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.

17th Annual Genetics Retreat
Friday, May 24, 2024

Duane Roth Auditorim, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, UC San Diego

Register by May 15: (link)

Keynotes:

Long Cai Stanley Crooke

Long Cai, PhD

"What Have We Learned from Spatial Biology?"

Stanley Crooke, MD, PhD

"How Antisense Technology Came To Be"

Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech

Lab web site

 

Founder and CEO, n-Lorem Foundation and Executive Chairman, Ionis Pharmaceuticals

LinkedIn profile web site

 


Student and Faculty Speakers:
Chris Balak, Maya Gosztyla, Alyssa Holman, Pratibha Jagannatha, Boijing Jia, Rebecca Melton

Posters from G2-G4 students.

Sponsors
We gratefully acknowldege support from institutional sponsors:

UC San Diego Department of Medicine,
UC San Diego Department of Pediatrics, and
UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences

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Past retreat pages and keynote speakers:

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