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From: Nicolas Alexandre <nalex...@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Endless Forms Symposium
To: Pleuni Pennings <Pspen...@gmail.com>

Hi Pleuni,

Would this interest you or anyone in your lab? Feel free to forward to the BAPG listserv.

Nicolas

Below is a new announcement for "Endless forms: UC Berkeley Symposium on Non-Model Systems". We hope you can all join us, and please note that the abstract and talk submission deadline is extended to June 16. Talk and poster prizes will be provided!

ABSTRACT AND TALK SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16th

TALK AND POSTER PRIZES

Please join us for the Endless forms: UC Berkeley Symposium on Non-Model Systems

With Keynote Speaker Dr. Stacey Smith on June 29^th, 2018

Website: https://endlessforms.science/

When: June 29, 2018, 10:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Where: Stanley Hall, Room 106

Keynote Speaker: Professor Stacey Smith (University of Colorado, Boulder)

https://www.colorado.edu/smithlab/research

What’s provided: Lunch, Coffee, Refreshments and snacks.

Major model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster and Mus musculus, have allowed researchers to make great strides in advancing our understanding in a range of fields, frombiological process and medical breakthroughs to evolutionary biology. However, classic model organisms are not suitable to address many aspects of biology, and advancements inmolecular tools are now allowing researchers to expand their work into “non-model” systems. The topic of this meeting focuses on the novel research being conducted on non-modelorganisms at UC Berkeley. Many new tools such as RNA sequencing, chromatin accessibility, and CRISPR are being used by labs across campus, yet common problems likely ariseindependently when dealing with non-model systems. Therefore, this meeting will promote cross-disciplinary interaction by bringing together researchers of different backgrounds, such asbioinformatics, evo-devo, and ecology.

While all members of the biological sciences community are encouraged to attend, the intended audience will be graduate students and postdocs working on non-model systems. Themeeting will promote cross-disciplinary interactions by bringing together different departments and communities that likely have much to learn from the experience of others working onnon-model organisms, such as technical challenges and experimental design.