This is a first announcement and call
for speakers for a Royal Entomological Society Special Interest Group on Insect
Genomics, to be held on Monday 26th November 2012 at St John's College
Cambridge. The goal is to bring together both genomics practitioners and those
who are just starting out or planning to use genomics techniques in Entomology.
Invited speakers will be Mark Blaxter (The GenePool, Edinburgh), Dan Lawson,
(European Bioinformatics Institute and i5k initiative) and Lin Field
(Rothampstead Research). We hope to cover a range of topics including new
technologies, bioinformatic challenges and specific projects across entomology
that involve genomic techniques.
We encourage participants to join the
Royal Entomological Society, although membership is certainly not a
prerequisite for attendance. There will be a small charge for attendance (~£10).
Please put the date in your diary, and
contact Nicola Nadeau <njn27@cam.ac.uk>
if you would a) like to contribute a talk please submit a title and short abstract
or b) plan to attend.
Chris Jiggins and Nicola Nadeau
