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Broadening Participation in Scientific Conferences during the Era of Social Distancing

Virtual conferences can offer significant benefits but require considerable planning and creativity to be successful. Here we describe the successes and failures of a hybrid in-person/virtual conference model. The COVID-19 epidemic presents the scientific community with an opportunity to pioneer nov...

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Autores principales: Fulcher, Michael R., Bolton, Marian L., Millican, Michael D., Michalska-Smith, Matthew J., Dundore-Arias, José Pablo, Handelsman, Jo, Klassen, Jonathan L., Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C., Shade, Ashley, Wolfe, Benjamin E., Kinkel, Linda L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32978058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.004
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author Fulcher, Michael R.
Bolton, Marian L.
Millican, Michael D.
Michalska-Smith, Matthew J.
Dundore-Arias, José Pablo
Handelsman, Jo
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Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C.
Shade, Ashley
Wolfe, Benjamin E.
Kinkel, Linda L.
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spelling pubmed-75079812020-09-23 Broadening Participation in Scientific Conferences during the Era of Social Distancing Fulcher, Michael R. Bolton, Marian L. Millican, Michael D. Michalska-Smith, Matthew J. Dundore-Arias, José Pablo Handelsman, Jo Klassen, Jonathan L. Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C. Shade, Ashley Wolfe, Benjamin E. Kinkel, Linda L. Trends Microbiol Scientific Life Virtual conferences can offer significant benefits but require considerable planning and creativity to be successful. Here we describe the successes and failures of a hybrid in-person/virtual conference model. The COVID-19 epidemic presents the scientific community with an opportunity to pioneer novel models that effectively engage virtual participants to advance conference goals. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7507981/ /pubmed/32978058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.004 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C.
Shade, Ashley
Wolfe, Benjamin E.
Kinkel, Linda L.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32978058
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