Meetings

Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year. The meeting will be held March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia.

Moffitt Cancer Center, a leader in the clinical care and research of blood malignancies, will present its top clinical research at the 61st American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, Dec. 7-10 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

Selected talks and posters from Sandia National Laboratories researchers to be presented at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019.

More than a third part of marine mammal species are threatened in the ocean ecosystems. If conservation measures do not improve, some populations could reach a point of no return. The World Marine Mammal Conference (WMMC 2019) will take place from December 9 to 12 in Barcelona under the organization of the University of Barcelona and SUBMON Association with the main goal of promoting strategic lines on research, management and conservation of marine mammals worldwide.

National Institute on Aging (NIA) experts will be available to share some key latest accomplishments and advancements at the 12th Annual International Conference on Clinical Trials for Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD). Organized and planned by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) clinical researchers, this year's meeting will include a keynote presentation by the NIA Division of Neuroscience Director Dr. Eliezer Masliah on the state of AD/ADRD clinical trials and drug target discoveries.

Registration is now open for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) 2020 Scientific Sessions. The three-day conference will take place May 13-16, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.

The ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress 2019, the platform in Europe devoted entirely to the development and use of the immunotherapies against cancer, will take place from Dec. 11-14 in Geneva, Switzerland, and will attract around one thousand participants from all over the world.

Therapy used against grade four glioblastoma multiforme combines a photoactive molecule and a chemotherapeutic agent -- both encapsulated in protein-lipid nanoparticles; work was presented by Antônio Claudio Tedesco during FAPESP Week France.

Intestinal microbiota of mosquito that transmits dengue and of bugs resistant to insecticides is the focus of studies developed at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon1 and presented at FAPESP Week France.

Besides the soil microbiota, two other initiatives that look at the challenges of climate change related to geological sediments and emissions resulting from sugarcane production were presented at FAPESP Week France.

Collaborative platform forms part of a research project being carried out in São Paulo since 2012 that monitors and analyzes removals in the city with the aim of creating solutions for housing and urban development issues.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers will present more than 40 research studies at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting on December 7-10 in Orlando, Fla.

Interdrought 2020 will take place from March 9 to 13, 2020, in Mexico City. Registration and abstract submissions are now open at www.interdrought2020.com. The congress aims to facilitate the development of concepts, methods and technologies associated with plant production in water-limited environments.

A study developed in Brazil and presented during FAPESP Week France aims at elucidating the behavior of the so-called aerosols, which have an important influence over climate, agriculture, and human health.

Research internationalization strategies was the topic of a roundtable at FAPESP Week France, in Lyon; representatives from USP, UNESP, UNICAMP, and French universities took part in the debate.

Including experts from various areas in machine learning projects is essential for increasing the precision of results, highlighted Alexandre Falcão, of UNICAMP, in a lecture given at FAPESP Week France; the researcher has created a tool capable of automating parasite detection in stool analyses.

Including experts from various areas in machine learning projects is essential for increasing the precision of results, highlighted Alexandre Falcão, of UNICAMP, in a lecture given at FAPESP Week France; the researcher has created a tool capable of automating parasite detection in stool analyses.

AI Week, Tel Aviv University's first international weeklong conference on the fast-growing technological discipline of artificial intelligence, opened on November 17, 2019 to industry experts, academics, business executives and government officials from Israel and abroad.

Scientists from France and São Paulo State will attend a symposium to be held on Nov. 21-27 in Lyon and Paris to discuss topics at the knowledge frontier.

'A Picture of Health' is a pop-up exhibition and culmination of a collaborative art-science project between the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) and UAL: Central Saint Martins. The artwork created by 5 artist-scientist groups reflects current research topics that are vital to human health; past, present and future, such as antimicrobial resistance and infection, artificial intelligence and data science, environment, mental health: dementia, schizophrenia and trauma, and sleep.

Today, thanks to modern resuscitation science, death can no longer be considered an absolute moment but rather a process that can be reversed even many hours after it has taken place. Clinicians and researchers around the globe are engaged in transformative research to improve resuscitation techniques and increase high-quality survivorship. Their findings have upended conventional notions about the nature of brain injury and death itself.

Young researchers in computer science and mathematics from all over the world can apply for one of the 200 coveted spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual networking event. The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to personally interact with the laureates of the most prestigious prizes in the fields of mathematics and computer science.

A trio of world-renowned researchers will be the plenary speakers for the 2020 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world's largest conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals, held 8 - 12 March 2020 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

On November 18, at 6:30 pm, acclaimed jazz musician Helen Sung will perform a new musical compilation inspired by the past year she has spent working with brain scientists as the inaugural Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.