From ACruz at nas.edu Fri Aug 12 12:49:15 2005 From: ACruz at nas.edu (Cruz, Alyssa) Date: Tue Aug 16 11:31:50 2005 Subject: [Genstructure] ANNOUNCEMENT: National Academy of Sciences Sackler Tapestry of Life colloquium: 12/12-12/13/05 Message-ID: <729BE221C95D5D4980DD9FEC330951EE02072675@NA900.nrc.na.int> Dear All, The National Academy of Sciences is featuring an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on The Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements. The Tapestry of Life colloquium will take place at the Beckman Center of the National Academies in Irvine, CA on December 12-13, 2005. It would be greatly appreciated if you can forward the Colloquium information to your colleagues, students, faculty members and individuals who would be interested in attending. To facilitate the participation of younger scientists, a number of travel reimbursements will be available for graduate students and postdocs to help subsidize their travel to the conference. ********************************* What Darwin saw as a tree of life descending in a linear fashion, is now more accurately seen as a tapestry of life, an anastomosing network, with important lateral transfers of heritable elements among parallel lines of descent. These transfers range in complexity from small insertion sequences, to whole genes, gene islands, and portions of whole genomes which may be combined in symbiogenesis. The purpose of the colloquium is to bring together researchers, empirical and theoretical, working at all levels on genomics, comparative genomics, and metagenomics to identify common and differentiating features of lateral gene transfer and to examine their implications for science and for human concerns. We encourage you and your colleagues to attend this Colloquium. The general participant registration fee is $250 (late registration fee is $350 after September 30th) and a reduced all-inclusive registration fee of $100 is offered to Graduate Students and Postdocs. The registration fee includes the cost of meals, reception, and banquet. The organizers have added a poster session to the Colloquium, scheduled for 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at the Beckman Center on Monday, December 12th. General participants and students are eligible to participate in the poster session. For more information about the poster session and the Colloquium, or to register, please go to www.nas.edu/sackler/tapestry or email us at sackler@nas.edu. ***************************************** Alyssa Cruz Program Administrator Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia National Academy of Sciences 5251 California Avenue - Suite 230 Irvine, CA 92617 949-387-2923 (phone) 949-387-0500 (fax) www.nasonline.org/sackler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/genstruc/attachments/20050812/1c4ef98f/attachment.html