Arthropod Genomics Symposium 2020

13th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium: July 21-23 2020

Location: 100% virtual - join from wherever you are!

 
Key Dates and Deadlines
Overview
Registration
Schedule
Workshops
Technical
V-Posters
Mailing list
Organising Committee
General Data Protection Regulation

Key Dates and Deadlines

Friday, July 17 - Registration Deadline for AGS and Workshops separately
Monday, July 20 - Technical tests for speakers
Tuesday, July 21 - Arthropod Genomics and Chromosome Genomics Sessions
Wednesday, July 22 - China Genomics Session and Eco-Evo Genomics I & II Sessions
Thursday, July 23 - Vector Genomics and Agricultural Genomics Sessions
Friday, July 24 - VectorBase Workshop
Monday, July 27 - Gene manual annotation with Apollo Workshop

Overview

The symposium focuses on new insights gleaned from analysing arthropod genomes and is designed for scientists interested in genomic studies of arthropods, including model organisms, those of importance to agriculture or health, and those of ecological or evolutionary interest. The programme will include presentations from speakers covering several major themes with opportunities for online discussions and interactions amongst all participants. AGS has a history of welcoming postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students, who are again particularly encouraged to join.

Registration

To attend the 2020 Arthropod Genomics Symposium, registration is required (free). Please use this form to register for the meeting. Registrants will be sent an invitation to join the AGS Slack Workspace approximately two weeks before the meeting starts. The AGS Slack Workspace is restricted to registered participants and all organisational communications including Zoom Webinar invitations will be sent through the Workspace channels . For more information on how to participate, please read this guide.

DRAFT Schedule

For this year's Arthropod Genomics Symposium, speakers were selected from an open list of community suggestions. Webinars will span a 3-hour period split into two speaker sessions each day (08-11 PDT [US West Coast] ~ 11-14 EDT [US East Coast] ~ 17-20 CET [Europe]). The China session will precede the webinars on Wednesday (08-10 EDT [US East Coast] ~ 14-16 CET [Europe] ~ 20-22 CST [Beijing]). At the end of each day we plan to hold informal discussions on Slack. We hope that speakers and attendees will join to continue and extend topic discussions in these interactive forums.

Zoom Webinar invitations will be posted on Slack 7-10 minutes prior to the start of each session.

July 21

July 22

July 23

Workshops

Please use this form for information on and registration for the workshops. Workshops require a separate registration from the AGS symposium registration (the question regarding workshops in the AGS registration was simply included to gauge interest). Workshop registration deadline is Friday, July 17. Please only apply if you plan to attend the workshop(s) in full. The workshop(s) are free. However, to make the most out of them we will have limited seats in order to ensure participants can easily interact with the instructors while solving the exercises.

Technical

A virtual meeting requires a few changes to normal conference organisation: participation will be managed through the AGS Slack Workspace and webinars will be broadcast on Zoom. User Guides describing different aspects of how the meeting will be run will be provided to all registered participants once they have joined the AGS Slack Workspace. Until then, simply make sure your Slack and Zoom installations are up-to-date, or sign up for and install them (see Slack and Zoom websites for details).

V-Posters

The online format of this meeting means that all participants may present a 'V-Poster' describing their research project(s). There will be no formal selection process for V-Posters, and due to participants joining from different time zones there will be no dedicated V-Poster sessions. V-Posters act as a graphical advertisement for your project to encourage other attendees to meet with you (online) and discuss further.

Mailing list

To keep up to date with news about this conferece, the i5k webinar series and other i5k activities, please subscribe to the Arthropod News mailing list. Email frequency is typically very low.

Organising Committee

This virtual version of the Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium was brought together through the work of the Organising Committee. If you have any questions about the symposium, please use this form to contact the committee members.

• Joshua Benoit
• Susan Brown
• Anna Childers
• Fei Li
• Mary Ann McDowell
• Kristen Panfilio
• Michael Pfrender
• Surya Saha
• Robert Waterhouse

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

During registration we will collect some personal data including your name, your email, where you work (affiliation), what you work on, and your work role. The Organising Committee and meeting administration will use the information provided to approve your registration and the email provided to contact you once approved.