Tag Archives: PAG

San Diego Is Calling: Are You Ready for PAG?

It’s the start of a bright, shiny new year. If you’ve been in the genomics field long enough, you know that can mean only one thing: we’re getting ready for PAG! Officially the Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference, this … more »

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RAD-seq, High-Pass Sizing in Sunny San Diego

We are shaking off this northeast winter and heading out to San Diego for the 25th annual International Plant and Animal Genome meeting! This event is always a great way to kick off the year, surrounded by cutting-edge science and … more »

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This PAG Was One for the Birds (and Other Organisms, Too)

The 24th annual PAG meeting ended earlier this week, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves — as did just about every other attendee we encountered. The avian genomics community one-upped everyone else by going on bird-watching excursions and tweeting photos of … more »

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On Our Way to the 24th Annual PAG Conference

We’re heading to San Diego this weekend, braving historic rain and mudslides for our favorite agbio conference: the International Plant & Animal Genome meeting, held January 9-13. Each year, thousands of scientists descend on the Town and Country hotel to … more »

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Still Buzzing about the Coffee Talk at PAG

One of our favorite sessions at last week’s PAG meeting focused on a major sequencing effort to understand the coffee genome. The presentation, from scientists at Cenicafé (Colombia’s National Coffee Research Center) highlighted a new project designed to characterize elements … more »

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Large DNA in the Spotlight at PAG 2015

This year’s PAG meeting featured the usual treats of interesting organisms being sequenced (koala!), reports from great plant and animal projects, and cool new technology approaches. While we found all of it fascinating, the theme of the meeting for us … more »

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Gearing Up for PAG 2015

San Diego, here we come! We’re getting ready for the annual International Plant and Animal Genome conference, a stellar event that highlights some of the latest and greatest work happening in the agbio realm. PAG is the one conference we … more »

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