Introduction
We are pleased to invite you to the 2018 Presidential Sesquicentennial Symposium: Genes, Urban Environments and Health. This event is co-organized by Genomics@Wayne, RoBUST, the School of Social work and CURES and will revolve around genomics and the impact of urban environments on human health. The program will include two plenary speakers, a panel discussion with experts and a student/trainee poster session. Before submiting an abstract, please Register in the main event website.
We strongly encourage early registration to help us to better plan for this event.
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Submissions of abstracts for poster presentations in any topic related to this symposium are welcome:
- Effects of toxicants, social stress, health disparities and other urban environments on the genome, the epigenome and life course.
- How can Wayne State University play a role in improving the health of Detroit?
- Should we sequence our personal genome for better health care?
- Urban microbiomes and health.
- Models to study environmental effects on healthy development and technologies to study gene by environment interactions.
We encourage early submission as a number of abstracts will be selected for a Poster Walk and for the best poster competition. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to September 4th and for registration, September 7th, 2018.
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Important Date
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Sep 14
2018
Conference Date
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Aug 03 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
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Aug 03 2018
Draft paper submission deadline
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