Changing scientific meetings for the better

Conferences are a pivotal part of the scientific enterprise, but large in-person meetings have several disadvantages. As the pandemic experience has shown, online meetings are a viable

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AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Institute for Computational Medicine & Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Sarvenaz

Sarabipour * Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Aziz Khan * Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of

Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Aziz Khan * European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany Yu Fen Samantha Seah * Swedish University of

Agricultural Sciences, Plant Protection Department, Alnarp, Sweden Aneth D. Mwakilili * University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Dar es Salaam,

Tanzania Aneth D. Mwakilili * Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Fiona N. Mumoki * Institut Curie, Paris Sciences & Lettres Research

University, CNRS, UMR 144, Paris, France Pablo J. Sáez * Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Pablo J. Sáez *

Research School Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia Benjamin Schwessinger * Center of Agronomic Research, National Institute of

Agricultural Technology (IPAVE-CIAP-INTA), Córdoba, Argentina Humberto J. Debat * Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology Unit, Dr Zora Profozic Polyclinic, Zagreb, Croatia Tomislav Mestrovic

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