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Meeting Report

Meeting Report

Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.

German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Development Session

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. This time I had to decide between two parallel sessions for the first time at this meeting. Plant genetics or Development? Coming from plant molecular genetics myself, there perhaps was a ready-made decision, but I

German Genetics Conference 2009: Session II

Another guest post from Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference in Cologne. Dusko Ehrlich fom Jouy en Josas in France started off the second session of the meeting. He is working with the MetaHIT project, which tries to do a metagenomic analysis of the human intestinal tract. This

German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session I

The second guest post from fellow science blogger Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference currently held in Cologne. The first session was all over the place in terms of topics. Starting off the meeting, Linda Partridge from the Institute of Healthy Ageing in London and the Max Planck

German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Introduction

This is the first of several posts by guest science blogger Alexander Knoll, who will report from the Annual Meeting of the German Genetics Society. I will be back from my summer vacation on Sunday. Away from my usually blogging grounds at Alles was lebt at the German Scienceblogs, I

Thoughts on the Science Online London Conference

Thoughts on the Science Online London Conference

We did it. Yesterday was Science Online London, a conference about the online communication of science that took place at the Royal Institution. I hope that everybody that attended had a great time. You can see a lot of conference coverage on Twitter (hashtag #solo09) and in the FriendFeed Science

Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0

Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0

Regular readers of this blog know that I often talk about bibliographic management tools (most recently here and here), and it was probably for this reason that I was invited to an interesting full-day workshop last week at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library in London: Bibliographic Management meets Web

Using Google Wave for a week – it’s still great!

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. When Wave was first announced May 28 at the Google I/O conference, many people immediately saw its potential as a great collaboration tool for scientists: * Ricardo Vidal: Using Google Wave to surf the streams * Me: Google