XXI International Congress of Genetics in Singapore
The International Genetics Federation (IGF) announces XXI International Congress of Genetics, to be held in Singapore, April 13-19, 2013. The Congress, entitled 'Genetics and Genomics of Human Health and Global Sustainability' is held jointly under the auspices of the International Genetics Federation and the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO). The Congress President is Professor Edison Liu, Genome Institute Singapore.
IGF Officers and Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of six members including the President, the Secretary-General, the Past-Secretary ex officio, and three Members at Large. The Executive Board is supported by an Executive Administrator. The 2008-2013 composition of the board is:
President: Prof. Alfred Nordheim, Universität Tübingen. Germany (alfred.nordheim@uni-tuebingen.de)
Secretary-General: Prof. Charles H. Langley, University of California, Davis (chlangley@ucdavis.edu)
Past-Secretary: Prof. Philip Batterham, University of Melbourne, Australia (p.batterham@unimelb.edu.au)
Members at Large:
Prof. Takashi Gojobori, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (tgojobor@genes.nig.ac.jp)
Prof.Sergey Inge-Vechtomov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (inge@mail333.com)
Prof. Linda Partridge, University College London
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