[DIV28SUPER] NIDA and NIAAA Genetics Satellite Miniconvention to World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Sept. 9-10, 2011, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

NIDA and NIAAA Genetics Satellite Miniconvention to World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Sept. 9-10, 2011, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

Day 1: NIDA/NIAAA Mini-convention on Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse, Friday Sept 9, and Call for Invited Posters

Day 2: NIAAA/NIDA Next generation sequencing technologies and Medical sequencing approaches for complex disorders 

 

 

Day 1: NIDA/NIAAA Mini-convention on Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse, Friday Sept 9, and Call for Invited Posters

This satellite symposium to the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism on Friday, September 9, 2011 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC highlights recent advances in the field of the genetics and epigenetics of substance abuse. The impact of co-morbid psychiatric disorders on the genetics of substance abuse will also be discussed.  The invited speakers are Ken Kendler, Laura Bierut, Howard Edenberg, Joel Gelernter, Paul Kenny, and Eric Nestler.  Eric Green, the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute will be the keynote speaker.  Eric Green will speak about future directions for genetic and genomic research at NIH.

 

A call for invited posters on the genetics and epigenetics of substance abuse with or without co-morbid disorders is also being made for this meeting.  An honorarium of $250 will be given to each of the 40 scientists whose abstracts are accepted and attend the meeting.  Submissions will be reviewed on a competitive basis by NIDA and NIAAA program staff.  The deadline for submission is April 18, 2011 by the close of business day.  Please submit abstracts and CV to Posterabstracts@seiservices.com. This deadline coincides with the deadline to submit regular abstract to the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics Meeting.

 

To register for the meeting go to http://www.seiservices.com/nida/1014096/

 

For more information contact:

Jonathan D. Pollock, Ph.D.

Chief

Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology Research Branch

Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research

National Institute on Drug Abuse

6001 Executive Blvd. Rm 4103

Bethesda, MD 20892

(For Fedex Delivery the address is Rockville, MD 20852)

tel. 301-435-1309

fax. 301-594-6043

email. jpollock@mail.nih.gov

 

Day 2: NIAAA/NIDA Next generation sequencing technologies and Medical sequencing approaches for complex disorders 

The purpose of this workshop is to develop consensus research strategy based on new developments in sequencing technologies or next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. The production of large numbers of low cost sequence data makes the NGS platform useful for many applications especially human genomics.  The application of NGS technologies to the identification of genes conferring vulnerability to alcohol dependence and substance abuse will be discussed.

No registration necessary.

 

For more information contact:

Abbas Parsian, Ph.D.

Program Director, Human Genetics/Genomics

Division of Neuroscience & Behavior

NIAAA/NIH

5635 Fishers Lane, RM 2063

Bethesda, MD 20892-9304

Phone: 301-443-5733

Fax: 301-443-1650

E-mail: parsiana@mail.nih.gov

Federal Express mail delivery:

Rockville, MD 20852-1705

 

 

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