GEMS presents two annual meetings on scientifically relevant subjects as determined by our Board of Directors.  Use the links below to view information about future and past Meetings.

Upcoming Meeting:

Fall 2011

Topic: Oxidative stress - role of metals and metalloids in cancer

Registration

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Past Meetings:

GEMS 28 Spring Meeting on "Application of Genomics Data to Understand Chemical Mechanisms of Action" was held at the EPA facility in RTP

         To obtain downloads of the presentations click the "2011 Spring Downloads" tab near the top of this page.

GEMS 28th Fall Meeting on "Deep Sequencing, Regulation and Cancer" was held at the RTP Sheraton Imperial Hotel

• Sponsors presented exhibits
• Awards were presented for the best platform presentations and for best posters

GEMS 27th Spring Meeting on "High Throughput Screening for Chemical Genomics and Computational Toxicology"

         To find out what happened at the meeting talk to a GEMS veteran who is not too old to forget what happened at the meeting. 

GEMS 27th Fall Meeting on "Dissecting genome structure, genetic traits, and basis for complex diseases" was held at the William and Ida Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• For a summary of the meeting, see the article by Eddy Ball in the November 2009 issue of NIEHS's eFactor (see newsletter link).

• Topic --  Genome Architecture: The Role for Copy Number and Structural Variation
• A major goal of genetic and genomic research is to understand how the genetic differences between individuals (genotypes) at the sequence and structural levels translate into variation in disease susceptibility, behavior, and many other organism-level characteristics (phenotypes). To understand the role that sporadic and induced mutations may play in the evolution of genome architecture and the inheritance of differences in behavioral, disease susceptibility, etc., we must understand the consequence of sequence and structural variants at both the population and molecular (systems genetics and biology) level.
  
• The two programs presented in sequence (spring and fall 2009) will build upon: 1) the present knowledge base on genome architecture of 2 critical research model organisms and the human and 2) the role that environmental toxicant interaction with individual genome structural variants play in heritable behavior and disease through mutation, evolution, and population genetics.
• For a summary of the meeting, see the article by Eddy Ball in the May 2009 issue of NIEHS's eFactor (see newsletter link)

GEMS 26th Annual Fall Meeting was held in the Radisson Hotel at Research Triangle Park, NC.