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Thanks to all who attended and contributed to the vitality of the meeting. Our final attendence was 332 people with just over half of the attendees registered as students or postdocs. New records were also set in numbers of abstracts (223) and ambient temperature (109°F in Tucson on Saturday). The early morning poster sessions worked very well and we will be recommending to the next committee that they be continued. It was an enjoyable meeting and a summary of the talks will be prepared for publication in Developmental Dynamics
Skopy Award Winners
Best Platform Presentation by a student or postdoc- Matthew Goddeeris, Duke University.
Novatis Best Poster Award- Anne Foley, The Burnham Institute
Novartis Poster Award- Leigh Compton, Vanderbilt University
Novartis Poster Award- Bin Zou, Vanderbilt University
Novartis Poster Award- Audrey Holtzinger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Travel Awards (supported by grants from NHLBI and American Heart Association's Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young)
Joy Lincoln, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Tomoki Nakamura, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Yasuo Ischii, Weill Medical College
Monica Zamora, UC San Diego
Joshua Wythe, University of Utah
Stephan Lange, King's College London
Gregor Andelfinger, Institut De Recherches Cliniques De Montreal
Xianghu Qu, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Godderis, Duke University
Louise Honeyman, University of Nottingham
Jun Takeuchi, Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
At the business meeting, John Burch (Fox Chase Cancer Center) and Katherine Yutzey (Cinncinnati Children's Hospital) were elected to serve as at large members on the National Weinstein Meeting. They will join the organizers of the last 2 conferences (Adriana Gittenberger De Groot, Leiden, Raymond Runyan, Arizona) and the organizers of the next three conferences (Kersti Linask, South Florida, Loren Field, Indiana, Robert Schulz, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) in serving on the committee.
The 2008 meeting was added to the schedule. It will be hosted by a group of laboratories and institutions at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The lead organizer is Robert Schulz of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Laboratories at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A & M IBT will be involved
Full abstracts are posted. To prevent greater access to unpublished data on the web a name and password are required. These were emailed to all registered attendees before the meeting. Those needing access can contact us for the password.
NIH Links- Dr. Schramm, from NHLBI, has provided a page with links to NIH resources