Special Diets
Those who have special dietary needs (e.g., vegetarian) should please note this on their registration forms. All efforts will be made to accommodate all requests.
The Fashion Shopping Mall, located behind the hotel has improved substantially over the past two years and has a wide variety of shopping and stores. There are also a number of restaurants located in this mall, particularly in the upstairs (upper level) Food Court, most of which are inexpensive.
The new trolley line connecting the Fashion Valley Mall and downtown San Diego is now operation. The trolley makes it easy for conference attendees to go to downtown San Diego, as well as to other locations on the San Diego trolley system (such as south to the Mexican border). Trolley Transit passes cost $5.00 per day and are available at the trolley stations.
United Airlines
is the official airline of the Agricultural Microbes Genome conference. United Airlines is offering a 10% discount off the unrestricted mid-week coach fare when purchased 7 days in advance. United Airlines is also offering a 5% discount off the lowest applicable discount fare. United Airlines is now offering additional 5% discount to Agricultural Microbes Genome 2 meeting attendees if you book and ticket at least 60 days prior to the meeting. This increases the regular 5% discount on the low applicable fare to 10% (plus another 5% off the price of a full fare unrestricted coach fare). For further details on conference airfare discounts in the USA, please call your local travel agent or the United Airlines Meeting Desk (in the USA) at the toll-free number: 1-800-521-4041. The United Airlines Meeting Desk is open 7 days a week from 7:00 am to midnight EST. Outside the USA please call your local United Airlines office. The Ag Microbial Genome 2 conference code is: 550WH.
For Agricultural Microbes Genome 2 the organizing committee has found a tour company, Enjoy California Tours which will offer tours of San Diego and the surrounding area. Please contact the company directly if you want to take a tour.
While there is usually not a problem for international participants to obtain a visa to attend the Agricultural Microbes Genome meeting, the Organizing Committee is aware of a few problems in the past and is very concerned that scientists do not have any difficulty in getting a visa to attend this and all future Ag Microbial Genome meetings you desire to participate in. Thus the conference oganizing committee is offering assistance should any potential problem arise. Each US Embassy (consular/visa section) in the country in which the person wishing to come to the Agricultural Microbes Genome meeting is currently working in is the place the decision is made. E.g., if someone who is a citizen of Freedonia working in a lab in the United Kingdom that person needs to go to the US Embassy in London. If you are initially rejected, request a written reason for the rejection and obtain the name and title of the person who is in charge of the visa process at that embassy. Then send this information with a request for assistance to the Agricultural Microbes Genome 2 conference. The contact point for assistance with visas is Steve Heller,(srheller@nist.gov).
For Agricultural Microbes Genome 2, two message boards will be set aside in the foyer area. These message boards will be for posting of job openings and for those looking for positions in the agricultural microbes genome field.
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