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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:
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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
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Past retreat pages and keynote speakers:
Long Cai |
Stanley Crooke |
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Harmit Malik |
Lisa Ikemoto |
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Louise Laurent |
Martin Kampmann |
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Paul Sternberg |
Hopi Hoekstra |
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Valina Dawson |
Vaughn Cooper |
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Matt Might |
Alice Ting |
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Rudolf Jaenisch |
Jeannie Lee |
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Lucy Shapiro |
Leonid Kruglyak |
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Eric Green |
Sarah Tishkoff |
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Stephen Quake |
David Botstein |
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Joseph Gleeson |
Elaine Fuchs |
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Herbert Boyer |
Andrew Fire |
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Eric Lander |
Hank Greeley |