We will happily include any announcements for genetics-based meetings in this section. Please email your items to theteam@genetics.org.uk

2012 Meetings

Mouse Models of Disease–linking in vivo observations to pathology endpoints
1 - 3 February 2012
https://registration.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/display_info.asp?id=260
enquiries@euroscicon.com
www.regonline.co.uk/bacteriophage2012

Cell culture technology: recent advances, future prospects
9th March 2012
BioPark Hertfordshire, UK
enquiries@euroscicon.com
www.regonline.co.uk/cellculture2010

The Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance
Joint Meeting of The Physiological Society and the British Pharmacological Society together with the Journal of Physiology, Experimental Physiology, British Journal of Pharmacology and The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (published by Wiley-Blackwell)
19 - 21 March 2012
London, UK
www.physoc.org/meetings

56th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Genetics Group
10th-12th April 2012, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University
This meeting is sponsored by the Genetics Society and the Britis Ecological Society

 All scientists working in population genetics and evolutionary ecology are welcome to attend, talks and posters are welcomed from scientists of all stages, from students giving their first presentation to senior academics presenting completed work. The 2011 EGG meeting was attended by participants from twelve countries.  For the meeting we have two world class plenary speakers, Professor Paul Brakefield from Cambridge University, and Professor John Willis from Duke University. Further details are available on the conference web site or from the conference organiser Richard Ennos rennos@ed.ac.uk

7th International Meeting on CNVs and Genes in Intellectual Disability and Autism
13th and 14th April 2012, Troina (Italy)
For further information please click here.

Bioinformatics for Genetics Scientists
22-23 May 2012
For more information please click here.

13th MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry SUMMER SCHOOL 18th - 22th June 2012
The Summer School provides an introduction into the technical and conceptual aspects of behavioural genomics and consists of three, parallel 5-day courses involving both lectures and practical sessions in addition to shared lectures from experts in the field. This year’s courses are in:
I) Analysis of Genetic Association Studies (Scientific Directors: Cathryn Lewis and Tom Price)
II) Introduction to R (Scientific Directors: Leonard Schalkwyk, Matt Davies & Oliver Davis)
III) Introduction to Molecular Methods in Functional Genomics (Scientific Directors: Cathy Fernandes and Emma Dempster)

Applications are made via our website from 1st December 2011 and require some background information and reasons for applying to the program. Applications will be accepted until courses are full, with a final application date of June 1st. Further details are available from the web
or e-mail any questions to us.

Fundamentals of Next Generation Sequencing
19 June 2012
For more information please click here.

The Fourth MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomic Summer School in Brain Disorder Research
2-5 July 2012, Cardiff University
For more details please click here.  Registration deadline 13th April 2012. 

Physiology 2012
Main Meeting of The Physiological Society
3 - 5 July 2012
Edinburgh, UK
www.physiology2012.org

European Microscopy Congress 2012
16 - 21 September 2012
Manchester Central, Manchester, UK
http://www.emc2012.org.uk/