This is the last week of registration for the 8th Annual Arthropod
Genomics Symposium! Register by Friday to ensure your spot.
The schedule of speakers for AGS 2014 is available on the website (link
below.)
Important Dates:
Friday May 30, 2014: Deadline for Symposium registration
Tuesday, June 10, 2014: Deadline to reserve official conference lodging
The 8th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium will be held Thursday, June
12 -- Saturday, June 14, 2014, hosted by the Institute for Genomic
Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The link for
conference registration and abstract submission is below. Two speakers
for each session of the symposium will be selected from among the
submitted abstracts.
The symposium will feature sessions on the i5k consortium, vector
biology, social insects, microbiomes, and population and comparative
genomics. Patricia Wittkopp (University of Michigan) will give the
keynote lecture on the evolution of promoters and gene regulation in
/Drosophila/ on Thursday evening. Judy Willis (University of Georgia)
will give a retrospective lecture on 50 years in insect genomics on
Friday evening.
All are also invited to register for a pre-symposium Epigenomics
Workshop to be held on-site on June 12.
To register for the Arthropod Genomics Symposium or view more
information visit: _http://conferences.igb.illinois.edu/arthropod/_
