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We invite you to attend the 2nd C. elegans Development & Evolution Topic Meeting. The meeting will be held June 11 – 15, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

The meeting will commence on Wednesday evening, June 11th, with an opening session from 7:30 PM until 10:00 PM, followed by a social from 10:00 PM until 12:00 midnight in front of the Wisconsin Union Theatre. The meeting will end on Sunday, June 15th, at 2:00 pm.

Author Presentation Notification
Platform and poster notification assignments will be posted at the Meeting website on or around Monday, May 12, 2008

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Topics included in this meeting are:
Cell Cycle and Mitosis
Cell Death
Cell Division and Cytokinesis
Cell Biology: Cell Adhesion & MIgration
Cell Biology: Organelles, Cells & Tissues
Morphogenesis
Cell Fate Determination: Embryonic
Cell Fate Determination: Post-Embryonic
Evolution
Evolution of Development
Microevolution and Evolutionary Genomics
Gametogenesis and Meiosis
Germline Development
Sex Determination

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We are delighted to announce that the following individuals will be among those giving plenary talks:

John White (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
Julie Ahringer (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, England)
Scott Emmons (The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)
Michel Labouesse (University of Strasbourg, France)
Susan Mango (Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
Barbara Meyer (Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Sam Ward (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
Ding Xue (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

The Meeting Organizers are:
Diana Chu:  San Francisco State University (chud@sfsu.edu)
Monica Colaiacovo:  Harvard Medical School (mcolaiacovo@genetics.med.harvard.edu)
Ahna Skop: University of Wisconsin-Madison(skop@wisc.edu)
          
The Organizing Committee:
Raymond Chan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Rafal Ciosk (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
Gyorgyi Csankovszki  (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Asher Cutter (University of Toronto)
Monica Gotta (University of Geneva)
Danielle Hamill (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Craig LaMunyon (California State Polytechnic University)
Morris Maduro (University of California, Riverside)
Enrique Martinez-Perez (University of Sheffield)
Michael Miller (University of Alabama)
Jeremy Nance (New York University)
Hinrich Schulenburg (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Jill Schumacher (M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas at Houston)
Jeffrey Simske (Rammelkamp Center for Education and Research)
Martha Soto (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-RWJMS)
Xiaochen Wang  (National Institute for Biological Sciences, Beijing)
Zheng Zhou (Baylor College of Medicine)

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We thank the generous support of our 2008 Conference Sponsors

CONFERENCE DEADLINES:    
Abstract Submission:  Monday, April 7, 2008 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. Platform and poster notification assignments will be posted at the Meeting website on or around, Monday, May 12, 2008

Lodging Reservations (via registration site): Monday, May 5, 2008

Payments: All charges must be paid in full at the time of on-line registration. If you have already registered but not yet paid, please do so immediately or your lodging reservation is subject to cancellation.

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