Program

Keynote Speaker: Len Pennacchio, Ph.D., Deputy of Genomic Technologies, DOE Joint Genome Institute and Senior Staff Scientist, Genomic Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  Lecture topic:  “Contribution of non-genetic regulatory gene sequences to structural birth defects.”

Round Table: Kjersti Aagaard-Tillery, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. Lecture Topic:  “Integrating “omics” data to better understand structural birth defects.” Roundtable Discussion: Kjersti Aagaard, Nadav Ahituv, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Charlotte Hobbs, and Ian Krantz further fleshing out the concept of how we integrate “omics” data to better understand the etiology of birth defects.

In addition to talks presented by the grantees, short talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts, with priority for junior investigators.

New! Mentoring Sessions

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Poster Sessions

Poster boards for this meeting will be horizontal (landscape) in orientation.  The maximum poster dimensions are: