ASHG- American Society of Human Genetics 2010

ASHG Annual Meeting

Location: Washington D.C.
Date: November 2, 2010
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Organizers: American Society of Human Genetics

Meeting Summary

The Society's annual meeting is held each fall in a major U.S. or Canadian city and attracts nearly 5000 scientific attendees and trainees, plus 1500 exhibit personnel (250 exhibiting companies), making it the largest human genetics meeting in the world.

Highlighting each annual meeting are symposia, workshops and other sessions focusing on important research and clinical developments in human genetics that are presented by prominent professionals selected and invited by the program committee. ASHG members and others are selected to present their research findings at platform and poster sessions. Abstracts of work submitted for presentation at the annual meeting are published online and are citable. The annual meeting also offers the opportunity for attendees to survey services as well as state-of-the-art medical and laboratory equipment, products, and computer software designed to enhance human genetics research, teaching and consultation.

The 60th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics will be held in Washington, DC, from Tuesday, November 2 through Saturday, November 6, 2010. All ASHG scientific sessions, exhibits, posters and offices (unless otherwise indicated) will be located in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

2010 Attendance Benefits:

• 24 invited sessions (120 scientific, education and social issues presentations)
• 40 platform presentations (400 abstract-driven presentations)
• 6 plenary platform presentations and the Distinguished Speakers’ Symposium
• Special Symposium: Perspectives on Science from “Inside the Beltway”
• 3 days of over 2,500 poster presentations
• 3 workshops on genomic browser tools