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PROGRAM in Partnership with and Hosted Virtually by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory July 13, 14, 15, 19 & 20 2021 PROGRAM In partnership with and hosted virtually by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory July 13, 14, 15, 19 & 20 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CSHL Historical Images: Cover: Students at the harbor, with Jones Laboratory on the right, circa 1897. Page 3: George Shull's field of hybrid corn, next to the Carnegie Laboratory, built 1905. (See: "The Composition of a Field of Maize," Journal of Heredity, Volume os‐4, Issue 1 (January 1908): 296–301.) Page 7: The propagating house. (Director Charles Davenport noted in 1906: “During the year, three greenhouses... have been completed. One of the houses is used during the winter, for the cultivation of lettuce and grasses required as food by the canaries and young poultry.”) Page 13: Students at CSHL, circa 1890‐1895. Page 17: Overview of the CSHL grounds. Around 1910, scientists at the Station for Experimental Evolution studied hereditary traits such as twin inheritance, extra nipples and double horns in sheep and goats, among other Mendelian characters. (These studies led Alexander Graham Bell to donate a black ram with 6 nipples and a 4‐horned, 3‐nippled sheep.) Back cover: Research laboratories at CSHL, ranging from the historic Jones Laboratory of 1893, the oldest laboratory in continuous use, to the newly built Hillside campus. (Photo circa 2015.) 2021 virtual meeting Program Directory Welcome from President Welcome from Program Chairs Officers and Committee Chairs 2019‐21 Template for the start times of talks and breaks Instructions to attendees, chairs, and presenters Twitter style guide Social media and recording etiquette guide Timetable Schedule Abstracts Index Sponsors 2021 virtual meeting Welcome from the President Hello! If there were an ISHPSSB Presidential sash, I’d gladly put it on, to welcome you in ceremonial splendor. But all I’ve got along those lines are some old conference goodies: a T‐shirt from Oslo (2019); a bag from São Paolo (2017); a folder from Salt Lake City (2011); and a bag from Exeter (2007). Here’s the result: For this 2021 edition of the conference, hosted virtually by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, there are no bags etc., alas. But there are sessions galore, spanning the usual, invigoratingly interdisciplinary range, and running in parallel over the course of five days. There are timely plenaries, on Darwin’s Descent of Man (150 years old this year), on the open data movement (25 years after the Bermuda Principles), and on “viral vulnerabilities” (all too current). There are meetings for the membership as a whole, to discuss Society business and celebrate the recipients of our 2021 prizes. And there are all manner of informal opportunities for learning and exchange, from community‐and‐skill‐ building sessions, to “Happy Office Hours” (kind of like coffee breaks at an in‐person ISH conference, but taking place inside a 1980s video game), to a virtual banquet. Reimagining an ISH conference for the online world has been no small feat. For rising to the occasion so imaginatively and energetically, I’d like to extend deepest thanks, on behalf of the Society, to David Stewart and his team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; to our Program Committee, chaired by Luis Campos and Roberta Millstein; and to our Virtual Local Organizing Committee, chaired by Matt Haber. Finally, I’d like to thank you, for the leap of faith you’ve made in joining us for this first virtual conference for the Society, and for your help from here in making it a success. Off we go! Or as they say on Long Island: you comin’ or what? Greg Radick 2021 virtual meeting Welcome from the Program Chairs Luis Campos and Roberta Millstein entered the maw of program planning for what was supposed to be an in‐person ISHPSSB meeting, long before the pandemic… … and celebrate the art of survival in 2021 with the launch of the final program for the virtual meeting! We would also like to express our gratitude to our hard‐working committee members, who have dedicated many hours to making this year’s meeting a success! Program Committee Virtual Local Organizing Committee Carlos Andres Barragán Matt Haber, chair Christina Brandt Rachel Ankeny Thierry Hoquet Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes Eben Kirksey Leonard Finkelman Celso Neto Javier Suárez Charles Pence Sophie Veigl Ciara Staunton Alex Aylward, assistant to the chairs 2021 virtual meeting ISHPSSB Officers and Committee Chairs 2019—2021 Council Education Committee Charbel El‐Hani (Co‐Chair) Officers: Isabella Sarto‐Jackson (Co‐Chair) Greg Radick, President Rachel Ankeny, President‐Elect Site Selection Committee Sarah Roe, Secretary Rachel A. Ankeny Laura Perini, Treasurer Luis Campos & Roberta Millstein, Program Co‐Chairs Student Advisory Committee Marsha Richmond, Immediate Past President Lucia Neco Elected Members: Operations Committee Jenny Bangham (2019–23) Rachel A. Ankeny Ingo Brigandt (2017–21) Vivette García Deister (2019–23) Travel Support Committee Emily Parke (2017–21) Laura Perini Jutta Schickore (2017–21) Joeri Witteveen (2019–23) Off‐Year Workshop Committee Matt Haber Student Representative: Lúcia Neco Membership Development Committee Ingo Brigandt (Co‐Chair) Committee Chairs Alan Love (Co‐Chair) Program Committee Nominations Committee Luis Campos Marsha Richmond Roberta Millstein David L. Hull Prize Committee Virtual Local Arrangements Committee Marsha Richmond Matt Haber Marjorie Grene and Werner Callebaut Prize Committee Communications Committee Sabina Leonelli Sarah Roe Ad‐hoc Bylaws Committee Marsha Richmond Many thanks to all of the above, and all the committee members, for their service! 2021 virtual meeting ISHPSSB 2021 Talk Schedule Template For traditional and individual paper sessions, please use the following template for when to begin and end talks/Q&A. Diverse format sessions, lightning talks, and other non‐traditional sessions will typically break from this format. Session 1 9:30‐10:55 Session 3 talks Session 5 talks 19:00‐20:25 14:30‐15:55 talks 9:30‐9:55 Paper 1 14:30‐14:55 Paper 1 19:00‐19:25 Paper 1 10:00‐10:25 Paper 2 15:00‐15:25 Paper 2 19:30‐19:55 Paper 2 10:30‐10:55 Paper 3 15:30‐15:55 Paper 3 20:00‐20:25 Paper 3 Session 2 11:05‐12:30 Session 4 talks 16:05‐17:30 Session 6 20:35‐22:00 talks talks 11:05‐11:30 Paper 1 16:05‐16:30 Paper 1 20:35‐21:00 Paper 1 11:35‐12:00 Paper 2 16:35‐17:00 Paper 2 21:05‐21:30 Paper 2 12:05‐12:30 Paper 3 17:05‐17:30 Paper 3 21:35‐22:00 Paper 3 2021 virtual meeting Instructions for ISH21 Attendees, Presenters & Chairs ● CSHL has been managing a lot of online conferences and aims to make the mechanics of presenting as easy as possible. To attend or give a talk, simply log in to the zoom link for the meeting and then select the relevant breakout room listed on the program. Once in the breakout room, presenters will be able to share their slides once they are introduced by session chairs. Zoom and other relevant links will be released closer to the start of the conference. ● For sessions without designated chairs (primarily the ‘individual papers sessions') we are asking presenters to self‐chair as follows: 3rd speaker chairs for the 1st speaker, 1st for the 2nd, and 2nd for the 3rd. Other tips, tricks, and instructions for attendees, presenters & chairs: ● Chairs will not have to manage the technical side of things; that’s CSHL’s job. Chairs should focus on a more traditional role, i.e., introducing sessions and speakers, helping manage time (with gentle reminders as time is running out), helping with Q&A, etc. ● For regular sessions, talks should run 15 minutes plus 10 minutes for Q&A. There will then be a 5‐minute break before the next talk begins. (Click here for a more detailed breakdown of when talks are scheduled.) We’ve learned that building in a little time between talks is wise in a virtual conference. ● Chairs should ask presenters to state their preference for whether their talks may be discussed on social media, and any constraints or restrictions they might request of those who do, e.g., speakers might be happy for people to post about their talks but ask that no images or recordings of their slides be shared. ● Please read and keep in mind our ISH21 Social Media and Recording Etiquette Guide. Social media can be a fun and great way to promote scholarship, but we ask you to respect speakers’ preferences on this. If a speaker grants permission to discuss their talk on social media, please follow our social media style guide. We have attached an image speakers may include on their slides if they do not want them posted on social media. ● At the beginning of Q&A chairs should ask the audience to either post questions in the chat or to electronically ‘raise’ their hand using the Zoom reaction feature. Chairs should help the speakers manage Q&A by offering to monitor and read questions that come up in the chat, and by managing the queue as hands are raised ‘electronically’. ● During Q&A please keep in mind the ISHPSSB tradition of prioritizing questions from junior scholars, and aim to include questions from a diverse group of people. ● Please mute your feed while others are presenting; you should only unmute when you are the speaker in a session, chairing a session (i.e., introducing a speaker or session or helping manage Q&A), or asking a question. ● Speakers are encouraged to include a Welcome/Acknowledgement of Country/Land statement in their talks, reflecting their local institutional customs. Here is an example from the University of Utah.
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