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Badges
Badges are
required
for admission to all sessions, the opening mixer, and the posters and exhibits in the Exhibit Hall.
Security officers will not allow individuals without badges to enter the Exhibit Hall. If you lose your badge, a replacement
may be requested at the Registration and Information Counters during posted registration hours. Badges may not be used by
anyone other than the registered attendee. Each attendee must have his/her own badge.
Employment Opportunities/Seeking Employment Notices – Convention Registration Desk
Individuals and institutions offering or seeking employment may post notices and résumés on the "Employment
Opportunities" bulletin boards set up near the Registration and Information Counters on the lobby level at the Convention
Registration Desk. Be sure to stop by the Convention Registration Desk and ask about the new Career Center now online at
www.genetics-gsa.org.
FlyBase Demonstrations – Mayfair Room, Level 2
FlyBase invites all Conference registrants to come to the demo room to learn how to make the best use of the new FlyBase
tools and features for your research and teaching. Throughout the day, other than the scheduled group presentations noted
below, FlyBase personnel are available in the demo room for one-on-one tutorials, troubleshooting and discussions. Any
thoughts on improvements we can make to FlyBase are gratefully appreciated.
Thursday
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Demo room open for tutorials and discussions
Presentations:
2:00pm-2:15pm:
"How High-Throughput Data are Informing Gene Models"
2:20pm-2:35pm:
"Using the New Quick Search"
Friday
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Demo room open for tutorials and discussions
Presentations:
3:45pm-4:00pm:
"How High-Throughput Data are Informing Gene Models"
4:05pm-4:20pm:
"Using the New Quick Search"
FlyMine Demonstrations – Arkansas, Level 2
FlyMine is an integrated database of genomics and proteomics data for Drosophila and other insects. modENCODE (model
organism ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) is a project designed to identify the sequence-based functional elements in D.
melanogaster and C.
elegans
. Explore how you can easily run a range of searches across these databases, construct your own
data mining searches, upload and analyze your own experimental results and view and download large datasets.
Thursday, 8 March to Saturday, 10 March
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Demo room open for tutorials and discussions
Talks will take place daily, at the following times:
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
FlyExpress
2:40 pm - 2:55 pm
FlyMine
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
modENCODE
4:25 pm - 4:40 pm
FlyMine
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
modENCODE