The 30th annual meeting on The Biology of Genomes will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 and run through lunch on Saturday, May 13.

The 2017 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics and complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems. Both technologies and applications will be emphasized. In addition there will be a special session on the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genome research.