Next Generation Genetics (December 11, 2009)

This on-day Symposium highlights next-generation genomics technologies and novel genetic approaches developed to study human disease and their impacts on traditional genetic analyses outside of humans. What are the challenges of translating these to other organisms (eg population structure, self-incompatibility, polyploidy, interspecific hybridization)? What are the implications of emerging 'third-gen' DNA sequencing technologies for quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis and development of genome-wide association (GWA) mapping? Finally, how might novel advances in plant genetics benefit human genetic studies?

Registration information and details will be posted soon.