Meetings

Is it possible to create a truly bushfire-resistant house? What's the best way to donate to bushfires? How can you tell fact from fake news in this era of Twitter bots? How can we improve communication to save lives and property? These and more questions will be on the table at an important forum at QUT this Friday addressing Australia's catastrophic fire season. Register now to live-stream and pose questions.

Over 100 scientists, doctors, along with representatives from industry, charities and Government agencies to meet in Liverpool. Focus on the importance of sustaining effective vaccinations and developing new vaccines within global health research to counter growing threat of infectious diseases. Event to support world's biggest vaccine summit in London in June.

Join us this March to hear about the most recent developments in the NCRI Living with and Beyond Cancer Research Groups projects. Sessions will address each of the workstreams, looking at recent advances in research, the use of PROMs, and areas of unmet need from the LWBC James Lind Alliance priorities. Participants will gain an understanding of the scope of LWBC research, hear of the latest advances and emerging research opportunities, and have the opportunity to share aspirations and agendas.

Leading experts from cancer centers, start-ups, technology, private equity, innovation centers, pharma and government will gather in Boston, March 29-31, 2020.

Next week, Berkeley Lab is hosting the InnovationXLab Biomanufacturing Summit: An exclusive event aimed at bridging the gap between research and commercialization and paving the way toward a stronger bioeconomy.

The 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAT*), to be held in Barcelona, Spain from January 27-30, brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. ACM FAT* will host the presentation of research work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, the social sciences and law.

Complimentary press passes and virtual newsroom access are now available for the Experimental Biology (EB) 2020 meeting, to be held April 4-7, 2020 in San Diego.

Reporters are invited to attend The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), to be held April 22-26, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland, just 30 minutes from downtown Washington DC. TAGC 2020 will feature the latest discoveries from researchers at the leading edge of what is possible in the biological and biomedical sciences.

Lancaster University is to host a conference in honour of the 70th birthday of Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle. He was awarded the Guy medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 1997 before becoming its President from 2014 until 2016. He also holds honorary positions at Columbia, Yale and Johns Hopkins and has a part-time post with Health Data Research UK as Director of their Wellcome-funded PhD Programme in Health Data Science.

The SSA Annual Meeting will take place April 27-30, 2020, in Albuquerque, N.M.

This conference provides a forum for information dissemination on lower limb clinical biomechanics and will facilitate discussion on research and case studies in this field via plenary sessions.

The latest data on the main causes of death after stroke will be presented at ESC Heart & Stroke 2020. The international conference of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Stroke is endorsed by the European Stroke Organisation (ESO).

Credentialed press representatives are invited to attend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 56th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. This is the preeminent event in cardiothoracic surgery, offering more thought-provoking lectures, late-breaking scientific research, and cutting-edge techniques and technologies than any other meeting of its kind.

This conference is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (SIAG/UQ). is being held in cooperation with the GAMM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (GAMM AG UQ) and the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Novela Neurotech, a neurotechnology company developing next-generation neural prosthesis for epilepsy treatment, will showcase its prototype system at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, January 13-16, 2020.

Press registration is now open for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, March 14-17, 2020, in Boston, Mass., at the Sheraton Boston. Get great story ideas and connect with more than 1,500 neuroscientists, presenting some of the latest research on neurotechnology, memory, language, aging, and learning.

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, will play host to the ATS 2020 International Conference, the biggest gathering of scientists and clinicians in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Join us beginning on Sunday, May 17* through Wednesday, May 20.

The growing use of artificial intelligence in society, how math can help address political gerrymandering, the ethics of human gene-editing, and the spread of infectious disease among ocean organisms will be discussed at the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, the world's largest general scientific conference.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced the External Advisory Board (EAB) of AgTech NEXTTM, a bold new food and agtech innovation summit that will be held May 4 - 6, 2020 at the Danforth Center in St. Louis, MO. Members of the AgTech NEXT EAB are known for their impact and innovation and represent the diverse perspectives within the ag innovation community.

The 12th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC12) will be taking place in Barcelona, Spain, March 18-20, 2020. Registration for media is free and is now open. The opening press conference is likely to take place at 09.00 hrs CET on Wednesday, March 18, and the Spanish-language press conference at 10.00 hrs CET, so please take this into account when planning your travel.

Insilico Medicine to present new results in generative biology AI at the 38th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Plant protection products are safe -- in principle. However, a prerequisite is that they are used properly and for their intended purpose. This means, for example, that when used in the field, protective clothing such as overalls, breathing masks and gloves must be worn if this is specified in the instructions for use.