We are excited to welcome Cedric Feschotte, Ph.D. from the University of Utah School of Medicine as our keynote speaker at this year's annual retreat. Dr. Feschotte is a world expert on the study of mobile genetic elements and evolutionary biology. His talk is entitled "Fighting fire with fire: endogenous retroviruses orchestrate the innate immune response." Dr. Feschotte recently published a paper in Science that highlights this work (Chuong, et al., Science 2016, PMID: 26941318).

The program will begin at 1:00 with 20-minute talks by three senior Genetics Training Program trainees (Peter Larson, Matthew Pauly, and Beatriz Otero Jiménez). The keynote lecture by Dr. Feschotte will begin at 2:00, followed by a poster session and reception in the BSRB A/B/C Seminar Rooms from 3:00-5:00.