Tuesday, July 29

11:00 am - 5:00 pm GSA Trainee Boot Camp  

4:00 pm - 10:00 pm Registration  Meany Theater Lobby

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm GSA Education Special Interest Group Mixer/Pedagogy Workshop  

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm First Time Attendee Social  Meany Theater Lobby

7:00 pm - 7:15 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Trisha Davis, Meeting Organizer, University of Washington, Seattle

Adam Fagen, Executive Director
Genetics Society of America

Mark Johnston, GENETICS and Brenda Andrews, G3: Genes, Genome, Genetics
 Meany Theater

7:15 pm - 8:15 pm Ira Herskowitz Award Lecture
Award recipient and speaker: Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Introduction by Chad Myers
 Meany Theater

8:15 pm - 11:00 pm Opening Mixer  Meany Theater Lobby


Wednesday, July 30

7:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

7:30 am - 5:30 pm Registration  Meany Theater Lobby

8:30 am - 10:00 am Cell Cycle Transitions
Chair: Mark Rose
 Meany Theater

10:30 am - 11:15 am Environmental Sensing Networks
Chair: Brenda Andrews
 Meany Theater

11:15 am - 12:00 noon Lee Hartwell Lecture
Award recipient and speaker: George Church,
Harvard University
Introduction by Mike Snyder
 Meany Theater

12:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Temporal and Spatial Control of Chromatin
Chair: Toshi Tsukiyama
 Meany Theater

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Special Presentation by Jon Lorsch, Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH  Meany Theater

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Undergraduate Dinner  

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner
How to Get Published Dinner
 HUB Den

7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Poster Session 1 and Exhibits  HUB Grand Ballroom


Thursday, July 31

7:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

8:00 am - 1:00 pm Registration  Meany Theater Lobby

8:30 am - 10:00 am Trafficking and Cellular Architecture
Chair: Liz Conibear
 Meany Theater

10:30 am - 12:00 noon Dissecting Complex Traits
Chair: Aimee Dudley
 Meany Theater

12:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch  HUB Den

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Workshops
 
   
          Beyond cerevisiae
Organizer: Judy Berman
 Kane Hall, Room 120 
          Computational Tools at SGD
Organizer: Maria Costanzo
 Kane Hall, Room 220

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Plenary Session and Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers  Kane Hall, Room 210

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Advocacy Presentation  Kane Hall, Room 210

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner
GSA Career Dinner Tables
 HUB Den

7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Poster Session 2 and Exhibits  HUB Grand Ballroom


Friday, August 1

7:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

8:15 am - 5:30 pm Registration  Meany Theater Lobby

8:30 am - 10:00 am Chromosome Dynamics
Chair: Bonny Brewer
 Meany Theater

10:30 am - 11:15 am Aging
Chair: Martha Cyert
 Meany Theater

11:15 am - 12:00 noon Lifetime Achievement Award
Award recipient and speaker: Jeremy Thorner, University of California, Berkeley

Introduction by Martha Cyert
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12:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Next Generation Genetics
Chair: Vivien Measday
 Meany Theater

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Epigenetics and Post-Transcriptional Regulation
Chair: Fred Winston
 Meany Theater

5:15 pm - 5:30 pm Tribute to Fred Sherman
Given by Sue Liebman
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6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner  HUB Den

7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Poster Session 3 and Exhibits  HUB Grand Ballroom


Saturday, August 2

7:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  Lander Hall, Local Point Dining

8:15 am - 12:00 noon Registration  Meany Theater Lobby

8:30 am - 10:00 am Spatial Relationships
Chair: Yoshi Ohya
 Meany Theater

10:30 am - 12:00 noon Chromosome Rearrangements and Polyploidy
Chair: Audrey Gasch
 Meany Theater

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm New Technologies
Chair: Sue Jasperson
 Meany Theater

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Yeast and Human Disease
Chair: Jasper Rine
 Meany Theater

5:30 pm - 5:45 pm GSA Awards
Presentation of Edward Novitski Prize to Charlie Boone Presentation of Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education to Malcolm Campbell
 Meany Theater

6:00 pm - 12:00 am Banquet, GSA Poster Awards
Winge-Lindegren Address by Anita Hopper, Ohio State University, Introduction by Ben Hall followed by the Conference Party
 HUB Grand Ballroom


Sunday, August 3

9:00 am - 11:00 am Genomics and Proteomics
Organizer: Corey Nislow
 Meany Theater