Online edition 22-24 September 2021
Dear AGI Members,
We are pleased to announce that this year’s National Congress will be held September 22-24, 2021 in virtual mode. Program, deadlines and general information are available at the event website: https://agi2021.centercongressi.com/home.php
The deadline for submission of the abstract is August 31, 2021. Together with the abstract it is necessary to submit the poster that will be presented, even if in a preliminary version. The final version can be submitted by September 10. For those who wish, within September 10 it is possible to submit also a short video presentation of the poster (maximum 3 minutes).
A very advantageous registration fee has been reserved for AGI Members. Below are the early registration fees, valid until August 31, 2021:
Structured – AGI Member: € 120
Structured – Non-member AGI: € 170
Unstructured: € 50
Session topics:
- Evolution in action: a genome perspective
- Chromosomes in the XXI century
- Phase separation in genome organization
- Genome editing and its applications
Keynote speakers:
- Svante Paabo – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)
- Feng Zhang – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
Confirmed Invited speakers:
- Silvia Barabino (Università degli studi Milano Bicocca)
- Giorgio Bertorelle (Università degli studi di Ferrara)
- Tommaso Cavazza (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)
- Francesco Chemello (University of Texas Southwestern)
- Anna Cereseto (Università degli studi di Trento)
- Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna (IFOM)
- Valentino Gantz (UCSD San Diego)
- Zachary Lippman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Glennis Longsdon (University of Washington)
- Francesco Maura (University of Miami)
- Karen H. Miga (UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute)
- Riccardo Papa (University of Puerto Rico)
- Elsa Zacco (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia).
For any special request, please contact the Organizing Secretariat (info@jeangilder.it)
With the hope of seeing many of you at the Congress, we send you many cordial greetings,
Il Organizing Committee
AGI board of directors, Vittoria Brambilla, Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna, Silvia Ghid’Adda di Fagagna, Silvia Ghirotto, and Mariano Rocchi