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Tag - conferences
Erin Zimmerman
Symposium looks at new frontiers in collecting & collections
Collections may be poised for a “renaissance of biodiversity specimen collecting.”
What is the best conference or workshop you ever attended? Are there any upcoming conferences or workshops that you are looking forward to?
We asked the members of the in silico Plants editorial board about which conferences they had found useful, or were looking forward to. This is what they said: Further ahead I’m looking forward to the second...
Rachel Shekar
Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I also saw a passive-aggressive complaint about people...
Alun Salt
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
What are the ethics of live-streaming at conferences?
If you've only recently come to terms with people tweeting at conferences, there's another shock coming soon.
Overcome your fear of presenting papers with virtual nerves
if you're looking for an excuse to buy Google Cardboard, a new app for practicing public speaking might be what you're looking for. But is it actually much help?
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
Italian Genetics Societies in Assisi: staple foods and orphan crops via epigenomics and systems biology
The three Genetics Societies in Italy – AGI, SIBV and SIGA – held a strong joint conference in Assisi in September. With 500 people and 300 posters, the major sessions were on topical issues such as epigenetics and...
