Meetings

Francis Collins and Harold Varmus will discuss the importance of international open science in a joint keynote address at the 5GA4GH 5th Plenary Meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA on Oct. 17, 2017. The event is an official ASHG ancillary meeting and will afford attendees the opportunity to learn more about important changes to GA4GH that aim to enable responsible, real-world genomic data sharing by 2022.

Top experts in infection prevention and healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) are meeting in Dallas next week at the Healthcare Surfaces Summit 2017 to identify ways to reduce the rising menace from surface-spread healthcare-acquired superbug infections. Interdisciplinary teams representing multiple areas of expertise will collaborate to formulate integrated, actionable solutions from a holistic perspective. An HAI survivor and activist will keynote, illustrating the human and social costs of these devastating, but preventable diseases.

The Cancer Research Institute, the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy, the European Academy of Tumor Immunology, and the American Association for Cancer Research will sponsor the third International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference at the Rheingoldhalle Congress Center in Mainz/Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 6-9, 2017.

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) will host its first OpenCon event on Sunday, October 1 at the Gaylord National Conference Center in National Harbor, Md., bringing together some of the top advocates in open access and open science to explore new avenues in the dissemination of next generation research.

Ben Feringa, Bob Grubbs, William E. Moerner, Jack Szostak -- these Nobel Laureates are heading the list of speakers at the Angewandte Festsymposium. In addition, further internationally recognized scientists from America, Asia, and Europe will talk about their research. This event will take place on Sept. 11, 2017, in Berlin as part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary the German Chemical Society (GDCh), and be broadcast on the internet. Media representatives are welcome.

A broad array of system administrators, developers, researchers and students who share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library for high performance computing will gather at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) Aug. 14-16 for the fifth meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group (MUG).

Public/Private Partnerships for Translational Research is the topic for the 2017 Southern Translational Education and Research Conference set for Sept. 21-22 at the Augusta Marriott Hotel downtown.

ESMO 2017 is once again the place to be for breaking news on cancer research. ESMO 2017, the annual oncology congress organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in partnership with the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) will take place in Madrid, Spain, from Sept. 8-12 at IFEMA, Feria de Madrid.

Thousands of ear, nose, and throat physicians and head and neck surgeons will gather to share the latest research and clinical advances from across all areas of the specialty at the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) 2017 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience, Sept. 10-13, in Chicago, Ill.

Microbes inhabit just about every part of the human body outnumbering human cells by ten to one. The ten-year National Institutes of Health Common Fund Human Microbiome Project was established to understand how microbial communities impact human health. On Aug. 16-18, 2017, NIH will host a workshop, 'The Human Microbiome: Emerging Themes at the Horizon of the 21st Century,' to share the latest research on the human microbiome.

Thousands of bone scientists will come together for the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2017 Annual Meeting, the premier scientific meeting in the world on bone, mineral and musculoskeletal science, to present their latest research and collaborate on new opportunities to increase the testing, diagnosis and treatment options. Special Session: Reducing the Treatment Gap on Osteoporosis

The ASHG 2017 Presidential Symposium will feature speakers Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Francis Collins, Director of the NIH. This 90-minute symposium will address global health and genomics in an informal, conversational format.

National experts in mathematics, law, politics, and voting rights are gathering at Tufts University this week to discuss nonpartisan solutions to gerrymandering and promote fair electoral districting practices across the country. The conference is the inaugural workshop of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG), a nonpartisan organization of Boston-based researchers led by Moon Duchin, a mathematician and Tisch Senior Fellow at Tufts University.

The 8th Annual Wyss International Symposium will focus on innovations in Therapeutic Organ Engineering, with the goal of sharing recent advances in 3D Organ Engineering, Materials Fabrication, and Vascular Integration that are leading to new approaches for therapeutic organ replacement and regenerative medicine. Join us to meet and learn from leading researchers who will share promising new directions and practical insights that are synergistically moving the field forward.

More than 500 technology leaders from 39 countries, including experts on cyber and hardware security, will descend on the Tufts University Medford/Somerville campus for the 2017 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

The conference will feature approximately 600 sessions and more than 3,000 studies covering such subjects as immigration, gender, culture, education, politics, sex, health, children, religion, same-sex marriage, bullying, work, race, relationships, family, criminal justice, consumerism, food, technology, disability, development, substance abuse, environment, and an abundance of others.

The Goldschmidt conference -- the world's major geochemistry conference -- takes place in Paris from August 13-18, 2017.

The world's leading scientists in the field of space weather are gathering this week at Boston College for a global forum to a develop an international policy to address space weather. The forum, titled 'The United Nations/United States of America Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative,' is organized by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, NASA, and Boston College's Institute for Scientific Research. It brings together more than 150 scientists and policymakers representing 50 countries and international organizations.

The food and biotechnological sectors and the scientific and medical communities will share their knowledge in the third edition of 'Growing Young.'

80 experts in research and health care in the field of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions will meet in Lisbon at the Global Summit Alzheimer's Research & Care Lisbon 2017, which will be held at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. The meeting will be presided by Her Majesty the Queen Sofia of Spain and by Leonor Beleza, president of the Champalimaud Foundation and former Minister of Health of Portugal.

The American Society of Human Genetics 2017 Annual Meeting will take place Oct. 17-21, 2017, in Orlando, Fla.

The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced highlights of KDD 2017, the group's flagship annual conference. KDD 2017 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Aug. 13-17, 2017. Recognized as the longest-running and largest conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the fields of data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.

Experts from around the world are coming to metro Detroit to collaborate and discuss their advances and challenges in the global pursuit of artificial vision.

At MIPT, the DeepHack.Turing sci-hack summer school has begun. This event is part of the effort to automate the Turing test, a classic way of telling if a machine can think. The participants will spend a week designing competing models that analyze text to differentiate between human and machine input in a dialogue. For those wishing to join in the fun: Anyone can help the researchers create better artificial intelligence by talking to chatbots.