KEYNOTE ADDRESS Annenberg Presidential Conference Center:

Personalized Cancer Therapy
at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

John Mendelsohn, MD
Director, Khalifa Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy
Past President, UT M D Anderson Cancer Center

Sponsored by the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and AT&T

INVITED ADDRESS:

The Genomics of Blow Fly Development: Advancing Research in Forensic Science and Sex Determination

Aaron Tarone, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION I-

Session Chair: Susan Naylor, PhD

Detection of Somatic Allelic Imbalance in Heterogeneous Samples
Selina Vattathil^1,2, Jerry Fowler², Paul Scheet^2,1
1Program in Human and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, ²Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION II --

Effects of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Chicken NK-Lysin Gene on Antimicrobial Activity and Cytotoxicity of Cancer Cells,
Mi Ok Lee¹, ², E. H. Kim³, H.J. Jang², H. J. Woo³, J. Y. Han², J. E. Womack^{1, 2
1}Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, WCU Biomodulation Major, ²Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, ³College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea

Lunch on your own and Genome Exhibit Viewing

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION III -
Session Chair: Joe Angel, PhD

Justin W. Wong^1,2, Louise C. Strong^1,2, Guillermina Lozano^1,2, and Ralf Krahe^1,2,
¹Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 77030, ²University of Texas-Houston Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences

Evidence for Variability in Silent Chromatin at the Ribosomal DNA Locus in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Rachel Jordan, John Mueller, and Mary Bryk,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics and the Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843-2128, USA

Genetic Diversity of White Tigers and Genetic Factors Related to Coat Color,
Sara Carney, Emilee Larkin, Bhanu Chowdhary, Jan E. Janecka,
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA

INVITED ADDRESS:

The History and the Future of the Genome Program at BCM-HGSC

Kim C. Worley, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION IV -
Session Chair: Patricia Howard-Peebles, PhD

Chromosome-wide Profiling of X Inactivation and Epigenetic Regulation in Opossum Fetal Brain and Extra-embryonic Membranes,
Xu Wang¹, Kory C. Douglas², Madhuri Jasti², Andrew G. Clark¹, Paul B. Samollow²,
¹Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA, ²Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA

Banquet and Meeting Awards
Annenberg Presidential Conference Center

Barbara Bowman Award Recipient
Distinguished Texas Geneticist

Professor Steve Daiger, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

INVITED ADDRESS:

Regulation of MHC Expression and Development of Immune Response

Koichi Kobayashi, PhD
Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION V -
Session Chair: Loren Skow, PhD

Coffee Break and Judges Meeting