Twenty

32nd Annual Meeting of the Texas Genetics Society
April 7-9, 2005
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
2222 Welborn St. (Near the UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Dallas, Texas

Letter of invitation from Christi Walter

Call for Abstracts (Deadline March 7, 2005)
1. Instructions for preparing abstract Here
2. Sample abstract
3. Submit abstract (Inactive)

Preliminary Schedule of Activities and Invited Speakers:
(Detailed schedule will be posted later)

April 7 Thursday Evening:
5pm - 8pm              Registration
6pm – 8pm             Reception
8pm – 9pm             Keynote Speaker (Note time change from printed schedule previously posted by U. S. Mail.)
Helen H. Hobbs, M.D. Professor and Director
McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
"Finding susceptibility genes for heart disease: The Dallas Heart Study"

April 8 Friday:
7:30am                    Late registration and continental breakfast
8:00am – 12noon     Contributed papers and poster viewing
                                Invited Speaker: Raymond Stallings, PhD, Children's Cancer Research Institute, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
12 noon – 1:30pm    Lunch on your own
1:30pm – 4:30pm     Contributed papers
                                Invited Speaker: Karen Vasquez, PhD, Science Park/Research Division, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville

6:00pm – 7:00pm     Reception and poster viewing
7:00pm – 8:30pm     Banquet and 2004-05 Barbara Bowman Distinguished Texas Geneticist Award- Dr. Robert J. Baker, Texas Tech University

April 9 Saturday:
7:30am                    Continental breakfast
8:00am – 11:30am   Contributed papers
                                Invited Speaker: Errol Friedberg, M.D., Professor and Chair, Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
11:30am – noon      Society Business meeting and Best Paper Awards announced
Adjourn

For further information about the 2005 Annual Meeting, contact:

Dr. Chris Walter, President                                       Dr. Rodney Nairn, President-elect and Program Chair
Dept Cellular & Structural Biol                                    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Univ Texas Health Science Center San Antonio      Science Park 1808 Park Road 1C
7703 Floyd Curl Dr                                                     Smithville, TX 78957
San Antonio,TX       78229-3900                                (512) 237-9464
(210) 567-3832                                                             rnairn@mdanderson.org
walter@uthscsa.edu