DRAFT PROGRAM

of Tuesday, 07-Jan-2003 18:36:32 EST

Plant and Animal Genome XI Program

January 11 - 15, 2003

Welcome to the draft program for the Plant & Animal Genome XI conference.

Details of the last meeting, PAG-X, can be found on the PAG-X Home Page.
The abstracts from all the previous ten meetings are available via the Internet on this computer system: [http://www.intl-pag.org/]

The abstracts from these past meetings appear on the menu and have been indexed for convenient searching.

Abstracts for the PAG-XI meeting will be available one month prior to the start of the PAG-XI meeting. The abstracts will be released on 11 December 2002 and can be found by clicking here.

Based on feedback from participants the organization and structure of the PAG-XI has again been slightly changed and improved. This home page for the meeting is an overview of the main parts of the meeting. The PAG Table of Contents now links to the information about the meeting and its various parts (e.g, workshops, sessions, travel grants, and so on). This page will only contain an overview of the meeting.

The Organizing Committee would like to thank all those participants of the PAG-X meeting who took the time to fill out the conference evaluation form. The one comment that was, again, most often mentioned was the overlap of many of the workshops. The Organizing Committee believes we have been able to resolve this problem to a great extent by adding workshops on Saturday and making some minor adjustments in the dates and times of other workshops. PAG-XI will again have the main lecture room that easily seats well over 2000 people and we will have even larger rooms for all workshop leaders that request the additional space. At PAG-X there were over 1800 attendees (excluding exhibitors) and PAG-XI is expected to have an attendance of over 2000.

In response to the many constructive suggestions from PAG-X participants, the meeting organization has been modified in a number of places. The main changes from last year that is being continued is that the meeting will start on Saturday, the banquet will continue to be held on Wednesday evening, and the poster sessions will be held in conjunction with the receptions. Posters will be put up starting on Saturday morning, giving attendees ample time to view the posters. Again there will be just a few (nine) plenary lectures, with a change that there will not be separate, parallel plant and animal sessions. There will be three (3) main plenary lectures each morning.

A few new workshops have been added including Root Genomics, Rice Blast, Maize Expression Profiling, Domestic Animal Genome Sequencing, Citrus, and Allele Mining. Also some workshops have been dropped and/or postponed until 2004.

The curent schedule for PAG-XI is that there will be some 65 workshop and vendor presentations as well as the usual computer program demonstrations.

Again the organizers will pass out evaluation forms towards the end of the meeting for particpants to fill out. This year the form is again on the web so you may send in your comments and evaluation after you get home. The form is available by clicking here.

Friday - January 10, 2003:

Saturday - January 11, 2003:

Workshops -
All Day Workshops: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm