Meetings

Experts at the University of Birmingham's Institute for Global Innovation (IGI) are launching a new multi-disciplinary forum to help resolve critical global challenges - helping to make the world a fairer, more sustainable place.

Press registration is now open for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, March 13-16, 2021, to be held virtually. Get great story ideas and connect with neuroscientists, presenting some of the latest research on neurotechnology, memory, mental health, aging, and learning. Join us for a unique virtual conference experience!

The ISSCR's VISION2030 is bringing together biotech CEOs who have successfully transformed scientific breakthroughs into thriving businesses that are improving human health. Join us for in-depth executive interviews that explore the next decade for the field on 7-8 January 2021. The event comes at a pivotal moment in regenerative medicine and stem cell science as discovery, translation, and investment intersect.

Staffordshire University is hosting a virtual international interdisciplinary conference and festival on 24 April 2021.

The Microbial Engineering community has made extraordinary progress toward developing a number of promising vaccine candidates to provide proection against COVID-19. This January 26 webinar will focus on a variety of programs based either on microbial platforms or cell free synthesis.

Research presentations on topics as diverse as the history and development of African American Language, the linguistic nature of keysmashes, and the "myth" of Standard German dominance are among the highlights of the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), to be held virtually from January 7-10, 2021.

The ISSCR is bringing together successful biotech CEOs who have transformed scientific breakthroughs into thriving businesses that are improving human health into one program 7-8 January 2021. VISION2030 comes at a pivotal moment in regenerative medicine and stem cell science as discovery, translation, and investment intersect.

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA21) Registration is now open!

Please note the new dates for ESC Congress 2021, the world's largest gathering of cardiovascular professionals. The event will officially open on the morning of Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, and continue for four full days until the evening of Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. The Opening Press Conference will take place on Thursday, Aug. 26 (time to be determined).

The 1st International BioDesign Research Conference was held online by Stanford University, the University of Warwick, and BioDesign Research in December 2020. Approximately 7500 people from 86 countries have attended the live and satellite presentations. Sixty-four world renowned experts and scholars, including 6 Nobel Prize winners and 16 multinational academicians, were invited to present at the conference and 35 scholars shared their latest research via satellite video presentations. Meanwhile, 126 abstracts and 106 posters were also presented. 

Media are invited to register for the first virtual Crohn's & Colitis Congress, taking place Jan. 21-24, 2021, and learn about the latest trends and research in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patient care.

The American Physical Society's annual March Meeting will take place entirely online March 15-19, 2021. More than 11,000 physicists are expected to attend the largest physics meeting of the year, where they will present and discuss groundbreaking research from industry, academia, and major labs.

Each year, IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) highlights the best lung cancer research at the Presidential Symposium. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCLC was postponed and has been restructured into two separate meetings--the first portion was held in August and the second part will be held in January 2021. To learn more about the meeting, visit https://wclc2020.iaslc.org/.

The world's largest neuroscience community will virtually gather January 11-13, 2021 to share the latest developments in brain research. SfN Global Connectome: A Virtual Event, the brand-new digital gathering hosted by the Society for Neuroscience, will feature thousands of presentations on brain function, health, and disease, covering topics such as empathy, sleep, gut-brain interactions, machine learning, new tools and technology, and more.

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine to Hold 41st Annual Pregnancy Meeting Virtually, Jan. 25-30, 2021

The Physiological Society and the Intensive Care Society have come together to host an exciting three-day virtual conference this week, which will review the challenges of understanding the pathophysiological changes occurring throughout the body following COVID-19 infection.

On 12-14 January 2021, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the Chinese Laser Press will host a colloquium sponsored by their co-published journal Advanced Photonics. The six 90-minute interactive events will be moderated by the journal's associate editors and will cover new research and innovations in nanophotonics, imaging, quantum research, and metalenses. Registration for the events is free and open to the public.

A virtual special session of the annual Legionella Conference co-hosted by NSF Health Sciences and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) will focus on disease prevention from waterborne pathogens during a public health crisis. Previously set for January 2021 in Chicago, this special session of the conference has been rescheduled as an interactive virtual event due to the ongoing pandemic.

The meetings will take place December 14, 15, and 16, 20. They are free and open to the public and consist of three events: * The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Annual Meeting * The ORWH 30th Anniversary Scientific Symposium * The Specialized Centers of Research Excellence on Sex Differences (SCORE) Annual Meeting Keynote Address

Seventh edition of the FAPESP COVID-19 Research Webinars online seminar series will address the manufacturing and distribution logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine portfolio.

Several areas in which further research is needed have been identified, as well as lessons from the pandemic to improve research and cancer care. These include understanding the biological and psychological effects on cancer patients, risk factors associated with Covid-19 and cancer, the influence on health-related behaviours and the impact on cancer care pathways.

Which type of research can help us to address the challenges of an extended lifespan and demographic change? This question is the focus of the Report on Tomorrow's Science 'Ageing and the Life Course. Research for Longer Lives' by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The report provides an interdisciplinary overview of topics and funding in this field of research. We cordially invite you to the presentation of the report.

Think Brain Health - a policy, clinical and research challenge, a virtual meeting featuring expert speakers in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, addressed current and future opportunities to help everyone achieve good brain health.

The COVID-19 pandemic raises important questions about the role of life sciences in society and if the voices of scientists are now less audible or less important, is this a problem and how can this be addressed? This question will be one of many tackled by a panel, including Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Sir Paul Nurse for a live online event on Thursday 3 December from 6 to 7.30 pm