So he and Ryan organized and hosted a meeting at the Wyss Institute in Harvard bringing together specialists on passenger pigeons, conservation ornithologists, bioethicists, and fortunately passenger pigeon DNA had already been sequenced by a molecular biologist named Beth Shapiro.
On i Ryan na Wyss Institutu u Harvardu organizirali su i održali susret stručnjaka za goluba selca,  konzervacijskih ornitologa, bioetičara. Srećom, DNK goluba selca već je sekvencionirala molekularna biologinja Beth Saphiro,