April 24 - 28, 2010
Montreal, Canada

Conference Scope:
This meeting will bring together researchers interested in all aspects of specialized recombination, from the biological to the structural and mechanistic. Research probing transposition in diverse organisms – including eubacteria, archaea, protists, plants, and animals – will be presented to showcase diversity of transposable elements and their genomic consequences and to underscore unifying principles.

Principal Organizers:
Daniel F. Voytas, PhD
University of Minnesota

Henry Levin, PhD
National Institutes of Health

Co-organizers:
George Chaconas, PhD
The University of Calgary

Nancy Craig, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Cedric Feschotte, PhD
University of Texas, Arlington

Phoebe A. Rice, PhD
The University of Chicago