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Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions
In 2020, the world faced the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic that drastically altered people’s lives. Since then, many countries have been forced to suspend public gatherings, leading to many conference cancellations, postponements, or reorganizations. Switching...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34662331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009321 |
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author | Guignon, Valentin Breton, Catherine Mariette, Jérôme Sabot, François Fumey, Julien Lefort, Vincent Fiston-Lavier, Anna-Sophie |
author_facet | Guignon, Valentin Breton, Catherine Mariette, Jérôme Sabot, François Fumey, Julien Lefort, Vincent Fiston-Lavier, Anna-Sophie |
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description | In 2020, the world faced the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic that drastically altered people’s lives. Since then, many countries have been forced to suspend public gatherings, leading to many conference cancellations, postponements, or reorganizations. Switching from a face-to-face to a remote conference became inevitable and the ultimate solution to sustain scientific exchanges at the national and the international levels. The same year, as a committee, we were in charge of organizing the major French annual conference that covers all computational biology areas: The “Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques” (JOBIM). Despite the health crisis, we succeeded in changing the conference format from face to face to remote in a very short amount of time. Here, we propose 10 simple rules based on this experience to modify a conference format in an optimized and cost-effective way. In addition to the suggested rules, we decided to emphasize an unexpected benefit of this situation: a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to travel for scientific conference attendance. We believe that even once the SARS-CoV-2 crisis is over, we collectively will have an opportunity to think about the way we approach such scientific events over the longer term. |
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spelling | pubmed-85230382021-10-19 Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions Guignon, Valentin Breton, Catherine Mariette, Jérôme Sabot, François Fumey, Julien Lefort, Vincent Fiston-Lavier, Anna-Sophie PLoS Comput Biol Editorial In 2020, the world faced the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic that drastically altered people’s lives. Since then, many countries have been forced to suspend public gatherings, leading to many conference cancellations, postponements, or reorganizations. Switching from a face-to-face to a remote conference became inevitable and the ultimate solution to sustain scientific exchanges at the national and the international levels. The same year, as a committee, we were in charge of organizing the major French annual conference that covers all computational biology areas: The “Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques” (JOBIM). Despite the health crisis, we succeeded in changing the conference format from face to face to remote in a very short amount of time. Here, we propose 10 simple rules based on this experience to modify a conference format in an optimized and cost-effective way. In addition to the suggested rules, we decided to emphasize an unexpected benefit of this situation: a significant reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to travel for scientific conference attendance. We believe that even once the SARS-CoV-2 crisis is over, we collectively will have an opportunity to think about the way we approach such scientific events over the longer term. Public Library of Science 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8523038/ /pubmed/34662331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009321 Text en © 2021 Guignon et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Guignon, Valentin Breton, Catherine Mariette, Jérôme Sabot, François Fumey, Julien Lefort, Vincent Fiston-Lavier, Anna-Sophie Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title | Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title_full | Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title_fullStr | Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title_full_unstemmed | Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title_short | Ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: An opportunity to estimate the reduction in GHG emissions |
title_sort | ten simple rules for switching from face-to-face to remote conference: an opportunity to estimate the reduction in ghg emissions |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8523038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34662331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009321 |
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