Sex in Iowa, 2009

After this year's meeting was cancelled due to flooding, both the Evolution of Sex and Recombination and the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meetings will be here in Iowa City next year, May 31-June 7. John and RPM will be there; I smell scienceblogger meetup...

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Queue creationists blithering about "groups of Science Bloggers meeting up in Iowa for sex" in 3, 2, 1...