Skirting Mendel: Non-Classical Mechanisms of Phenotypic Variation, Inheritance and Disease, hosted by Keystone Symposia will be held March 15 –19, 2020 at Whistler Conference Center in British Columbia, Canada. This is an exciting program that will appeal to geneticists, epigenomicists, chromatin biologists, developmental biologists, mathematicians, physiologists and clinical scientists. The symposium will be hosted together with the Higher-Order Chromatin Architecture in Time and Space.  You can find all of the details and registration information at keystonesymposia.org/20X4. The registration date is just weeks away (Feb1) and there are still short talk slots available.

**The speaker list for the variation half of the meeting is below!

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The Royal Society organizes a meeting entitled ‘Big data for better science: technologies for measuring behaviour’. This meeting, which takes place on 4 – 5 February 2019, will discuss the use of ‘big’ high-quality data sets in behavioural science. These meetings aim to provide a platform for leaders in the field, as well as early career scientists, to meet for networking and discussion. More information on the speakers and programme can be found on our website.

Registration for this meeting is free, but participants are required to register in advance of the meeting.

THIS YEAR’S BGA ANNUAL MEETING TOOK PLACE IN BOSTON, June 20-23, WITH LOCAL HOST BEN NEALE

Highlights of the program were keynotes by Professors Hill Goldsmith, Mark Daly, Elise Robinson, and Bill Iacono. You can find the program HERE.

We congratulate the following BG members that were awarded:

• Thompson Award: Fleur Meddens
• Rowe Award: Spencer Huggett

• Fulker Award: Pierre Roubertoux et al. (doi: 10.1007/s10519-017-9835-5)
• Fuller Scott Award: Lucia Colodro Conde, Scott Vrieze
• Dobzhansky Award: Margaret Gatz
• FABBS Award: Karin Verweij

The 47th Behavior Genetics Annual Meeting was held in Oslo, Norway, from June 28th to July 1st, 2017. 

The Opening Reception was in the beautiful Oslo City Hall, with a warm word of welcome from the Mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen. You can find the program HERE.

During the banquet the following BGA members were awarded! Congratulations to:

• Rowe: Laurence Tanguay-Garneau
• Thompson: Emily Smith-Woolley
• Fuller-Scott: Karen Verweij
• Fulker: Jenae Neiderhiser and Valerie Knopik
• Dobzhansky: William G (Bill) Iacono

And we thank the following members who donated for travel bursaries: Anna Docherty and Michael Stallings.

The BGA annual meeting was held in Brisbane, Australia, 21-23 June 2016, with local host Sarah Medland. This was the program!

More info about the meeting can be found HERE.

2015 BGA Annual Meeting, San Diego, California

The 2015 BGA meeting took place June 17-20 at the Omni Hotel in San Diego. Local hosts:  Bill Kremen and Carol Franz. 

Find here the 2015 program.

Some highlights:

• Go through the slides of the wonderful keynote of Larry Smarr on Human Brain-Gut Microbiome-Immune System Dynamics
• Explore the website of Meta-Analysis of 50 years of twin studies!