CTC 2013

Complex Trait Community 12th annual meeting
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
May 29-31, 2013

Conference program


Wednesday, 29 May
7:30 – 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast Great Hall Foyer
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome message Great Hall
8:45 – 9:45 Keynote: John Doebley Great Hall
Chair: Bret Payseur
9:45 – 10:25 Session 1: Resources Great Hall
Chair: Robert Blank
      9:45 Gary Churchill
Status of The Diversity Outbred Population
      10:05 Darla Miller
Access to the Collaborative Cross Population through the UNC-Chapel Hill Distribution Center
10:25 – 11:00 Break Great Hall Foyer
11:00 – noon Session 1 (continued) Great Hall
      11:00 Beverly Richards-Smith
What's in a Name? Why Nomenclature Matters
      11:20 Emma Huang
Genetic resources for accelerating understanding of the bread wheat genome
      11:40 Stuart Macdonald
The Drosophila Synthetic Population Resource
noon – 1:00 Box lunch Great Hall Foyer
1:00 – 2:40 Session 2: Systems genetics Great Hall
Chair: Greg Carter
      1:00 Mete Civelek
Genetic regulation of human adipose microRNA expression and its consequences for metabolic traits
      1:20 Elissa Chesler
Genetics of Hippocampal Gene Expression in Diversity Outbred Mice
      1:40 Leslie Turner
Genomic networks of hybrid sterility
      2:00 Christian Deschepper
Gene co-expression modules, chromosome domains and cardiac left ventricular mass
      2:20 Ian Ehrenreich
Comprehensive dissection of a complex genetic interaction
2:40 – 3:00 Break Tripp Commons
3:00 – 5:00 Posters (odd numbers) Tripp Commons
6:00pm Social night out Meet at Great Dane, 123 E Doty St