2007 Annual UPGG Retreat, Nags Head, NC

Schedule

Arrive at Oceanfront South (about a 4-hour drive from campus) between 4–7 pm

6:30 – 7:30 pm dinner in Spirit Cove

7:30 – 10pm talks in Neptune Room

7:30 – Welcome

7:35 – Rich Roberts, "A New Class of Chemosensory Receptors"

8:05 – Carolyn Sangokoya, "Genetics of red blood cells"

8:20 - break

8:30 – Carolyn Wessinger, "Assessing tolerance to serpentine soil in Mimulus"

8:45 – Bayly Wheeler, "Heterochromatin Spreading in Fission Yeast"

9:15 – Faculty Panel – Why do you study what you study?

Saturday, May 5th

6:30 – 9:30 am continental breakfast, Spirit Cove

9:30 am – 12:25 pm talks in Neptune Room

9:30 – Kent Wood, "Regulation of the Copper Responsive Transcription Factor, Mac1"

10:00 – Jason Reeves, "A Different Look at Human Evolution: Searching for Positive Selection in Regulatory Elements"

10:15 – Liz Ballou, "Three synonymous SNPs contribute to high temperature growth in pathogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

10:30 – Dave Des Marais, "Gene duplication allows substrate specialization in a biosynthesis enzyme"

11:00 – break

11:10 – Todd Twigg, "Genomic Analyses of Tissue Specific Gene Regulation in the Arabidopsis root: miRNAs and RootArrays"

11:40 – Mollie Minear, "Cardiovascular disease and genomic convergence"

11:55 – Michelle Turski, "Novel Roles for Copper and Ctr1 Proteins"

12:25 pm – 6:30 pm free time

6:30 pm – carpool to dinner

7 pm dinner at Windmill Point

Sunday, May 6th

6:30 – 9:30 am continental breakfast, Spirit Cove

9:30 am – 12:40 pm talks in Neptune Room

9:30 – David Lowry, "Genetic and ecogeographic mechanisms of species formation in Mimulus guttatus"

10:00 – Kaitlin Stimpson, "A human cell culture model for studying dicentric chromosome formation and centromere inactivation"

10:15 – Kristin Maloney, "Genomic Imprinting at the Neuronatin Locus: A Not-So-Simple Story After All"

10:45 – Kyle Dexter, "Measuring the effect of dispersal on tropical tree community dynamics: a population genetic approach"

11:15 – break

11:25 – Small Groups

12:00 – UPGG Dons time

12:30 - awards

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