We are pleased to announce a Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Avian Model Systems which will begin on Wednesday evening, March 5 and end at noon on Saturday, March 8, 2014. The meeting will be preceeded by a 2-day Avian Genomics workshop run in collaboration with EMBL-EBI and WTSI, which will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday March 4 and end before dinner on Wednesday March 5, just prior to the start of the main meeting.