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49th Annual Meeting of
Genetics Society of Australia

This is GSA's 50th anniversary. The first meeting was held in Sydney in 1952. The Genetics Society of Australia, Inc has annual scientific meetings to showcase Australian genetics research. The meetings circulate around the major research centres and universities. The Society particularly encourages students in the field to attend and present their work. Presentations in all areas of genetics are welcome. The topics that are prevalent varies from year to year depending on the organisers

9-11 th JULY 2002
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES,
SYDNEY
Immediately preceding
Gene Mapping Workshop on Comparative Genomics

Abstracts closed, late and day registrations still accepted
More info |
GSA2002@unsw.edu.au
Convenor | Alan Wilton
a.wilton@unsw.edu.au

NB: There conference opening will be at the unusual time of 11 am on the 9th and the mixer will not be until the first evening. This will allow participants to arrive on the Tuesday morning. No college rooms are available for Monday 8th.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Bob Wayne (UCLA) |The use of molecular techniques for conservation of endangered species
Lutz Frönicke (NCI, Frederick) | Generation of meiotic recombination maps for Cat and Mouse chromosomes
David Martin (Victor Chang) | Epigenetics
Greg Arndt (Johnson & Johnson) |
RNA interference and Gene Expression
Bill Warren (James Cook Univ) |
Role of Drosophila rad21 in regulating
chromosome dynamics in mitosis
Hatch Stokes (Macquarie Univ) |
The floating genome:
The role of mobile gene cassettes in bacterial evolution
Phillip Bell (Macquarie Univ) | Origin of the nucleus
Roger Reddel (CMRI) | Telomere maintenance in human cancer cells
Gavin Huttley (ANU) |
The effect of linkage disequilibrium among epistatically interacting genes on the power of association studies
Frank Nicholas (Sydney University) | Charles Darwin in Australia
Bruce Sheldon | 50th Anniversary of Genetics Society Meetings

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