Cold Spring Harbor Asia ConferencesPosted by Eva Amsen on May 5th, 2010
0Earlier this year, Cold Spring Harbor Asia opened a new conference centre
in Suzhou, China. Located near Shanghai, the conference centre gives the
research community in Asia an international conference centre close to home.
The Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference centre lobby reflects Chinese design.
(Image used with permission)
After the opening ceremony on April 6, the new conference centre was host to
two back-to-back meetings: the “James Watson Symposium on Cancer” and the
‘Francis Crick Symposium on Neuroscience”.
The September schedule looks especially appealing for developmental
biologists, with “Human Genetics and Genomics” from September 6 to 10, and
“Molecular Switches and Genome Function in Stem Cells & Development” from
September 21 to 25.
I’m curious to see how the presence of the conference centre will affect
research in Asia in the long term. If you’re attending one of the
conferences at the new location, why not drop by the Node to tell us what
you think!
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