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Cell Reports Editor Shawnna Buttery interviewed Holly Goodson, Wallace Marshall, and Thibaut Brunet at the annual ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio conference. Shawnna asked how non-traditional organisms help us better understand the fundamentals of cell biology. A transcript of the conversation appears below, and the full conversation is available with the article online.
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Biología Celular , Investigación , Evolución Biológica , Comunicación , Congresos como AsuntoRESUMEN
We can maximize the impact of scientific conferences by uploading all conference presentations, posters, and abstracts to highly trafficked public repositories for each content type. Talks can be hosted on sites like YouTube and Youku, posters can be published on Figshare, and papers and abstracts can become open access preprints.
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Congresos como Asunto , Edición , Ciencia/métodos , Medios de Comunicación SocialesRESUMEN
Academic travel has a substantial carbon footprint. The ongoing pandemic has propelled the development and adoption of technologies for online delivery of seminars and remote attendance at scientific conferences. This should not lead to the complete elimination of in-person events, but the scientific community must seize the opportunity to permanently change its modus operandi and reduce the impact of its activities on the environment.
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Viaje , COVID-19/patología , COVID-19/virología , Huella de Carbono , Congresos como Asunto , Humanos , Redes Sociales en Línea , SARS-CoV-2/aislamiento & purificaciónRESUMEN
Getting together to exchange ideas, forge collaborations, and disseminate knowledge is a long-standing tradition of scientific communities. How conferences are serving the community, what their current challenges are, and what is in store for the future of conferences are the topics covered in this Commentary.
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Congresos como Asunto , Ciencia , Movilidad Laboral , Congresos como Asunto/tendencias , Conducta Cooperativa , Ciencia/organización & administración , Ciencia/tendencias , Red Social , Recursos HumanosRESUMEN
Taking stock of global progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement requires consistently measuring aggregate national actions and pledges against modelled mitigation pathways1. However, national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs) and scientific assessments of anthropogenic emissions follow different accounting conventions for land-based carbon fluxes resulting in a large difference in the present emission estimates2,3, a gap that will evolve over time. Using state-of-the-art methodologies4 and a land carbon-cycle emulator5, we align the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-assessed mitigation pathways with the NGHGIs to make a comparison. We find that the key global mitigation benchmarks become harder to achieve when calculated using the NGHGI conventions, requiring both earlier net-zero CO2 timing and lower cumulative emissions. Furthermore, weakening natural carbon removal processes such as carbon fertilization can mask anthropogenic land-based removal efforts, with the result that land-based carbon fluxes in NGHGIs may ultimately become sources of emissions by 2100. Our results are important for the Global Stocktake6, suggesting that nations will need to increase the collective ambition of their climate targets to remain consistent with the global temperature goals.
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Dióxido de Carbono , Congresos como Asunto , Objetivos , Gases de Efecto Invernadero , Cooperación Internacional , Temperatura , Benchmarking , Ciclo del Carbono , Dióxido de Carbono/análisis , Congresos como Asunto/legislación & jurisprudencia , Gases de Efecto Invernadero/análisis , Actividades Humanas , Cooperación Internacional/legislación & jurisprudencia , Paris , Política Ambiental/legislación & jurisprudenciaAsunto(s)
Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Disbiosis/inmunología , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/inmunología , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/inmunología , Inhibidores de la Enzima Convertidora de Angiotensina/uso terapéutico , Animales , Congresos como Asunto , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Reposicionamiento de Medicamentos , Disbiosis/microbiología , Regulación de la Expresión Génica/inmunología , Humanos , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/tratamiento farmacológico , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/genética , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/microbiología , Metformina/uso terapéutico , Ratones , RNA-Seq , Análisis de la Célula Individual , Ubiquinona/análogos & derivados , Ubiquinona/uso terapéutico , Comunicación por VideoconferenciaAsunto(s)
Angioedema/inmunología , Betacoronavirus/inmunología , Infecciones por Coronavirus/inmunología , Síndrome de Liberación de Citoquinas/inmunología , Citocinas/metabolismo , Neumonía Viral/inmunología , Angioedema/sangre , Angioedema/patología , Angioedema/virología , Enzima Convertidora de Angiotensina 2 , Antiinflamatorios/farmacología , Antiinflamatorios/uso terapéutico , Antivirales/uso terapéutico , Biomarcadores/sangre , COVID-19 , Prueba de COVID-19 , Técnicas de Laboratorio Clínico/métodos , Congresos como Asunto , Infecciones por Coronavirus/sangre , Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Infecciones por Coronavirus/tratamiento farmacológico , Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , Síndrome de Liberación de Citoquinas/sangre , Síndrome de Liberación de Citoquinas/virología , Citocinas/antagonistas & inhibidores , Citocinas/sangre , Citocinas/inmunología , Humanos , Internet , Sistema Calicreína-Quinina/efectos de los fármacos , Sistema Calicreína-Quinina/inmunología , Pandemias , Peptidil-Dipeptidasa A/metabolismo , Neumonía Viral/sangre , Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico , Neumonía Viral/epidemiología , Alveolos Pulmonares/inmunología , Alveolos Pulmonares/patología , SARS-CoV-2 , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad , Transducción de Señal/efectos de los fármacos , Transducción de Señal/inmunología , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/inmunología , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/metabolismo , Factores de Tiempo , Tiempo de Tratamiento , Tratamiento Farmacológico de COVID-19RESUMEN
Uptake of colorectal cancer screening remains suboptimal. Mailed fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) offers promise for increasing screening rates, but optimal strategies for implementation have not been well synthesized. In June 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention convened a meeting of subject matter experts and stakeholders to answer key questions regarding mailed FIT implementation in the United States. Points of agreement included: 1) primers, such as texts, telephone calls, and printed mailings before mailed FIT, appear to contribute to effectiveness; 2) invitation letters should be brief and easy to read, and the signatory should be tailored based on setting; 3) instructions for FIT completion should be simple and address challenges that may lead to failed laboratory processing, such as notation of collection date; 4) reminders delivered to initial noncompleters should be used to increase the FIT return rate; 5) data infrastructure should identify eligible patients and track each step in the outreach process, from primer delivery through abnormal FIT follow-up; 6) protocols and procedures such as navigation should be in place to promote colonoscopy after abnormal FIT; 7) a high-quality, 1-sample FIT should be used; 8) sustainability requires a program champion and organizational support for the work, including sufficient funding and external policies (such as quality reporting requirements) to drive commitment to program investment; and 9) the cost effectiveness of mailed FIT has been established. Participants concluded that mailed FIT is an effective and efficient strategy with great potential for increasing colorectal cancer screening in diverse health care settings if more widely implemented.
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Neoplasias Colorrectales/diagnóstico , Detección Precoz del Cáncer/métodos , Tamizaje Masivo/organización & administración , Sangre Oculta , Servicios Postales , Causas de Muerte , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. , Neoplasias Colorrectales/mortalidad , Congresos como Asunto , Detección Precoz del Cáncer/estadística & datos numéricos , Implementación de Plan de Salud/organización & administración , Humanos , Tamizaje Masivo/métodos , Tamizaje Masivo/estadística & datos numéricos , Aceptación de la Atención de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Educación del Paciente como Asunto , Sistemas Recordatorios , Estados Unidos/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
Although encouraging progress to address issues of accessibility at scientific conferences has been made in recent years, further efforts are required to enact the comprehensive solutions necessary to accommodate the diverse needs of disabled scientists. This Opinion provides an easy-to-follow guide to ensuring that scientific conferences are accessible to disabled scientists and is aimed at conference organizers and funders in the field of cell biology. In this piece, I, a person who identifies as a disabled scientist, advocate for collective action within the cell biology community to promote the routine inclusion of accessibility officers on conference organizing panels and the use of accessibility checklists as part of applications for conference funding in order to build inclusive practices into conference planning and organization. I propose a move away from requiring personal disclosures of disability needs on a person-to-person basis towards community-agreed guidelines that ensure accessibility for scientists with a wide variety of needs. To that end, I detail a list of practical, cost-effective adjustments to standard conference activities that can enhance accessibility. Moreover, I suggest several long-term, high-impact changes - including guaranteeing the availability of wheelchair-accessible facilities and making hybrid meeting formats standard - aimed at enabling conference participation for all scientists.
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Congresos como Asunto , Humanos , Personas con DiscapacidadRESUMEN
The Company of Biologists' 2022 workshop on 'Cell State Transitions: Approaches, Experimental Systems and Models' brought together an international and interdisciplinary team of investigators spanning the fields of cell and developmental biology, stem cell biology, physics, mathematics and engineering to tackle the question of how cells precisely navigate between distinct identities and do so in a dynamic manner. This second edition of the workshop was organized after a successful virtual workshop on the same topic that took place in 2021.
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Células Madre , Congresos como Asunto , Biología Celular , Biología EvolutivaRESUMEN
This article reflects on sustainability in the context of scientific conferences with emphasis on environmental, diversity, inclusivity, and intellectual aspects. We argue that it is imperative to embrace sustainability as a broad concept during conference organization. In-person conferences have an obvious environmental impact but mitigating strategies can be implemented, such as incentivizing low-emission travel, offering fellowships to support sustainable traveling, and promoting use of public transport or car-pooling. Utilizing eco-conscious venues, catering, and accommodations, along with minimizing resource wastage, further reduces environmental impact. Additional considerations include facilitating hybrid format conferences that allow both in-person and online attendance. Hybrid conferences enhance global participation whilst reducing resource consumption and environmental impact. Often-overlooked benefits can arise from the simple recording of talks to enable asynchronous viewing for people unable to attend in person, in addition to providing a legacy of knowledge that, for example, could support the training of early career researchers (ECRs) or newcomers in the field. The longevity of a research field, intellectual sustainability, requires an inclusive conference atmosphere, offering optimal opportunities for ECRs, minority groups, and researchers from emerging countries. Diversity and inclusivity not only enrich conference experiences but also enhances creativity and innovation.
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Congresos como Asunto , Humanos , InvestigadoresRESUMEN
In 1983, a bulky and profusely illustrated textbook on molecular and cell biology began to inhabit the shelves of university libraries worldwide. The effect of capturing the eyes and souls of biologists was immediate as the book provided them with a new and invigorating outlook on what cells are and what they do.
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Biología Celular/educación , Biología Molecular/educación , Publicaciones/estadística & datos numéricos , Enseñanza/tendencias , Animales , Biología Celular/organización & administración , Biología Celular/tendencias , Congresos como Asunto , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Humanos , Modelos Biológicos , Biología Molecular/organización & administración , Biología Molecular/tendencias , Guías de Práctica Clínica como Asunto , Práctica Profesional/normas , Práctica Profesional/tendencias , Publicaciones/historia , Publicaciones/tendencias , Edición/organización & administración , Sociedades Científicas , Enseñanza/métodos , Materiales de Enseñanza/provisión & distribuciónRESUMEN
The French Society for Cell Biology (SBCF) is actively involved in communicating the latest advances and organizing scientific events, as well as supporting young researchers, in this field. The SBCF also supports and organizes outreaching activities designed to raise public awareness of science in general and cell biology in particular. The Society, in its present form, was founded in 1984. To mark this milestone, we are organizing a memorable symposium hosted by the Académie des Sciences (https://sbcf.fr/en/event/symposium-des-40-ans-de-la-sbcf/) on September 10, 2024.