Wellcome Trust School of Human Genomics, 17th – 22nd August 2008 Cambridge, UK

We are pleased to announce the Wellcome Trust School of Human Genomics, being held from 17th – 22nd August 2008, at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

This is an opportunity for current scientific leaders to interact with future stars in the field, and for students to learn and be inspired by those that have shaped human genomics in the last decade.  The schedule of this course is designed to be highly interactive with integrated presentations by the tutors and students, discussions about current topics in human genetics, and one-to-one meetings between tutors and students.

Organisers:               Leena Peltonen, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

Manolis Dermitzakis, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

Tutors include:       Stylianos Antonarakis, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dorret Boomsma, VU University, Amersterdam

Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins University, USA    

Andrew Clark, Cornell University, USA

Nancy Cox, University of Chicago, USA

Nicholas Katsanis, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Uppsala University, Sweden and Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT Boston, USA

James R Lupski, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Mark McCarthy, University of Oxford, UK

Thomas Meitinger, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Gert van Ommen, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Simon Tavaré, University of Southern California, USA

Ken Weiss, Pennsylvania State University, USA


More information.

The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre hosts a series of scientific meetings and courses throughout the year. 
 
For further information about these events, please visit our website.

Please email p.garland@wtconference.org.uk if you do not wish to receive information about future meetings.

Pam Garland
Conference Organiser, Event Management
The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire
CB10 1RQ

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