COMPARATIVE
GENOMICS
Graduate Education at the University
of Arizona supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation
program for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships
(IGERT)
VISITING SCIENTISTS AND SYMPOSIA
Visiting scientists and symposia are important elements of our program. We host a two day symposium each year featuring 4-5 invited speakers who are major contributors in the fields of functional genomics, computational developments, and/or evolutionary theory. The theme of these meetings varies annually to include a wide variety of research topics thus more fully representing the different core areas of our IGERT while still promoting focused group interactions centered on key new research areas. These symposia remain relatively small in size to encourage in depth interaction between IGERT students and visiting speakers. Many of our students have identified prospective post-doctoral mentors through these interactions.Each meeting includes a poster session in which students present their research from individual projects, or from group projects undertaken as part of the IGERT courses. These poster sessions provide a stimulating environment for discussions and feedback between students and visiting scientists.
Previous Visiting Scientists