61160 event 1285175032 1475891542 Dr. Greg Gibson and the Integrative BioSystems Institute are pleased to host a workshop entitled "Systems Biology of Complex Traits" on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116. Below is a list of speakers, topics and the titles of their presentations.

Greg Gibson, Professor and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Facial Expressions: "Facing up to the genetics of complex traits"

Sergey Nuzhdin, Professor, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California
Flies: “Phenotypic effects of regulatory variation in Drosophila”

Larry Young, Professor, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University
Voles: “Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding”

David Clayton, Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Finches: “The dynamic interplay of genes and social life: learning from songbirds”

Joshua Akey, Associate Professor, Department of Genome Science, University of Washington
Dogs: "Unnatural Selection in Dogs: A Genome-Wide Scan for Substrates of Human Tinkering”

Lunch and beverage services will be provided throughout the workshop.Registration is not required.

]]> Jessica Gilmore Forness
Executive Assistant
Integrative BioSystems Institute
Phone: (404) 407-8976
E-mail: jessica.gilmore@biology.gatech.edu
http://www.ibsi.gatech.edu/

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