Meetings

Leading researchers will gather this week at a Case Western Reserve University-led symposium highlighting progress and opportunities in biomedical research and human-performance sciences. The event takes place this Thursday and Friday, Aug. 18-19, at the Wolstein Research Center on the Case Western Reserve campus, and features researchers and clinicians from the university, area hospital affiliates and the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton.

For the first time, BGI Genomics invited two clinical experts based in the Middle East to speak at this year’s conference: Dr. Yasser Sabr, assistant professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and Dr. Cristina Skrypnyk, assistant professor at Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain.

The XXXI General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ends today in Busan, Korea. Having been postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting took place as the first hybrid General Assembly, with around 1200 in-person participants and around 700 attending online. The conference included seven symposia, 10 multi-session Focus Meetings, as well as many more meetings of IAU Divisions, Commissions and Working Groups.

Professor Jan Frederik Stevens, president of the Cannabis 2022, Oregon State University, USA, commented: “During our first workshop dedicated to Cannabis and Cannabinoids, we will discuss the recent advances, perspectives and answer questions related to cannabis. It is very important for our scientific committee to talk about the credibility of cannabis research and their medical applications. We will highlight the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabinoids, the analysis of cannabinoids, the influence of mitochondria, the application of cannabinoids as anticancer…”.

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will host two online side events for the research cooperation between Japan and Africa during Japan-Africa Science Innovation Week (August 22-26) on the occasion of the TICAD VIII.

The 13th World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria will take place this year at the Steigenberger Hotel Am Kanzleramt, Berlin, Germany & Online from October 26th to 28th. Targeting Mitochondria 2022 will come with many hot topics related to mitochondria function and dysfunction in health & disease. All topics will be presented by selected speakers.

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) is hosting a free webinar, “Manipulating Memories to Help Treat Brain Illness” on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 2:00 pm EDT. The presenter will be Steve Ramirez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and a recipient of a 2016 Young Investigator Grant.

What motivates or drives the human eye to fixate on a target and how, then, is that visual image perceived? What is the lag time between our visual acuity and our reaction to the observation? In the burgeoning field of immersive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), connecting those dots, in real time, between eye movement, visual targets, and decision-making is the driving force behind a new computational model developed by a team of computer scientists at New York University, Princeton University, and NVIDIA.