This news item is about: A full house gathered for the Center for Vertebrate Genomics Symposium, co-organized this year by Dr. Praveen Sethupathy, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Dr. John Schimenti, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, at the College of Veterinary Medicine July 16 to exchange ideas and listen to a lineup of renowned experts in the field, including Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.