I am at the Society for the Study of Reproduction meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada right now. The offical meeting starts at 1 today, so I have been bumming around Vancouver for the past day or so. We are staying in the Gage Towers on the campus of the University of British Columbia. They are definately not the Hilton that we stayed in last year. The emphasis of this meeting is on sex determination this years. Not my favorite subject, but there are a few lectures on fetal programming and on ovarian, testicular, and breast cancers which should be interesting. I am also looking forward to some of the posters from gropus doing similar research to mine. I don't present until Wednesday, which is sort of nice in one regard, but also sucks because that is the last day and my flight leaves three hours after presentations end (and customs take at least two hours....)
Last night we headed to to Chinatown. Tonight I don't know what we are going to do. The weather is nice here. The ocean views are beautiful. I can definately see why everyone sights Vancouver as one of their favorite cities.