The Agenda

GET MORE GENOMICS » If work with the Quebec Founder Population inspires you to do more genomic analyses of samples from human populations, head to Bethesda, Md., July 18 for a National Institutes of Health short course on the field. To learn more about the event, which will also be videocast, visit: http://calendar.nih.gov/app/MCalWelcome.aspx.

GET TO GERMANY » If the profile of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics inspires you to learn more about genetics research or visit Berlin, you can do both at the 20th International Congress of Genetics, held July 12-17 in Berlin. Here, you can catch lectures from close to 300 researchers on the latest in the field. For more, visit: http://www.geneticsberlin2008.com/.

GET MORE CHANNELS » If you want to hear more about calcium and cell function, attend a FASEB summer research conference July 6-11 in Snowmass Village, Colorado , where you'll see keynote speaker Anjana Rao at Harvard Medical School, mentioned in this month's hot paper. See more at http://tinyurl.com/5r9czt.

GET OUTTA MY GARDEN » Struggling with pests in your plants? You're not alone, and haven't been for centuries. To learn more about the history of how humans have dealt with insects, pick up American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, by James E. McWilliams, published this month by Columbia University Press (http://tinyurl.com/6cd2zh).