A CARTA Symposium entitled, "The Genetics of Humanness", will be held April 8th, 2011. On Friday afternoon, there will be a Public Symposium from 1:00-5:00 p.m. in the Liebow Auditorium, second floor of the Basic Science Building on the UCSD School of Medicine Campus in La Jolla. Below is a list of Confirmed Speakers and their talk titles.

Admission is free, but registration is required by sending an e-mail to: cartaadmin@ucsd.edu

The Genetics of Humanness

Symposium Chairs
Ajit Varki, University of California, San Diego
Elaine Mardis, Washington University, St. Louis

SPEAKERS
Elaine Mardis, Washington University, St. Louis, The Orangutan Genome
Richard Green, UC Santa Cruz, The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
Evan Eichler, University of Washington, Segmental Duplications/Deletions
Alysson Moutri, UCSD, Genetic Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells
Katie Pollard, UCSF, Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome
James Noonan, Yale University, Uniquely Human Gene Regulation
Yoav Gilad, University of Chicago, Comparing Immune Response Pathways in Primates
Gena Konopka, University of Texas, Southwestern, Human-Specific Signaling Networks
Ajit Varki, UCSD, Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

Sponsored by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, Mt. Kisco, New York and Annette C. Merle-Smith