Meetings

The Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing (EHA) www.eha-heales.org is an international event that provides a unique opportunity for researchers, government officials, biotech executives, entrepreneurs, and non-governmental institutions from around the world to meet, network, and forge new scientific collaborations.

Range of climate, soil forming factors and geologic history created arid southwest.

Computers are important tools in everyday life, whether as PC or smartphone. In the future, they will increasingly be incorporated in everyday objects and support users wearing the smart watches, display goggles, sensor clothing, among other things. This trend of digitization will be discussed by scientists, product vendors, fashion designers, and users at the ISWC/UBICOMP conference that will be co-organized by KIT from September 12 to 16, 2016, in Heidelberg. Representatives of the media are cordially invited.

Queen's University Belfast is proud to be hosting the joint INBIONET/Infect-ERA Conference over Sept. 14-15, 2016.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced today the press program for its 58th Annual Meeting, which includes multiple reports from phase III clinical trials, researchers from leading institutions in the US and abroad, and examinations of a range of cancer types and patient populations.

Good soil, water and environmental factors cannot overcome poor seed quality.

This conference aims to examine emerging technologies that could address global grand challenges, review their disruptive characteristics, identify potential sources of social concern, and outline business models and public policies on how to address those concerns. The conference builds on the findings of the newly published book, Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Agronomists, and crop and soil scientists to meet in Phoenix this November

At the 2016 International Congress of Entomology, which will be held Sept. 25-30 in Orlando, entomophagy -- the eating of insects -- will be discussed during three different symposia.

The Anthropocene Working Group is about to present its preliminary findings and recommendations at the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, at the same time indicating the range of voting opinion within the group on the major questions surrounding the Anthropocene. It will also map out a route towards a formal proposal on formalization, and indicate work that still needs be done to effect this.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will hold its annual meeting April 22 - 26 in Chicago. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference, at which five other sponsoring societies and multiple guest societies also will hold their annual meetings. This is a list of the ASBMB's annual award lecturers.

Discover the latest Earth and space science news at the 49th annual AGU Fall Meeting this December, when about 24,000 attendees from around the globe are expected to assemble for the largest worldwide conference in the Earth and space sciences. This year, the meeting runs from Monday through Friday, Dec. 12 - 16, at the Moscone Center, 747 Howard St., San Francisco, California.

School teachers from Florida and other states are invited to attend a workshop on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 during the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando.

News reporters are invited to attend a symposium on the Zika virus, which will take place on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Orlando, Fla., during the 2016 International Congress of Entomology.

Halting deforestation and forest degradation, promoting sustainable forest management and agroforestry are key to achieving the SDGs in Africa. The sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) will convene a special event on Aug. 25-26, 2016, at the World Agroforestry Centre headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss these issues.

Media are invited to learn more about the latest research on lemurs and their conservation at a two-day symposium at Duke University in Durham, NC. The symposium will bring together 25 scholars from more than a dozen institutions around the world to discuss topics ranging from primate behavior and genomics to brain sciences and paleontology. Find out what lemurs can teach us about how we age, sleep, think and even do math: Sept. 22-23; http://lemur.duke.edu/50/

At its 26th public meeting on Aug. 31, 2016, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will continue the discussion that began at its 25th meeting, reflecting on the past, present, and future impact of national bioethics advisory bodies. Speakers will discuss former US national bioethics advisory bodies and their contributions to health policy, and share perspectives about a similar body abroad, in the UK, and an international bioethics body formed by the United Nations.

Chemical & Engineering News magazine is blowing the cover of 12 'secret agents' working to save us from the world's most intractable science problems. At an event today at the 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society and in its feature issue, C&EN will reveal the identifies of 'The Talented 12,' a group of young, rising stars in chemistry.

This Critical Issues Forum is a 1-½ day meeting that will cover multiple aspects of groundwater depletion in the High Plains and will include abundant time for participant discussion.

The European Society of Cardiology is proud to announce that His Holiness Pope Francis will visit ESC Congress 2016, the largest scientific summit on cardiovascular medicine.

Geoscientists from around the globe will be presenting more than 4,700 papers at the Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, Colorado, 25-28 Sept. 2016. The scientific program schedule is online now at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/start.html.

Sunposium™ 2017, MPFI's biennial neural circuits conference, will be held February 13-14, 2017 at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach Florida. A total of seven Nobel laureates have been featured speakers at MPFI's past two Sunposium™ events (2012 and 2015), with an additional two laureates in the 2017 program. The 2017 plenary speakers include Thomas Südhof, Susumu Tonegawa, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and recipient of the 2016 Peter Gruss Young Investigator Award (announced October 2016).

Get ready for the most highly anticipated cardiovascular science of the year in the ESC Congress 2016 hot lines. The primary results of 30 novel clinical trials will be presented, with findings revealed in advance to the media in six dedicated press conferences.

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2016 Annual Meeting, the premier scientific meeting in the world on bone, mineral and musculoskeletal science, will be held in Atlanta, Georgia USA, Sept. 16-19, 2016, and bring together more than 3,500 researchers and clinicians from nearly 70 countries.