{"id":2963,"date":"2014-09-11T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2014-09-11T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:10:26","slug":"genomics-the-power-the-promise-early-bird-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genomics-the-power-the-promise-early-bird-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Genomics: the power &#038; the promise &#8211; Early bird registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powerandpromise.cvent.com\/events\/power-and-promise-2014\/event-summary-f9d77d6b7afa4d2880b03293b339fe2c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2964\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"590\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unnamed.png 590w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unnamed-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genome Canada and The Canada Gairdner International Awards\u00a0are hosting a conference and gala dinner event exploring the theme &#8220;<em><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/powerandpromise.cvent.com\/events\/power-and-promise-2014\/event-summary-f9d77d6b7afa4d2880b03293b339fe2c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Genomics: the Power &amp; the<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/em><b><a href=\"http:\/\/powerandpromise.cvent.com\/events\/power-and-promise-2014\/event-summary-f9d77d6b7afa4d2880b03293b339fe2c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> Promise<\/a><\/b>&#8220;. The conference will explore how genomics has affected our daily lives, as well as the impacts of\u00a0environmental factors on\u00a0human health.<\/p>\n<p>Held at the\u00a0Ottawa Convention Centre\u00a0between November 24 &#8211; 26, 2014, the conference features the following four sessions;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>&#8220;Genomic Medicine: an update on the human genome project and what it means for personalized medicine and health care systems<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Environmental impacts on human health (including the roles of the epigenome and microbiome)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How the natural resource and agriculture sectors can adapt to environmental factors<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Challenges of Canada\u2019s non-renewable natural resource sectors and opportunities for genomics to contribute to their profitability and sustainability&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The conference also features a Gala dinner on Nov. 25, with high-profile researchers and members of Canada&#8217;s federal government expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early bird registration for the conference is now open, <a href=\"http:\/\/powerandpromise.cvent.com\/events\/power-and-promise-2014\/custom-18-f9d77d6b7afa4d2880b03293b339fe2c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here to register<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genome Canada and The Canada Gairdner International Awards\u00a0are hosting a conference and gala dinner event exploring the theme &#8220;Genomics: the Power &amp; the Promise&#8220;. The conference will explore how genomics has affected our daily lives, as well as the impacts of\u00a0environmental factors on\u00a0human health. Held at the\u00a0Ottawa Convention Centre\u00a0between November 24 &#8211; 26, 2014, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2160],"tags":[215,909,51,476],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-announcement","tag-environment","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unnamed.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-LN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}