International Congress of Global Chinese Geneticists

The International Congress of Global Chinese Geneticists(ICGCG2006) will be held from August 2 to August 4, 2006 in Beijing, China. The Congress is co-organized by Peking University, the Association of Chinese Geneticists in America, the Chinese Society of Medical Genetics, the Taiwan Human Genetics Society, the Hong Kong Society of Medical Genetics, the National Genome Institute of Singapore, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and Wenzhou Medical College. The mission of the congress is to promote global communication and collaboration amongst Chinese geneticists and geneticists around the world. The Congress program will be focus on phamacogenomics, developmental genomics, functional genomics, bioinformatics and biostatistics, genetic ethical issues, molecular basis of human diseases, clinical genetics, cancer genetics, and stem cell research presented in symposia, plenary sessions, platform presentations, and poster presentations. For more information please visit the congress website at:

http://www.pku.edu.cn/announce/news/news976.htmand http://pucmg.pku.edu.cn/icgcg2006.htm

or contact Dr. Marilyn M. Li, at mli2@tulane.edu  and Professor Youxiang Chiu at chiuyouxiang@sohu.com .