The Future of Evo-Devo - Genomes in context: Systems, populations and environment February 10-12, 2012 The Nines in Portland, OR www.evodevo2012.org Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to be able to extend deadlines for the early-bird registration fee and poster abstract submission for "The Future of Evo-Devo" symposium. • The hotel rooms with the group discount rate are filling fast and will expire January 16th, so please register soon! • The poster abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 22nd. Submission guidelines can be found at www.evodevo2012.org . • The symposium is almost full, so please register soon! Symposium registration closes February 3rd, or as soon as capacity is reached. The symposium is being organized by students and faculty affiliated with the University of Oregon's NSF IGERT program on evolution, development and genomics. It will be held February 10 - 12, 2012 in Portland, OR at the Nines Hotel. We have deliberately capped registration for this symposium in order to facilitate a more intimate environment and to encourage free discussion between attendees and speakers. We are rapidly approaching this limit, so if you are interested in attending, please register soon to ensure that you will be able to join us. The confirmed speakers includes: Peter Andolfatto (Princeton) Bill Bradshaw & Chris Holzapfel (University of Oregon) Anna Di Rienzo (University of Chicago) Stephen Giovannoni (Oregon State University) Paul Hohenlohe (University of Idaho) Alexander Johnson (UCSF) Michael Levine (Berkeley) Antonia Monteiro (Yale) Dave Parichy (University of Washington) John Postlethwait (University of Oregon) Matt Rockman (New York University) Karen Sears (University of Illinois) Gunter Wagner (Yale) Jens Walter (University of Nebraska) Shozo Yokoyama (Emory)