The Conference committee invites you to attend the 44th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, sponsored by The Genetics Society of America. The Conference will be held on March 5 through March 9, 2003, in Chicago, Illinois, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers.
The Conference will open on Wednesday evening, March 5, with an opening session from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm, followed by a mixer from 9:00 pm until 12:00 midnight in the Ballroom Promenade. The closing plenary session will take place from 9:00 am until 12:30 pm on Sunday, March 9.
The organizing committee includes Dennis McKearin, Helmut Kramer and John Abrams (2003 program chairs). They may be reached at the following e-mail addresses:
dennis.mckearin@UTSouthwestern.edu
helmut.kramer@UTSouthwestern.edu
john.abrams@UTSouthwestern.edu
Officers and Regional Representatives of the Drosophila Board
| Barbara Wakimoto | President | University of Washington |
| Trudi Schupbach | Past President | Princeton University |
| Steven Wasserman | Past President & Elections Chair | University of California, San Diego |
| Steven Mount | Treasurer (Retiring) | University of Maryland |
| Rick Fehon | Treasurer (Incoming) | Duke University |
| Paul Lasko | Canada | McGill University |
| Sean Carroll | Great Lakes | University of Wisconsin |
| Susan Parkhurst | Northwest | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| Amy Bejsovec | Southeast | Duke University |
| Judith Lengyel | California | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Robert Boswell | Heartland | University of Colorado |
| Laurel Raftery | New England | Harvard University |
| Denise Montell | Mid-Atlantic | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Jeff Simon | Midwest | University of Minnesota |
Sponsored by The Genetics Society of America
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998
Telephone: (301) 571-1825
Fax: (301) 634-7079
e-mail: society@genetics-gsa.org
Image of Drosophila melanogaster courtesy of Randy Comer, ©Exploratorium.
