| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Interfacing Complexity Theory and Quantitative Genetics |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Walter Fontana (Santa Fe Institute)
"RNA folding as a statistical toy-model of a genotype-phenotype relation" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mark Cooper (Pioneer Hi-Bred)
"Virtual Plant Breeding: Using the E(NK) model to ask questions" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Complex Traits in Plants |
| Discussion Leader: Fred Hospital (INRA,France) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Claire Williams (Texas A & M University)
"Lessons for Higher Plants: Genetics and Genomic Architecture of Conifers" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute and Salk Institute)
"Quantitative variation in light signaling and flowering in Arabidopsis thalianan" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Doug Schemske (Michigan State University)
"Ecological Genetics of Adaptation and Speciation in Plants" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Analysis of Human Populations |
| Discussion Leader: Shizhong Xu (UC Riverside) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jaya Satagopa (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"Two-stage designs for genome scanning" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Laura Almasy (Southwest Foundation)
"Quantitative traits as risk factors for complex disease" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Statistical Genetics |
| Discussion Leader: Rebecca Doerge (Purdue) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Dan Gianola (University of Wisconsin)
"Canons and Fugues in Bayesian Quantitative Genetics" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Sally Otto (University of British Columbia)
"The distribution of QTL effects: Theory and inference" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Sara Knott (University of Edinburg)
"Potential and pitfalls of multitrait QTL analyses" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolutionary Genetics |
| Discussion Leader: Patrick Phillips (University of Oregon) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Mark Blows (University of Queensland)
"The quantitative genetic basis of the response to sexual and natural selection on mate recognition" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Trevor Price (University of California at San Diego)
"Phenotypic plasticity, genetic assimilation and peak shifts" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Analysis of Microarray data |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Newton (University of Wisconsin) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Christina Kendzorski (University of Wisconsin)
"Statistical Considerations for Experimental Design and the Assessment of Differential Expression inMicroarray Studies" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Kathleen Kerr (University of Washington)
"Statistical Design and Analysis of Spotted Microarrays" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Doug Crawford (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
"Evolutionary Analysis of the Natural Variation in Gene Expression" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Student Presenations |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Hill (University of Edinburgh) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Patricia Beldade (UC Irvine)
"The genetic basis of quantitative variation in butterfly wing patterns" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Colin Meiklejohn (Harvard)
"Transcription Profiles and the Genetic Basis for Haldane's Rule" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm |
Business meeting
Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Complex Traits in Animals |
| Discussion Leader: Margaret Dentine (University of Wisconsin) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Bill Muir (Purdue University)
"Generalized Methods of Environmental Risk Assessment For Transgenic Organisms" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Sue Denise (MMI Genomics)
"Dense maps, genome-wide associations and millions of genotypes - lessons learned from building diagnostic tools with SNPs" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | John Quackenbush (The Institute for Genomic Research)
"Integrating Genes, Genomes, Metabolism, and Expression" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular and Metabolic Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic variation |
| Discussion Leader: Stig Omholt (Agricultural University of Norway) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dominique de Vienne (INRA/UPS/CNRS/INA)
"Evolutionary optimization of constrained metabolic systems" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Suzanne Rutherford (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"Regulation of canalization and evolvability by Hsp90" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
