PROGRAM

of Friday, 23-Apr-1999 14:07:41 EDT

Plant & Animal Genome VII Program

January 17 - 21, 1999

Welcome to the draft program for the Plant & Animal Genome VII conference. We have moved all materials for the plant and animal genome meetings from the USDA, National Agriculture Library (NAL) plant genome web site to this new web site, which is on a computer system exclusively dedicated to the conference.

Details of the last meeting, PAG-VI, can be found on the PAG-VI Home Page.
The abstracts from all the previous six 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-VII meeting can be found by clicking here.

Based on feedback from participants the organization and structure of the draft program has been changed. 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-VI meeting who took the time to fill out the conference evaluation form. The one comment that was, again, most often mentioned was the lack of space/seats at many of the workshops. Every year the Organizing Committee plans for a bigger meeting and obtains larger rooms/more seats for most workshops, based on the requests from each Worskhop leader. Every year it seems our optimistic projections are exceeded. We are working to resolve the problem and will have larger rooms for all workshop leaders that request the additional space. As of January 11, 1999 over 1075 have registered for the meeting (there were 1040 in total at PAG-VI), so there may still some space problems in some workshop sessions.

In response to the many constructive suggestions from PAG-VI participants, the meeting organization has been modified in a number of places. The main changes are that the meeting will end at lunchtime on Thursday, authors will only be required to be at their posters one day (either Monday or Tuesday), there will be fewer main lectures, and the workshops will be spread out to minimize potential and real conflicts for those wanting to attend workshops in related areas. This year the Banquet will be held Wednesday evening, and the lunches on Monday and Tuesday will be included in the registration fee.

As of December 22, 1998 PAG-VII will have 537 poster talks and 35 workshops and vendor presentations, a considerable increase in both areas over what there was last year. Including the poster session, worskhops, computer session, and invited talks, there are over 700 abstracts which are online now and which will be published in the meeting program guide. The abstracts for the PAG-VII meeting can be found by clicking here.

The winners of the ISPMB student travel award grants and the Jorgensen student travel award grants have been announced. Click here for the list of the awardees.

As usual there we will pass out evaluation forms towards the end of the meeting for particpants to fill out. This year we have also put the form on the web so you may send in your comments and evaulation after you get home. The form is available by clicking here.

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