ASILOMAR
CHROMATIN AND CHROMOSOMES CONFERENCE
(formerly West Coast Chromatin and Chromosomes Meeting)
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31st
International Conference
December 10 -
December 13, 2009
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Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, California
Organizers:
Mike Goldman, San
Francisco State University
Jeff Hansen, Colorado
State University
Cynthia McMurray,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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October
2009
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to the 31st Annual Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes
Conference (a.k.a. the West Coast Chromatin and Chromosomes Meeting),
to be held 10-13 December 2009 (Thursday through Sunday). Now in its
thirty-first year in the spectacular Monterey Bay Area, this
international
meeting continues to provide a unique forum for scientists at all
levels to freely exchange exciting ideas and results. We especially try
to foster the development of young scientists in training by
encouraging them to speak at the meeting. Depending on the schedule,
talks generally run 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions. The
meeting is relatively informal, with afternoons free for conversation
or sightseeing, and presentations held morning and evening. As in the
past, we expect to be able to accommodate all who wish to speak and we
encourage any and all participants- -graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows in particular- -to volunteer papers.
This year’s meeting will be held 10-13 December 2009, at the Asilomar
Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California. We’ll begin with dinner
at 6 p.m. on Thursday, and end by noon on Sunday. Your
registration fee covers refreshments, meals (from dinner Thursday
through lunch on Sunday), and lodging. Please note that registration and
payment are due in full on November 13, 2009. However, we would
appreciate it if you could help us by sending your registration form by
e-mail to goldman@sfsu.edu by 10/29/09 (and then mail your
registration
form and payment by 11/13/09). If you are planning
on presenting, we ask that you send a title for your talk on the
registration form so we can plan the program. We hate to be firm about
deadlines, but the meeting is largely self-supporting, and our hosts at
Asilomar require a substantial deposit and commitment from us in
advance.
We are indebted to the journal Biochemistry and Cell Biology for their
continued sponsorship and kind support of this meeting. Abstracts and
selected minireviews will be published in Biochemistry and Cell
Biology. More information about the journal can be obtained at
http://bcb.nrc.ca. As last year, each author should plan on submitting
an abstract (about 200 words) of his or her talk at the time of the
meeting. We will send a reminder and specific instructions on
preparation of abstracts in November. Dr. Jim Davie, editor of the
journal and an avid participant in the Asilomar Chromatin and
Chromosomes Conference, has requested that participants who wish to
write a minireview (about 5 journal pages, to be published together
with abstracts in a special edition of the journal) should submit a
brief description of the proposed topic, along with contact
information, directly to him (davie@cc.UManitoba.CA). The editorial
office will contact authors directly concerning deadlines and other
specifics. Abstracts are
due at the meeting. Instructions for travel and abstracts
preparation will be posted on the meeting web page
(online.sfsu.edu/~mgoldman/ACCC.htm) prior to the meeting. All
abstracts
are oral presentations; there is no poster session.
A tentative 2009 program will be available online just before the
meeting. If you wish to view the programs from previous meetings,
they are archived on this web page.
Please pass this information on to potentially interested colleagues
who may not have received this announcement for one reason or another.
You may send any mailing list additions, corrections or duplications to
Mike (goldman@sfsu.edu). Also, if you have any suggestions for
meeting sponsors, please forward their contact info to us!
Please
feel free to contact one of us if you have any questions. We look
forward to seeing you in December!
Mike
Goldman (goldman@sfsu.edu)
Jeff
Hansen (jeffrey.c.hansen@colostate.edu)
Cynthia
McMurray (ctmcmurray@lbl.gov)
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Links
of interest to ACCC attendees:
Upcoming Chromatin
Meetings:
Journals:
Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Publisher of ACCC Abstracts
James Davie, Editor & ACCC Sponsor/Participant
Journal main page link
Author
information
Copyright
form to be submitted to BCB
Chromosome
Research
Cytogenetics, Genomics, Chromatin & The Nucleus
Journal
main page link
Author
information link
Chromatin web pages:
The Plant Chromatin Database, ChromDB (www.chromdb.org)
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Page updated 11/08/09
Questions about webpage??
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