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.

19th Annual Genetics Retreat
Friday, May 1, 2026 - Coffee and light breakfast at 8:15, Program 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Kavli Auditorim, Tata Hall, UC San Diego

Register by April 15: link

Keynotes:

Barbara J. Meyer, PhD "How the nematode dosage comensation machinery searches, populates, and rewires the X chromosome"	Jesse Engreitz, PhD "Mapping the regulatory wiring of the genome to link disease variants to functions"
Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator University of California, Berkeley Meyer lab: web site	Professor of Genetics BASE Research Initiative, Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center Stanford University School of Medicine Engreitz lab: web site

Student Speakers:
Elizabeth Chamiec-Case, Weston Elison, Jonathan Freshman, Trent Gomberg, Gabrielle Meza, Joseph Rainaldi, Rachel Weinstein

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

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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