Past Department Retreats

Department of Genome Sciences

2025
IslandWood
Keynote Speaker: Jessica Riskin, PhD

2024
IslandWood
Keynote Speaker: Lynda Stuart

2023
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Itai Yanai – “Night Science”

2022
Foege Auditorium
Keynote Speaker: Jane Hu

2021
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Beronda Montgomery

2019
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Heisman

2018
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Siddhartha Mukherjee

2017
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Bob Waterston

2016
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Leek

2015
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Pat Brown

2014
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Olivia Judson

2013
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: David Krakauer

2012
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Maynard Olson

2011
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Janet Rowley – “The Philadelphia Story”

2010
IslandWood
Keynote Speaker: Maggie Werner-Washburne

2009
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Eddy Rubin

2008
Semiahmoo Resort
Keynote Speaker: Mario Capecchi

2007
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Roy Vagelos

2006
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: William Foege

2005
Rosario Resort
Keynote Speaker: Donald Hunt

2004
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Lee Silver

2003
Sleeping Lady Resort
Keynote Speaker: Gregory Petsko

2002
Port Ludlow Resort
Keynote Speaker: Laurie Zoloth – “Difficult Freedoms: Research, Bioethcis, and Policy”

Department of Genetics

2000
Friday Harbor
Keynote Speaker: Jack Szostak – “Exploring sequence space with directed evolution”

1999
Friday Harbor
Keynote speaker: George Rathman – “Drug discovery in the 21st century”

1998
Friday Harbor
Keynote speaker: Henry Erlich – “Analysis of HLA sequence polymorphisms: Implications for disease susceptibility and evolution”

1997
Friday Harbor
Keynote speaker: Jared Diamond – “The history of everyone for the last 13,000 years”

1996
Friday Harbor
Keynote speaker: Stan Leibler – “A physicist looks at biological networks”