Over the 4 days of the conference there will be plenary and parallel sessions focusing on all facets of core facility operations, management and specific technologies of interest to core facility staff. Keynote talks will be given by 2001 Nobel laureate Paul Nurse and by Frances Weis-Garcia (President of ABRF). Poster sessions will be held to allow core scientists to present new developments in their technologies and a core facility marketplace area will also be available for facilities to promote their expertise and services. A Belgian beer tasting, guided boat trip through the city's canals and conference dinner in the old fish market will highlight the social program. CTLS2018@VIB aims to offer core facility staff and those interested in careers as expert scientists an opportunity to learn, network and forge alliances to strengthen core facility science throughout Europe. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biodiversity_next is a conference that brings together, for the first time at this scale, major international organisations, research scientists, and policy makers to jointly identify socio-technical bottlenecks and horizon-scan opportunities around data-intensive biodiversity and geodiversity research. biodiversity_next aims at: Promoting innovation in biodiversity & geodiversity information science and applications; Sharing and enhancing community data standards and information management practices; Improving domain reach to new audiences (incl. scientific, policy and industry); Inspiring new generations to more enthusiastically embark on data-intensive science around bio- and geo-diversity; Building community consensus on pivotal technical and sociocultural aspects of the community practices. biodiversity_next is organised as a milestone event between TDWG, GBIF, CETAF, DiSSCo and Naturalis and is replacing the annual meeting of TDWG for the year 2019 ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
