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Annual Retreat

Each 5th year class organizes our Annual Retreat, featuring student-invited keynotes, faculty speakers, their own research talks, and posters from all program students. Full program and photos can be found on pages for each year's event.

18th Annual Genetics Retreat
Friday, May 23, 2025

Kavli Auditorim, Tata Hall, UC San Diego

Register by May 15: link

Keynotes:

Professor Denise Montell Professor Jeffrey Moffitt

Denise Montell, PhD

"From Drosophila border cells to RaceCAR immunotherapy, a journey"

Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD

"Imaging the microbe-host interface with genomic microscopy"

Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

University of California, Santa Barbara

Faculty bio: web site

Professor of Microbiology

Harvard Medical School

Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital

Faculty bio: web site


Student and Faculty Speakers:
Kween Agba, Mike Cuoco, AJ Daniels, Xioami Du, Sam Hatch, Mitchell Kong, Brittany Leger, Rachel McMillen, Hannah Mummey, Mei Okino

Posters from G2-G4 students.

Sponsors
We gratefully acknowldege support from institutional and community partners:

UC San Diego Department of Pediatrics,
UC San Diego Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and 
UC San Diego Department of Medicine

10X Genomics

 

 

UC San Diego Health Sciences logo

 

 

 

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Past retreat pages and keynote speakers:

2024

Long Cai

Stanley Crooke

2023

Harmit Malik

Lisa Ikemoto

2022

Louise Laurent

Martin Kampmann

2021

Paul Sternberg

Hopi Hoekstra

2020

Valina Dawson

Vaughn Cooper

2019

Matt Might

Alice Ting

2018

Rudolf Jaenisch

Jeannie Lee

2017

Lucy Shapiro

Leonid Kruglyak

2016

Eric Green

Sarah Tishkoff

2015

Stephen Quake

David Botstein

2014

Joseph Gleeson

Elaine Fuchs

2013

Herbert Boyer

Andrew Fire

2012

Eric Lander

Hank Greeley