The 2003 West Coast Chromatin and Chromosomes Meeting
11-14 December 2003
Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California.
The 2003 Annual West Coast Chromatin and Chromosomes Meeting will be held 11-14
December 2003 in Pacific Grove, California. Now in its twenty-fifth year in the
spectacular Monterey Bay Area, this international meeting continues to provide
a unique forum for scientists at all levels to freely exchange exciting ideas
and results. We especially try to foster the development of young
scientists in training by encouraging them to speak at the meeting. Depending
on the schedule, talks generally run 10-15 minutes with 5 minutes for
questions. The meeting is relatively informal, with afternoons free for
conversation or sightseeing, and presentations held morning and evening. As in
the past, we expect to be able to accommodate all who wish to speak and we
encourage any and all participants – especially graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows - to volunteer papers.
This year's meeting will be held 11-14 December 2003 at the Asilomar Conference
Center, Pacific Grove, California. We'll begin with a social gathering at 5
p.m. on Thursday, and end by noon on Sunday. Your registration fee covers
refreshments, meals (from dinner Thursday through lunch on Sunday), and
lodging. Please note that registration and payment is due in full on October
15, 2003 (see accompanying registration form). If you are planning on
presenting, we ask that you send a title for your talk on the registration form
so we can plan the program. We hate to be firm about deadlines, but the meeting
is largely self-supporting, and our hosts at Asilomar require a substantial
deposit and commitment from us in advance. We'd like to encourage you to
register early, and we'll discount your registration fee $50 if we receive it
by 15 September 2003. Therefore we encourage you to register early. Note that
the American Society for Cell Biology meets from 13-17 December in San
Francisco (about a two-hour drive from Pacific Grove), so those of you
travelling from a long distance can plan on enjoying some extra time in the Bay
Area.
We are indebted to the journal BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY for their
continued sponsorship and kind support of this meeting. Abstracts and selected
minireviews will be published in BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY. More
information about the journal can be obtained at http://bcb.nrc.ca.
Authors should submit an abstract (about 200 words) of his or her talk at the
time of the meeting. We will send a reminder and specific instructions on
preparation of abstracts in October. Participants who wish to write a
minireview (about 5 journal pages, to be published together with abstracts in a
special edition of the journal) should submit a brief description of the
proposed topic, along with contact information, directly to Dr. Jim Davie, the
Editor of the journal (davie@cc.UManitoba.CA).
The editorial office will contact authors directly concerning deadlines and
other specifics.
Information on registration from:
Michael A. Goldman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
Internet: goldman@sfsu.edu
Tel: (415) 338-7671
Fax: (415) 338-6907 or -2295