title: Meeting report for mobile DNA 2010.
abstract: An international conference on mobile DNA was held 24-28 April 2010 in Montreal, Canada. Sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology, the conference's goal was to bring together researchers from around the world who study transposition in diverse organisms using multiple experimental approaches. The meeting drew over 190 attendees and most contributed through poster presentations, invited talks and short talks selected from poster abstracts. The talks were organized into eight scientific sessions, which ranged in topic from the evolutionary dynamics of mobile genetic elements to transposition reaction mechanisms. Here we present highlights from the platform sessions with a focus on talks presented by the invited speakers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. voytas@umn.edu.
authors.forename: George
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authors.lastname: Chaconas
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: M Joan
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Curcio
authors.forename: Prescott
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authors.lastname: Deininger
authors.forename: Cedric
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authors.lastname: Feschotte
authors.forename: Henry
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authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: Phoebe A
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authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Daniel F
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authors.lastname: Voytas