Summer Conferences

I am going to two conferences this summer the first is Arthropod Genomics and the second is Evolution. I will be presenting some of my initial findings concerning karyotype evolution in Coleoptera at the Evolution conference. At this first one (arthropod genomics) I am just going to be a spectator. That is actually ok with me since I have never been to one of these before it will give me a chance to see how things work before I have to actually present something later this month at Evolution.

I think that Arthropod Genomics will be pretty cool. We are going to have two days of just Tribolium talk (it’s the model organism in our lab) and then the rest of the time will be broader with people studying everything you can imagine. It will also be nice to meet more people and be able to start connecting faces to all the names that I read in papers. I hope to make posts most days giving a recap of the most interesting research that I hear about. I'm off to Kansas City.