| Friday, February 29 |
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3:00 - 7:30 PM
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Registration
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Zia Concourse
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6:30 - 7:30 PM
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Refreshments
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Sunset Room
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7:30 - 8:30 PM
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Keynote Address
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Trudy F.C. Mackay,
North Carolina State University
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Michael Lynch,
Indiana University
Spontaneous Mutation, Complex Traits and Evolution
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| Saturday, March 1 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Eldorado Court
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8:00 - 11:00 AM
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The Spectrum of Genetic Variation
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Charles H. Langley,
University of California, Davis
Polymorphism and Divergence across the Drosophila melanogaster Genome
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Detlef Weigel,
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Whole-Genome Variation and its Impact on Reproductive Isolation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Eleazar Eskin,
University of Calfornia, Los Angeles
A Sequence-Based Variation Map of 8.27 million SNPs in Inbred Mouse Strains
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Peter Donnelly,
University of Oxford
Human Genetic Variation and Disease Susceptibility
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Richard M. Durbin,
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Short Talk: Whole Genome Sequence Variation in 70 Saccharomyces Strains
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Zia Concourse
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Poster Setup
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Sunset Room
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1:00 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Viewing
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Sunset Room
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Zia Concourse
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Genetic Variation and Evolution
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Adam Eyre-Walker,
University of Sussex
Inferring the Effects of Mutations from DNA Sequence Data
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Daniel L. Hartl,
Harvard University
Therapeutic Insights from Yeast: Plasticity, Pleiotropy, and Mutability in the Transcriptome
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Sarah A. Tishkoff,
University of Pennsylvania
Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation in Africa
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James P. Noonan,
Yale University School of Medicine
Short Talk: Functional Insights into the Role of Gene Regulatory Change in Human Evolution
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Eldorado Court/Sunset Room
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7:30 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Session 1
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Sunset Room
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| Sunday, March 2 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Eldorado Court
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8:00 - 11:00 AM
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The Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Ritsert C. Jansen,
University of Groningen
Statistical Challenges for Genetical Genomics
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Leonid Kruglyak,
Princeton University
Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Yeast
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Eric Schadt,
Pacific Biosciences
Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Mouse and Human Populations
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Vivian Cheung,
University of Pennsylvania
Genetics of Natural Variation in Human Gene Expression
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Jan Veldink,
University Medical Center Utrecht
Short Talk: Differential Expression of Gene Networks in Peripheral Blood of Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Patients Reveals Molecular Heterogeneity of the Disease
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Zia Concourse
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Poster Setup
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Sunset Room
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1:00 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Viewing
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Sunset Room
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1:30 - 2:30 PM
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Editor's Roundtable
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Anasazi Ballroom
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2:30 - 4:30 PM
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Workshop: Short Talks Selected from Abstracts
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Trudy F.C. Mackay,
North Carolina State University
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Michael N. Weedon,
Peninsula Medical School
Genome Wide Association Analysis Identifies 20 loci that Influence Adult Height
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Laurens Basten Snoek,
Wageningen University and Research Centre
The Genetic Architecture of Life-History Variation
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Cristen J. Willer,
University of Michigan
Genome-Wide Association Scans Identify Novel Loci That Influence Lipid Levels and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
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Michael Olivier,
Medical College of Wisconsin
Complete Dissection of a QTL Identifies Five Novel Genes Responsible for Altered Lipid Levels in the Metabolic Syndrome
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Hyun Seok Kim,
Washington University
A Systematic Screen for Genes Contributing to Quantitative Traits in Yeast using Quantitative non-Complementation
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Yi Jia,
Iowa State University
Genetic Control of the Transcription of Natural Antisense Transcripts (NATs) in Maize
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Yurii S. Aulchenko,
Erasmus MC Rotterdam
Comparison of Methods for Genome-Wide Quantitative Trait Association Analysis in Related Individuals
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Ana-Teresa Maia,
CRUK-Cambridge Research Institute
New Approach to Study Susceptibility to Breast Cancer: Allelic Variation of Gene Expression Analysis
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Zia Concourse
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits: Lessons from Model Organisms
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Trudy F.C. Mackay,
North Carolina State University
Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits in Drosophila
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Ronald W. Davis,
Stanford University
Chemical and Complex Genetics in Yeast
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Beverly Paigen,
The Jackson Laboratory
Genetic Dissection of Mouse Complex Traits
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Bart M.G. Smits,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Short Talk: Characterization of Mcs5a, a non-Coding Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Eldorado Court/Sunset Room
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7:30 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Session 2
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Sunset Room
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| Monday, March 3 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Eldorado Court
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8:00 - 11:00 AM
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Human Complex Traits: Progress and Prospects
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Anasazi Ballroom
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P. Eline Slagboom,
Leiden University Medical Centre
Genetic and Biomarker Studies for Human Longevity
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Carole Ober,
University of Chicago
Genome-Wide Association Studies in a Founder Population
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Gilles Thomas,
NCI - National Institutes of Health
Genome-Wide Association Studies in Breast and Prostate Cancer: Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS).
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Adnan Derti,
Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Assessing Excess Epistasis Among Functionally Related Human Genes
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Zia Concourse
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Zia Concourse
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5:00 - 6:40 PM
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Whole Genome Association Studies
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Anasazi Ballroom
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David R. Cox,
Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
Common Human DNA Variation and Complex Human Traits: Success Stories
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Teri Manolio,
National Institutes of Health
Collaboration and Data Sharing in the Genetic Association Information Network
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Richard Spielman,
University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Monozygotic Twins Reveal Germ-line Contribution to Allelic Expression Differences
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Minerva M. Carrasquillo,
Mayo Clinic
Short Talk: Genome-Wide Association Scan for Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD)
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6:40 - 7:15 PM
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Roundtable: Whole Genome Scans in Non-Academic Medicine
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Anasazi Ballroom
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David R. Cox,
Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
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Kári Stefánsson,
deCode Genetics
Prospects for Whole Genome Analysis for Individualized Medicine in the Real World
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7:00 PM -
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On Own for Dinner
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| Tuesday, March 4 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Eldorado Court
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8:00 - 11:00 AM
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Behavioral Genetics and Genomics
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Anasazi Ballroom
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Robert R.H. Anholt,
North Carolina State University
Genetic Architecture of Complex Behavior in Drosophila
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Emmanuel Mignot,
Stanford University
Molecular Studies in Narcolepsy and Hypersomnia
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Kári Stefánsson,
deCode Genetics
Genetic of Common Diseases
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Hans A. Hofmann,
University of Texas at Austin
Genes, Hormones and Brains: A Genomic Analysis of Social Behavior
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Susan T. Harbison,
North Carolina State University
Short Talk: Identification of Co-Regulated Genetic Networks Contributing to Naturally Occurring Genetic Variation in Drosophila Sleep
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Zia Concourse
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Zia Concourse
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Epigenetics and Genomic Rearrangement
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Anasazi Ballroom
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James R. Lupski,
Baylor College of Medicine
Genomic Rearrangements and Gene Copy Number Variation as a Cause for Complex Traits
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Andrew Chess,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Gene Regulationand Their Impact on Complex Traits
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Iuliana Ionita,
Harvard University
Short Talk: On the Analysis of Copy-Number Variations (CNVs) in Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Translation of the Family-Based Association Test (FBAT) Approach
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Dana C. Crawford,
Vanderbilt University
Short Talk: APOA1/C3/A4/A5 Gene Cluster SNPs and their Interaction with Dietary Intake are Associated with Triglyceride Levels in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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Dana Pe'er,
Columbia University
Short Talk: On the Complexity of the Growth Phenotype
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Eldorado Court/Sunset Room
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8:00 - 11:00 PM
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Entertainment
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Eldorado Court/Sunset Room
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| Wednesday, March 5 |
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Departure
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