American Cytogenetics Conference Meetings

 

 

1st Meeting

            Gatlinburg Meeting on Mammalian Chromosomes and Somatic Cell Genetics

            Mountain View Hotel

            Gatlinburg, Tennessee

            November 15 - 17, 1962

            Organizer(s):  M. A. Bender, Ernest H. Y. Chu, P. Carolyn Gooch

            Abstracts:  MCN*, no. 9, January 1963, pp. 38-75, and ACC website

            *Mammalian Chromosomes Newsletter

 

 

2nd Meeting

            Second Mammalian Chromosome Conference

            Basin Harbor Club

            Vergennes, Vermont

            September 26 - 28, 1963

            Organizer(s):  Margery Shaw (chair), Wayne Borges, David Carr, Neil MacIntyre

            Report:  M. A. Bender, Highlights of the Second Mammalian Chromosome Conference,

            MCN, no. 12, December 1963, pp. 174-177

            Abstracts:  ACC website

 

3rd Meeting

            Third Mammalian Cytology and Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Condado Beach Hotel

            San Juan, Puerto Rico

            November 12 - 14, 1964

Organizer(s):  Kurt Benirschke, Kurt Hirschhorn, P. Carolyn Gooch, Carlos Garcia-Benites

            Abstracts:  MCN, no. 14, October 1964, pp. 63-93, and ACC website

 

 

4th Meeting

            Fourth Conference on Mammalian Cytology and Somatic Cell Genetics

            Williamsburg Inn

            Williamsburg, Virginia

            November 2 - 4, 1965

            Organizer(s):  Maimon Cohen, Herbert Cooper, Carl Jones, and Jack Miller

            Abstracts:  MCN, no. 19, January 1966, pp. 15-38

 

 

5th Meeting

            Fifth Conference on Mammalian Cytology and Somatic Cell Genetics

            The King and Prince Hotel

            St. Simon Island, Georgia

            November 8 - 10, 1966                                                                                                                 

            Organizer(s):  Laird Jackson, Herb Lubs, Hope Punnett, Warren Nichols

            Report: Laird G. Jackson, MCN, vol. 8, no. 2, April 1967, p. 98

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 8, no. 1, January 1967, pp. 23-50

 

 

6th Meeting

            Sixth Conference on Mammalian Cytology and Somatic Cell Genetics

            Asilomar Conference Center

            Pacific Grove (Monterey), California

            November 5 - 9, 1967

            Organizer(s):  Walter A. Nelson-Rees, Relda Cailleau

            Report:  Laird G. Jackson, MCN, vol. 9, no. 1, January 1968, pp. 22-23

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 9, no. 1, January 1968, pp. 24-52 

                                                              

 

 

7th Meeting

            Seventh Conference on Mammalian Cytology and Somatic Cell Genetics

            Circle K Motel

            Gatlinburg, Tennessee

            October 24 - 26, 1968

            Organizer(s):  Ernest H. Y. Chu

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 10, no. 1, January 1969, pp. 26-58

 

 

8th Meeting

            Eighth Somatic Cell Genetics Conference (Name change = redefined scope of meeting)

            Chatham Bars Inn

            Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

            October 7 - 10, 1969                                                                                                                             

            Organizer(s):  Doris Wurster

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 11, no. 2, April 1970, pp. 56-82

 

 

9th Meeting

            Ninth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference                                                                            

            Flagship Hotel

            Galveston, Texas

            October 28 - 30, 1970

            Organizer(s):  Frances E. Arrighi (chair), Lillian Lockhart, Nat Keiffer (T. C. Hsu

            unofficial member of committee)

            Report:  Financial Report, MCN, vol. 12, no. 2, April 1971, p. 72

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 12, no. 1, January 1971, pp. 3-34

 

            No meeting was held in 1971 due to the Fourth International Human Genetics

            Congress in Paris. This was the meeting where chromosome banding nomenclature

            was established.  Instead, the 10th meeting was held early in 1972. 

 

 

10th Meeting

            Tenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Stonebridge Inn

            Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado

            January 18 - 20, 1972   (Abstracts cited January 28-30, 1972)

Organizer(s):  Herbert A. Lubs, William F. Brandom, Jean H. Priest,

Arthur Robinson

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 13, no. 2, April 1972, pp. 57-98

 

 

11th Meeting

            Eleventh Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Colony Beach and Tennis Club

            Sarasota, Florida

            January 8 - 10, 1973

            Organizers:  Arthur Falek, Jean Priest, Richard Warren, Daniel Bath

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 14, April 1973, pp. 34-86

 

 

12th Meeting

            Twelfth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            C’est Bon Hotel

            Park City, Utah

            January 6 - 8, 1974tth

            Organizers:  Frank J. O’Neill

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 15, no. 2, April 1974, pp. 59-87

 

 

 

13th Meeting

            Thirteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Frenchman’s Reef Hotel

            St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

            Date:  December 12 – 15, 1974   

            Organizer(s):  Akira Morishima

Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 16, no. 2, April 1975, pp. 60-106

 

 

14th Meeting

            Fourteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Shamrock Hilton Hotel

            Houston, Texas

            October 29 – November 1, 1975

            Organizer(s):  Francis E. Arrighi (chair), Louis B. Altenburg, Sen Pathak;

            Catherine Palmer, Lillian Lockhart, Arthur Falek, A. Morishima. 

            Report:  Francis Arrighi, MCN, vol. 17, no. 1 & 2, April 1976, pp. 80-83

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 17, no. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1976, pp. 8-72

 

           

15th Meeting

            Fifteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Omni International Hotel

            Norfolk, Virginia

            November 10 - 12, 1976

            Organizer(s):  Donald Merchant (chair), Donald Taylor, Mark Rowe, Paul

            Homsher, William Young

            Reports:  MCN, vol. 18, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1977, pp. 64-67

            (appendix referred to in report was not included in publication)

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 18, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1977, pp. 4-63

 

 

16th Meeting

            Sixteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

            Los Alamos, New Mexico

            October 3 - 5, 1977

            Organizer(s): Larry Deaven

            Report:  MCN, vol. 19, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1978, pp. 6-8

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 19, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1978, pp. 9-60

 

17th Meeting

            Seventeenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Callaway Gardens

            Pine Mountain, Georgia

            November 28 - December 1, 1978

            Organizer(s):  Arthur Falek (chair)

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 20, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1979, pp. 2-45

 

            No meeting was held in 1979. Instead, the 18th meeting was held early in 1980. 

 

 

18th Meeting

            Eighteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Tucson Marriott Hotel

            Tucson, Arizona

            January 27 – 30, 1980

            Organizer(s):  Oscar G. Ward, Jeff M. Trent, Darrel S. English, Albert Leibovitz,

            Eleanor Shisslak

            Report:  MCN, vol. 21, nos. 1 & 2, April 1980, pp. 3-4

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 21, nos. 1 & 2, April 1980, pp. 3-79

 

 

19th Meeting

            Nineteenth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Olde Colony Motor Lodge

            Alexandria, Virginia

            January 25-28, 1981

            Organizer(s):  Elizabeth M. Earley (chair), Stanton F. Hoegerman, Dale Wierenga,

Anne Hamburger, Maria Lugo, Lee Ann Hicks, Louise Hendon, Suzanne Amsbaugh,

            Renee Thornton

            Report:  MCN, vol. 22, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1981, p. 4

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 22, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1981, pp. 5-39

 

           

20th Meeting

            Twentieth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference                                                                      

            Hyatt Hotel

            Lake Tahoe, Nevada

            January 10 – 13, 1982

            Organizer(s):  Baldev K. Vig, Michael Figueroa, Lawrence Schneider, Ayesha Gill, Laura McCollum, Debbie Figueroa

.

            Report:  B. K. Vig, MCN, vol. 23, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1982,

            p. 4-6.  Special report by T. C. Hsu in Letters to the Editor, pp. 55-56 of this issue.

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 23, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1982, pp. 6-54

 

 

21st Meeting

            Twenty-First Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Yahara Center

            Madison, Wisconsin

            October 3 – 6, 1982

            Organizer(s):  Lorraine Meisner, Stanley L. Inhorn

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 24, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), April 1983, pp. 140-168

 

No meeting was held in 1983.  Instead, the 21st meeting was held late in

1982 and immediately followed the 33rd annual meeting of the American

Society of Human Genetics.

 

 

22nd Meeting

            Twenty-Second Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Holiday Inn

            Lake Placid, New York

            January 15 – 18, 1984

            Organizer(s): Doris Wurster-Hill, Akira Morishima, and Sandra R. Wolman  

            Report:  See Foreword, MCN, vol. 25, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), p. 1

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 25, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), March 1984, pp. 2-36

 

 

23rd Meeting

            Twenty-Third Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Hyatt Islandia Hotel

            San Diego, California

            January 20 – 23, 1985

            Organizer(s):  James T. Mascarello

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 26, nos. 1 & 2 (double issue), June 1985, pp. 5-47  

 

 

 

24th Meeting

            Twenty-Fourth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Marriott Casa Marina

            Key West, Florida

            January 12 – 15, 1986

            Organizer(s):  Jack Rary

            Abstracts:  MCN, vol. 27, nos. 1-4, December 1986, pp. 3-113

            This was the final Issue of MCN.

 

 

             

25th Meeting

            Twenty-Fifth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            La Fonda Hotel

            Santa Fe, New Mexico

            January 11 – 14, 1987

            Organizer(s):  Kathy Richkind

            Abstracts:  ACC website

 

 

 

26th Meeting

            Twenty-Sixth Annual Somatic Cell Genetics Conference

            Traverse Resort Village

            Traverse City, Michigan

            January 17 – 20, 1988

            Organizer(s):  Mike Tyrkus

            Abstracts:  ACC website

 

 

 

Name changed to American Cytogenetics Conference

 

 

 

27th Meeting

            27th Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            The Houstonian

            Houston, Texas

            March 8 – 11, 1989

            Organizer(s):  David H. Ledbetter

            Abstracts:  ACC website

 

 

 

28th Meeting

            28th Annual American Cytogenetics Conference                                                                             

            Cross Keys Inn

            Baltimore, Maryland

            March 14 – 17, 1990

            Organizer(s):  Stuart Schwartz, Maimon Cohen

            Abstracts:  ACC website

 

 

 

29th Meeting

            29th Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Granlibakken Conference Center

            Tahoe City, California

            February 20 – 24, 1991

            Organizer(s):  LaDonna Immken

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 56:217-230, 1991

 

 

 

30th Meeting

            Thirtieth Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Virginia Beach Resort Hotel

            Virginia Beach, Virginia

            March 15 – 18, 1992

            Organizer(s):  Art Brothman, Peter Jacky

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 60:257-269, 1992

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31st Meeting

            31st Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Port Ludlow Resort and Conference Center

            Port Ludlow, Washington

            March 28 – 31, 1993

            Organizer(s): Peter Jacky, Wendy Golden

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 63:247-258, 1993

 

 

 

32nd Meeting

            32nd Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Wintergreen Resort

            Wintergreen, Virginia

            April 23 – 26, 1994

            Organizer(s):  Wendy Golden, James Mascarello

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 69:110-126, 1995

 

 

           

33rd Meeting

            33rd Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn

            San Diego, California

            April 1 – 4, 1995

            Organizer(s):  James Mascarello, Urvashi Surti, Susanne Gollin

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 71:389-400, 1995

 

 

 

34th Meeting

            34th Annual American Cytogenetics Conference

            Seven Springs Mountain Resort

            Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

            May 4 – 7, 1996

            Organizer(s):  Urvashi Surti, Susanne Gollin

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 74:300-312. 1996

 

 

Move to Biennial Meetings

 

 

 

35th Meeting

            35th American Cytogenetic Conference

            Litchfield Beach and Golf Resort

            Litchfield, South Carolina

            April 25 – 27, 1998

            Organizer(s):  Robert Best, Frank Grass

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 82:131-144, 1998

 

 

 

36th Meeting

            36th American Cytogenetic Conference

            Moody Gardens

            Galveston, Texas

            May 6 – 9, 2000

            Organizer(s):  Lisa Shaffer, Sue Ann Berend

            First American Cytogenetics Conference Distinguished Cytogeneticist Award

            Presented to T.C. Hsu

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Cell Genet 90:154-168, 2000

 

 

 

37th Meeting

            37th American Cytogenetics Conference

            La Fonda Hotel

            Santa Fe, New Mexico

            April 25 – 28, 2002

            Organizer(s):  Laurel Estabrooks, Sue Ann Berend, Kathleen Rao

            2002 American Cytogenetics Conference Distinguished Cytogeneticist Award

            Presented to Catherine Palmer

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Genome Res 97:261-275, 2002

 

 

 

38th Meeting

            38th American Cytogenetics Conference

            Skamania Lodge

            Stevenson, Washington

            April 22 – 25, 2004

            Organizer(s):  Peter Jacky, Debra Saxe

            2004 American Cytogenetics Conference Distinguished Cytogeneticist Award

            Presented to Ellen Magenis

            Abstracts:  Cytogenet Genome Res 106:120-141, 2004

 

 

Incorporation of ACC – July 2005

 

 

39th Meeting

            39th American Cytogenetics Conference

            Emerald Pointe Resort

            Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia

            April 27 – 30, 2006

            Organizer(s):  Debra Saxe, Daynna Wolff

            2006 American Cytogenetics Conference Distinguished Cytogeneticist Award

            Presented to Jean Priest

            Abstracts: Cytogenet Genome Res 116:324-324, 2007