At last year's meeting in St. Louis, we asked you what you wanted from an AAIC meeting. The results showed that you liked meetings with other groups, in October or November, at a location with reasonable airline rates and good connections and with interesting things to do in the city, three or four days in length, with field trips if possible, and the opportunity to present your work. In designing this meeting we listened to what you told us, and tried to act accordingly. We believe we have put together a program that shows the diversity of new crops and new uses research, with a combination of invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. These are in addition to our ususal division sessions.
Successful meetings are a product of participation.
The greater the number of participants with diverse backgrounds and interests, the more interesting the talks and posters, as well as the discussions in the hallways and over coffee and dinner. There are invited talks in essentially all areas, but if you would like to give a contributed talk in a session, we encourage you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. Poster presentations are also an excellent opportunity for students to present their work, and again this year we will be giving cash prizes for the best posters in different categories. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 13, 2001. Manuscripts of all poster and oral presentations may be submitted for publication in the book that is being generated from this meeting, Trends in New Crops and New Uses .