DRAFT PROGRAM

of Tuesday, 03-Jan-2006 21:27:21 EST

Plant and Animal Genome XIV Program

January 14 - 18, 2006

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

Details of the last meeting, PAG-XIII, can be found on the PAG-XIII Home Page.
The abstracts from all the previous thirteen 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-XIV meeting will be available one month prior to the start of the PAG-XIV meeting. The abstracts will be released on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 and can be found by clicking here.

Based on ongoing and very helpful feedback from participants, the organization and structure of the PAG-XIV 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-XIII meeting who took the time to fill out the conference evaluation form. PAG-XIV 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-XIII there were over 2000 attendees (excluding over 200 exhibitors) and PAG-XIV is expected to have an attendance again of over 2000, assuming the visa problems for overseas attendees from certain countries will not be the problem they were in the past three years.

As with teh PAG meeting last year that are there are NO LATE EVENING WORKSHOPS! The last workshop will end by 8:00 pm during the week and by 6:20 pm on the weekend. This has been accomplished by reducing the length of a workshop to two hours and ten minutes. The organizing committee is also adding specific times to each presentation so attendees can go from one workshop to another and know exactly what talk is being presented at a specific time.

We are continuing to start the meeting on Saturday and the banquet will continue to be held on Wednesday evening. The odd numbered poster session will be held in conjunction with the Sunday night receptions. The even numebred poster session will be held on Monday afternoon. Posters will be put up starting on Saturday morning, giving attendees ample time to view the posters. Each poster session will be 90 minutes (1 1/2 hours) long. Again there will be just nine (9) plenary lectures - three (3) main plenary lectures each morning.

The current schedule for PAG-XIV is that there will be over 80 workshop and industry workshops and computer program demonstration sessions. New workshops for PAG-XIV include Cucurbit, Brachypodium distachyon Genomics, Plant Development and Signal Networks, Sorghum and Millets, Genomics-Assisted Breeding, and Weedy and Invasive Plant Genomics.

We have a travel agent, Rinis Travel, to help attendees with their travel.

We have added an Exibitor Search Engine to the PAG web site. You can search for information and products by keyword. Click here to access this search facility.

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 13, 2006:

Saturday - January 14, 2006:

Workshops -
All Day Workshops: 8:00 am -6:20 pm