[HapMap announcements] Beyond HapMap - 3rd Annual International HapMap Project Community Analysis Meeting - May 8-10, 2006

[Albert Vernon Smith]

Beyond HapMap – 3rd Annual International HapMap Project Community  
Analysis Meeting
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
May 8-10, 2006

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PLEASE NOTE:

The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, March 31.

Abstracts from non-registered persons will NOT be considered.

The conference announcement and details regarding registration
follow below for ease of reference.

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The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday, March 31, 2006.
The deadline for registration is Friday, April 14, 2006.

Lecture seating is limited; therefore, early registration is  
encouraged. Capacity may be met prior to the April 14 deadline.

Complete instructions for abstract submission and registration, and  
further details of the conference, can be found at the conference Web  
site:http://www.broad.mit.edu/events/hapmapmeeting
The Analysis Committee of the International HapMap Project organized  
two previous meetings (April 2004 and March 2005) at which  
investigators from around the world reviewed emerging data from the  
HapMap Project and related efforts, shared analyses, and debated  
directions for future research. Phase I of HapMap was published in  
October 2005, and Phase II is now complete.
This meeting, the third in the series, has as its primary focus the  
application of the HapMap resource in human disease studies,  
population genetic and evolutionary insights obtained from the data,  
and emerging themes that point to new resources (such as knowledge of  
structural variants) required to perform human genetic research.
“Beyond Hapmap” is an unequalled opportunity for a diverse community  
of investigators—those involved in the HapMap Project, in population  
genetic and statistical analysts, and in genetic studies of human  
diseases—to come together to define and discuss a range of issues  
related to the use of the HapMap resource, and to identify paths  
forward to discover genetic contributions to human disease.
We invite participation and registration for this meeting by  
investigators (both mid-career and trainees) from these and other  
related fields. We strongly encourage the submission of an abstract  
from interested scientists, as more than half of the presentation  
slots at the meeting are reserved for talks selected from the abstracts.

Co-chairs International HapMap Analysis Group:
David Altshuler, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Peter Donnelly, University of Oxford
Travel Awards

Travel awards of $1000.00 for up to 15 young investigators (students,  
postdocs, or young investigators) are available for this meeting.  
Qualified persons requesting consideration for a travel award must be  
registered for the conference and submit the following items to  
melindaagray at comcast.net, no later than March 15:

1)       current CV
2)       formatted abstract (please refer to the abstract submission  
guidelines on the conference Web site)

Awards will be made based on the research submitted in the abstract  
and the academic promise of the candidate with some priority given to  
applications from women, underrepresented minorities, and applicants  
with disabilities. Submitted material will be reviewed, and funding  
decisions made, by the conference program committee.





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