This year, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) received a record-breaking number of registrants to the conference. Despite low attendance at other scientific meetings, according to GSA Meetings Manager, Suzy Brown, this year’s conference had the ‘‘largest number of registrants than any other previous years.’’ There were 170 talks, more than 850 posters and 13 workshops; so there was a range of information that people could pick according to their interests.