Chick Meeting – Registration now open

Registration for the Seventh International Chick meeting, ‘Chick 7: Avian Model Systems’, to be held in Nagoya, Japan in November 2012, is now open. Please visit the chick meeting homepage , to register. A small fee (15,000yen/10,000yen for students) will be charged which will include the mixers, lunches and the closing party.

We are also very pleased to announce a limited number of travel awards of 40,000yen for students/postdocs from outside Japan and of 15,000 yen for students/postdocs from Japan. If you wish to apply for the awards, please indicate on the registration page.

4 outstanding keynote lectures are programmed:

Makoto Manabe – A new look at the evolution of dinosaurs to modern birds
Craig Smith – Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Avian Sex Determination
Shinji Iijima – Germline transgenesis of chicken
Olivier Pourquie – Patterning of the vertebrate embryonic axis.

In addition, a number of speaking opportunities are available in most sessions. Please indicate during abstract submission if you would like to be considered as a speaker.

We look forward to welcoming you to Japan this November.

Please feel free to pass on this information to any of colleagues who may be interested.