4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium going fully virtual!

To account for the recent and current developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have decided to move the planned in-person meeting to October 2021 as the 5th Uppsala Transposon Symposium – integrating transposon and virus identification into evolution and disease research. The topic + speaker line-up will be as initially planned for this year, and registration will be free as usual.

This year’s fully virtual meeting with be slightly refocused as the 4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium – highlighting transposon and retrovirus research during Covid19 will be a fully virtual free symposium and will take place on the initially planned dates September 30 – October 02, 2020. Tentative meeting hours will be 15:00-19:00 CEST on each of these days.

Free registration and abstract submission for regular talks/lightning talks/posters will open in early August. Early-career researchers are especially encouraged to submit abstracts!

Please stay safe everyone!

4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium during Covid-19

The previous and upcoming months have been and will be quite unpredictable. We have good news though: The 4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium will take place as planned on September 30 – October 02.

Note that we will provide a livestream of the meeting for registered users who can’t make it to the meeting in person, and are prepared to organize the meeting entirely on a virtual basis. All this depends on the development of the Covid-19 situation over the summer.

Please stay safe everyone!

Save the date: 4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium

We are excited to announce another edition of the Uppsala Transposon Symposium series:

4th Uppsala Transposon Symposium – integrating transposon and virus identification into evolution and disease research, September 30 – October 02, 2020.

Please save the date!

Practicalities and deadlines:

• Thanks to conference support by SciLifeLab and Vetenskapsrådet, registration will be free as in previous years to allow scientists from all career stages to attend.
• Registration will open in late May with the chance to submit an abstract for a talk, lightning talk, or poster until end of August.
• Days 1 and 2 (symposium) will provide an interdisciplinary road map to overcome TE and EV knowledge gaps in evolution and disease research.
• Day 3 (workshop) will provide cutting-edge training and problem-solving sessions for meeting participants.

Venue

SciLifeLab, Meetingplace Navet and Trippelrummet (E10:1309), Uppsala Biomedical Center (BMC)

Invited speakers:

• Irina Arkhipova (Marine Biological Laboratory)
• John Coffin (Tufts University)
• Molly Hammell (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Aris Katzourakis (University of Oxford)
• Alice Eunjung Lee (Harvard University)
• Kenji Kojima (Genetic Information Research Institute)
• Dixie Mager (University of British Columbia)
• Arian Smit (Institute for Systems Biology)
• Nathan Springer (University of Minnesota)
• Björn Nystedt (SciLifeLab)

Organizing committee:

• Alexander Suh (Uppsala University)
• Claudia Kutter (Karolinska Institute)
• Patric Jern (Uppsala University)
• Contact us: transposonsymposium@gmail.com

Symposium schedule is online!

We are very excited about the 3^rd Uppsala Transposon Symposium – understanding population and ecological dynamics within genomes, which will take place on September 27, 2019.

Please see the final schedule here (and pdf version with map here) with a fantastic lineup of keynote talk, regular talks, and lightning talks.

Feel free to drop in for talks and discussions even if you didn’t register – but please note that coffee/tea is reserved for registered participants.

We are looking forward to meeting you next week!

Abstract submission extended

We extended the deadline to submit an abstract for a talk or lightning talk at the 3rd Uppsala Transposon Symposium. Please submit until September 03, 23:59 CET.

We encourage especially early career scientists working on topics related to transposons, viruses, or genetic conflicts to submit an abstract.

Reminder: Registration is open!

Registration is open!

The registration for the 3rd Uppsala Transposon Symposium, to be held on September 27, 2019, is open! Registration is free, includes coffee/tea during coffee breaks, a dinner/party with food/drinks at buying price, and the opportunity to present your research as a regular talk or lightning talk. Welcome!

More information about the meeting and this year’s new format is here. Please submit your abstracts until August 31.

Symposium schedule is online!

We are very excited about the 2^nd Uppsala Transposon Symposium – bridging gaps with single molecules and cells, which will take place on October 04-05, 2018.

Please see the final schedule here (and pdf version with map here) with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers, talks selected from abstracts, and posters selected from abstracts.

Feel free to drop in for talks and poster sessions even if you didn’t register – but please note that food is reserved for registered participants.

We are looking forward to meeting you next week!

Registration closes tomorrow!

We received lots of excellent abstracts and are very excited about the upcoming 2nd Uppsala Transposon Symposium. The symposium schedule will be updated soon.

Note that registration closes tomorrow!

Reminder: Registration is open!