DRAFT PROGRAM

of Wednesday, 03-Jan-2007 20:39:53 EST

Plant and Animal Genome XV Program

January 13 - 17, 2007

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

Details of the last meeting, PAG-XIV, can be found on the PAG-XIV 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-XV meeting will be available one month prior to the start of the PAG-XV meeting. The abstracts will be released on Wednesday, 13 December 2006 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-XIV meeting who took the time to fill out the conference evaluation form. PAG-XV 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-XIV there were over 2000 attendees (excluding over 200 exhibitors) and PAG-XV 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 few years.

As with the PAG meeting last year that are there are NO LATE EVENING WORKSHOPS! The last workshop will end by 8:20 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. Please let the organizing committee know of any workshop leaders who do not keep to the printed schedule so the organizing committee can take the neccessary steps to be sure the program times are properly adhered to by all.

We are continuing to start the meeting on Saturday and the banquet will continue to be held on Wednesday evening. Starting with PAG XV a plenary lecture will be held just prior to the Sunday night reception. 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. Starting with PAG-XV there will be just eight (8) plenary lectures - one Sunday before the reception, three (3) main plenary lectures on Monday morning, and two (2) each on Tuesday and Wednesday. The time slots after the Tuesday and Wednesday lectures will now be used for additional workshops and to rearrange the schedule to reduce similar type workshop content overlap.

The current schedule for PAG-XV is that there will be about 90 workshop and industry vendor presentations and computer program demonstration sessions. New workshops for PAG-XV include Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy, Population and Conservation Genomics, Euphorbiaceae, Samll RNA, and the Ornamentals workshop will again be held at PAG-XV.

PAG has appointed 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 12, 2007:

Saturday - January 13, 2007:

Workshops -
All Day Workshops: 8:00 am - 3:25 pm