The School of Medicine's Genome Sequencing Center is hosting the Fifth International Conference on Automation in Mapping and DNA Sequencing Wednesday, Oct. 7, through Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Eric P. Newman Center. At 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, there will be a banquet at St. Louis' City Museum. At 9 p.m., James D. Watson, Ph.D., president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and co-discoverer of the genetic code, will speak about the future of genome sequencing.
The conference is attracting leaders in the Human Genome Project, which aims to decipher the DNA blueprints of humans and several experimental organisms. About 200 researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Australia will attend.
"The purpose is to keep up to date with the most recent developments in automation, which have been crucial for increasing throughput and decreasing the cost of DNA sequencing," said Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics and co-director of the Genome Sequencing Center. Wilson is co-chairing the conference with Jane Rogers, Ph.D., of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, England.
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