Francis Collins is in town

A Community Genetics Forum 2006: Finding the Genome is a 3-day conference here in the Triangle. I will try to go to the third day events on Saturday, 10am - 3pm.

It is a very medically oriented meeting, so I doubt they will mention the importance of comparative genomics in the study of evolution, but it will be fun anyway.

On the other hand, it is probably good for my emotional well-being that there is likely to be no mention of Francis' awful book...

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