Exploring multi-hub conferences: interview with Sally Lowell
@Co_Biologists Sustainable Conferencing and Communications Officer Teodora spoke with Sally @CellySally to find out how the #EDBC2023 multi-hub conferencing format turned out:
https://thenode.biologists.com/multi-hub-conference/interview/?t=202403080904/
Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing – new name, same support. Read how our funding supported innovative sustainable thinking at #EDBC2023, hosting the meeting across three different locations in Europe: https://www.biologists.com/stories/fund-for-innovations-in-sustainable-conferencing/
7 March 2024 We are delighted to see that the biology community has been showing their natural creativity by experimenting with different conference models (Lowell et al. 2022) and we have been very pleased to support some of these experiments with funding through our Sustainable Conferencing Grants. To signal our enthusiasm for supporting innovation[...] Read More
Bringing you not 1️⃣, but 2️⃣meeting reports!
#EDBC2023 experimented with a new conference format, with the main meeting in Oxford and two hubs in Paris and Barcelona.
1️⃣Nawseen Tarannum attended the conference from Keble College, Oxford:
https://thenode.biologists.com/2nd-european-developmental-biology-congress-edbc-2023-the-oxford-panorama/meeting-reports/
2️⃣Paris edition, written by Tanya Foley, who was part of the #EDBC2023 Paris hub organizing team:
https://thenode.biologists.com/2023-european-developmental-biology-congress-paris-mini-hub-meeting-report/?t=20240109/
TIL that mice can fully regenerate a broken tooth within a few days 😮
Great talk by Jan Krivanek from Masaryk University in Brno, during our session on Regeneration Disease & Ageing
Fabulous talk from @antoinezalc on the fascinating and mysterious reawakening of plasticity during the emergence of cranial neural crest cells.
He also tells us that last night he fulfilled his lifelong ambition to dance underneath a dinosaur, thanks to our conference party in the Oxford University Museum
We are also very happy with the decision to invite speakers who were almost all within relatively few years of starting their labs
The quality of the science at this meeting so far has been outstanding
The #EDBC2023 multi-hub experiment is going so well
Yesterday we were switching smoothly between Oxford and Barcelona for a series of outstanding talks
There were lively Q&As with live questions beamed from all 3 hubs & from watch parties
150 people in Oxford, approx 65 in each of Paris and Barcelona, and many more at watch parties
Remote delegates tell us they are enjoying being able to watch alongside their colleagues, their kids, and their cats!
Looking forward to the final morning
The Node
@Co_Biologists
Sally Lowell
