, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University
Wednesday, April 22
10:45 AM - 01:10 PM
Opening Keynote Session and GSA Award Presentations
Chairs
Denise Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Johnston, University of Colorado and Editor in Chief of GENETICS
Yeast Genetics Meeting Lifetime Achievement Award and the Yeast Gimme a Break: Chromosome Stability in Stress and Development Session
Chairs
Helle Ulrich, IMB, Mainz, Germany
Michael Polymenis, Texas A&M University
Genetic Control of Development and Regeneration (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Christian Mosimann, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mary Mullins, University of Pennsylvania
New Technology and Resources in Development (C. elegans)
Chair
Jordan Ward, University of California, Santa Cruz
Neurogenetics (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Adam Miller, University of Oregon
Celia Shiau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Genetic Technology in Practice
Sponsored by Calico, Dupont and Zymergen
Sponsored by Calico, Dupont and Zymergen
Chair
Kailene Simon, Atalanta Therapeutics
Thursday, April 23
Developmental Genetics: The Germline
Chairs
Kari Lenhart, Drexel University
Kellee Siegfried, University of Massachusetts
The Architectures of Complex Traits (PEQG)
Chair
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California, Davis
Undergraduate Session
Chairs
Rob Ward, University of Kansas
Julie Hall, Lincoln Memorial University
Nicole Green, University of Iowa
Genomics, Gene Regulation, and Systems Biology (C. elegans)
Chair
Florian Steiner, University of Geneva
Disease Models and Aging (Drosophila)
Chairs
Nancy Bonini, University of Penn
Heinrich Jasper, Buck Institute/Genentech
Lindsey Goodman, Baylor College of Medicine
Genomics/Systems Biology and Gene Regulation (Drosophila)
Chairs
Melissa Harrison, University of Wisconsin
Daniel McKay, UNC Chapel Hill
Brent Graveley, University of Connecticut
Stein Aerts, VIB
Genomics and Systems Biology (Mammal)
Chair
Michelle Southard-Smith, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Adaptation in Natural Populations (PEQG)
Chair
Felicity Jones, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
New Technologies and their Impact (Yeast)
Chairs
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto
Benoit Kornmann, University of Oxford
New Technologies and Resources (Zebrafish)
Chairs
David Grunwald, University of Utah
Brian Ciruna, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Friday, April 24
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Gruber Genetics Prize Presentation
Bonnie Bassler (HHMI/Princeton University) will deliver the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize Lecture: Quorum-sensing communication: from viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes
Bonnie Bassler (HHMI/Princeton University) will deliver the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize Lecture: Quorum-sensing communication: from viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes
Chair
Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara
Developmental Genetics: Cell Specification and Competition
Chairs
Lindsey Barske, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jing Yang, University of Illinois
11:30 AM - 01:15 PM
Education Session
Chairs
Justin DiAngelo, Penn State Berks
Te-Wen Lo, Ithaca College
Jenny Knight, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
Departures from Additivity: Dominance, Epistasis and GxE (PEQG)
Chair
Kelley Harris, University of Washington
Direct Collaborations Between Model Organism Researchers and Clinicians
Chairs
Shinya Yamamoto, Baylor College of Medicine
Andy Golden, NIH
Koichi Kawakami, NIG-Japan
Genetics of Neuronal Development and Behavior
Chairs
Julie Dallman, University of Miami
Max Heiman, Harvard University
Mechanistic Intracellular Dynamics
Chairs
Amanda Amodeo, Princeton University
Sally Horne-Badovinac, University of Chicago
Saturday, April 25
Developmental Genetics (Drosophila)
Chairs
Mary Baylies, MSKCC
Nic Tapon, Francis Crick Institute
Melanie Worley, UC Berkeley
Neurogenetics/New Technology (Drosophila)
Chairs
Bassem Hassan, ICM Paris
Robin Hiesinger, Freie U Berlin
Kate O'Connor-Giles, Brown University
Giorgio Gilestro, Imperial College London
Leif Benner, NIH/NIDDK
Divergence, Hybridization and Reproducible Isolation (PEQG)
Chair
Molly Schumer, Stanford University
Insights into Cellular Dynamics and Functions (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Qing Deng, Purdue University
George Eisenhoffer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gene Regulation/Genome Integrity (Drosophila)
Chairs
Melissa Harrison, U Wisconsin
Daniel McKay, UNC Chapel Hill
Jeff Sekelsky, UNC Chapel Hill
Astrid Haase, NIH/NIDDK
Evan Dewey, UNC Chapel Hill
Intracellular Dynamics (Drosophila)
Chairs
Matt Sieber, UT Southwestern
Savraj Grewal, University of Calgary
Heidi Bretscher, University of Minnesota
Future Visions of Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG)
Chair
Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University
Dynamics and Regulation of Cellular Organization (Yeast)
Chairs
Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis
Disease Models (Zebrafish)
Chairs
Charles Kaufman, Washington University School of Medicine
Zhaoxia Sun, Yale University School of Medicine
Sunday, April 26
Monday, April 27
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Sarah Bay, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
New Technology and Resources/Genomics and Systems Biology/Neurogenetics 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Tuesday, April 28
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 1- Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Gene Regulation/Disease Models and Aging 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
Wednesday, April 29
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ethical, Legal, Social Issues/Best Practices in Training and Education - Poster Q&A
Chair
Sarah Bay, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Suzy Brown, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Intracellular Dynamics/Genome Integrity 4 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Thursday, April 30
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Developmental Genetics/Quantitative Genetics 1 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Developmental Genetics/Quantitative Genetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Friday, May 01
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 2 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Ruth Isaacson, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 3 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Anne Marie Mahoney, Genetics Society of America
12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Evolutionary and Population Genetics 4 - Poster Q&A
Chair
Mary Van Tyne, Genetics Society of America
Tuesday, May 19
Tuesday, May 26
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Education: Raising a woke generation of geneticists: how and why to include eugenics history in genetics classes
Organizers: M. Markstein, G. Davis, C. Lelliott, A. Thomas
Organizers: M. Markstein, G. Davis, C. Lelliott, A. Thomas
Tuesday, June 02
Thursday, June 04
Tuesday, June 16
Thursday, June 18
Monday, July 13