The Genetics Society of America is having their first meeting focusing on model organisms: Genetic Analysis: Model Organisms to Human Biology, January 5-7, 2006. The Abstract deadline is November 14. Additional information and registration is available at www.gsa-modelorganisms.org.

Instead of multiple regional meetings in North America, two topics meetings will be held at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison in 2006. If this format works well four topics meeting will be held in 2008. The 2007
International Meeting will be held at UCLA.
June 22rd-25th, 2006
Meeting 1: Early Embryo, Polarity & Cell Fate, Post Embryonic Development, Cell Biology & Cell Cycle, and
Germline/Evolution/Sex Determination (Organizers: Ahna Skop, Jeff Hardin and others).
July 9-July 12th
Meeting 2: Behavior and Sensory Transduction, Neuronal Development, and Synaptic Function (Organizers: Maureen
Barr, Ahna Skop and others).
Meeting 3 (Genomics, RNAi, & Gene Expression) and Meeting 4 (Aging and Stress, Dauer and Developmental Timing,
Cell Death & Neurodegeneration, and Pathogenesis) will be added in 2008.
If anyone is interested in helping Ahna Skop organize one of the 2006 meetings please contact her at: skop@wisc.edu.