Annual Retreat 2009

August 2009 Section on Statistical Genetics (SSG) Two-day offsite retreat
(8/11 -8/12, 2009)

Birmingham Zoo, Inc.
2630 Cahaba Road
Birmingham, AL 35223

**Tue 8/11/2009**
Time	Topic		Speakers
8:00 AM	Welcome & Coffee
8:30 AM	Scientific Session I	8:30-8:50 8:50-9:10 9:10-9:30 9:30-9:50 9:50-10:10 10:10-10:30	Guimin Gao PhD Guolian Kang PhD Nianjun Liu PhD Boshao Zhang PhD Kui Zhang PhD Nick Pajewski PhD
11:00 AM	Lunch & Big Picture Meeting
1:00 PM	Break-out sessions & walk around the Zoo		Group 1: Faculty Group 2: Fellows Group 3: Students Group 4: Programmers Group 5: Staff
3:00 PM	Session II
		3:00-3:20 3:20-3:40 3:40-4:00 4:00-4:20 4:20-4:40 4:20-5:00	L. Kelly Vaughan PhD Mark Beasley PhD Yann Klimentidis PhD Richard Reynolds PhD Kiya Hamilton PhD Jun Li
5:00 PM	Zoo closes

**Tue 8/11/2009**
Time	Topic		Speakers
8:00 AM	Welcome & Coffee
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Session III	8:30-8:50 8:50-9:10 9:10-9:30 9:30-9:50 9:50-10:10	David B. Allison PhD Charity Morgan PhD Mary Wojczynski PhD Nengjun Yi PhD Shravan Gopal MS
10:15 AM	BREAK
10:30 AM	Group reports & discussions		Faculty, Fellows, Students, Programmers, Staff
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM	Lunch & walk around Zoo
3:00 PM	Session IV	3:00-3:20 3:20-3:40 3:40-4:00 4:00-4:20 4:20-4:40	Hemant Tiwari PhD Xiangqin Cui PhD Degui Zhi PhD Richard Kennedy MD PhD Nathan Wineinger
5:00 PM	Zoo closes