As determined by the domain names of 402 e-mail addresses that were recently revealed.
- Cornell University
- Google <– gmail.com was the second most common domain name among these e-mail addresses.
- Cold Spring Harbor
- University of Guelph
- Iowa State University
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of Florida
- UMR de Génétique Végétale du Moulon*
- (8) Purdue University*
- Syngenta
Overall a total of 134 organizations (or at least domain names) were represented in the list of e-mail addresses of attendees in my possession. If I could dig up historical data it’d be interesting to see how the rankings change over time.
Doing this sort of analysis very quickly (generating the data for this post took ~4 minutes, I timed myself) is one of the fringe benefits of learning even a little about programming.
Official 52nd Maize Meeting website.
(You see what happens when a guy has too much caffeine and then has a chunk of time too short to get any real work done?!)
*These two institutions are tied for number of attendees