DRAFT PROGRAM

Plant and Animal Genome XIX Program

January 15 - 19, 2011

DNA Helices derived from original artwork by Life Technologies - formerly Biosystems

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

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

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

Abstracts for the PAG-XIX meeting will be available one month prior to the start of the PAG-XIX meeting. The abstracts will be released on Wednesday day, 15 December 2010 and can be found by clicking here.

Based on ongoing and very helpful feedback from participants, the organization and structure of the PAG-XIX has again been slightly changed and improved. At the request of organizers, workshop schedules have been changed to reduce conflicts and increase attendance in these sessions. Please check the schedule to see if your workshop day/time has 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-XVIII meeting who took the time to fill out the conference evaluation form. PAG-XIX will again have the main lecture room that easily seats well over 2500 people and we will have even larger rooms for all workshop leaders that request the additional space. At PAG-XVIII there were over 2200 attendees (excluding over 200 exhibitors) and PAG-XIX is expected to have an attendance again of well over 2200, assuming the visa problems for overseas attendees from certain countries will not be the problem they were in the past few years, and the world economy does not again sink further into a black hole.

In 2011 the combined total cost of the Town & Country hotel room plus Internet access will be less than it was in 2010.

As with the PAG meetings in the past few years there are NO LATE EVENING WORKSHOPS! The last workshop will end by 8:20 pm during the week and by 6:00 pm on the weekend. No more 10:30 pm workshops! 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, and working hard with workshop organizers to assure these times are kept, 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 necessary steps to be sure the program times are properly adhered to by all.

To be more specific, we have informed the workshop organizers that the workshop schedule will be posted on the door(s)) of each workshop room, with a note to report any deviations to the organizing committee &/or Scherago International. Deviants will be handled in the appropriate manner.

We have also asked that workshop speakers should be spoken to and encouraged well in advance of the PAG meeting to allow their presentations to be placed on the PAG web site after the meeting. Workshop organizers have been asked to include this request in their invitations and ask in advance if a proposed speaker will or will not allow their presentation to be put on the PAGweb site.

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 was initiated and will be held just prior to the Sunday night reception. There will no longer be a poster session held in conjunction with the Sunday night reception. The odd & even numbered poster sessions will be held on Monday morning and afternoon. Posters will be put up starting on Saturday morning, giving attendees ample time to view the posters. Each poster session will be 105 minutes = 1 3/4 hours long. There are seven (7) plenary lectures - one Sunday (1) before the reception, and two (2) main plenary lectures on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings. The time slots after the morning lectures are now being used for additional workshops and to rearrange the schedule to reduce similar type workshop content overlap.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT POSTERS ---
As attendees has noticed and complained about for a number of years, many, many people do not show up with their posters. About 20% of the poster boards have been empty in the past years. This year will will limit the number of posters boards to 775. Also, to have a poster submitted you must register and pay for registration fee prior to submitting a poster!!!

The current schedule for PAG-XIX has well over 100 workshop and industry vendor presentations and computer program demonstration sessions. New workshops for PAG-XIX include Ecological Genomics, Bioenergy, and Phytomedomics and Nutriomics workshops

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 participants to fill out. This year the form is again on the web so you may send in your comments and evaluations after you get home. The form is available by clicking here.

Friday - January 14, 2011:

Speaker Ready room is open 12:00 Noon - 8:00 pm

Saturday - January 15, 2011:

Workshops -
All Day Workshops:

8:00 am - 6:00 pm