# The Allied Genetics Conference

> **NIH NIH R13** · GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA · 2020 · $50,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract: The Allied Genetics Conference
The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), to be held in April of 2020, will bring together over
4000 investigators from around the world to share recent discoveries and technological
advances in genetics and genomics. TAGC is a combined conference of six different model
organism research communities: Drosophila, C. elegans, yeast (S. cerevisiae), Zebrafish,
Xenopus, and mammalian (mouse), along with the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative
Genetics (PEQG) community.
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has long sponsored meetings of these model organism
research communities. Those meetings contributed to bringing model organisms to the forefront
of biological research, especially in the area of genetics, and fostered the cohesiveness of each
community that helped make them so productive. But the complete genome sequences that
started appearing about 20 years ago reemphasized the fundamental unity of biology—all
organisms are built from essentially the same set of genes. The leadership of the GSA believes
these communities should be brought closer together. The sharing of information and the
collaborations that will result are sure to lead to a deeper understanding of biology.
The GSA brought these communities together in 2016 at the first TAGC. That conference was
an aggregation of 7 individual meetings (C. elegans, Ciliates, Drosophila, Mouse, PEQ, Yeast,
Zebrafish), with all attendees coming together in 3 plenary sessions featuring well-recognized
speakers. But because a majority of attendees told us more of the sessions at the next TAGC
should be organized around topics rather than organism, highlighting the unity of biology and
rules of life, rather than organized by organism, TAGC 2020 will feature an equal amount of
cross-organismal and organism-specific programming. This will bring the communities together
around biological topics while still enabling each community to exchange organism-specific
information and maintain its identity. In addition to concurrent topical (pan-organism) and
organism-specific sessions, the meeting will feature 4 plenary sessions of keynote talks, and
additional programming of interest to attendees, especially early career researchers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10055936
- **Project number:** 1R13HG011362-01
- **Recipient organization:** GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA
- **Principal Investigator:** Henry Mark Johnston
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $50,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-03-17 → 2021-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10055936

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10055936, The Allied Genetics Conference (1R13HG011362-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10055936. Licensed CC0.

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