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What are the main characteristics of scientific conferences and what distinguishes the successful meetings from the less successful? Here, semi-seriously, I present a set of observations and suggestions that are organized into categories (such as big versus little conferences and long versus short conferences) and, for each category, I award the new meeting Oscars — the Georges.
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Petsko, G. The highs and lows of scientific conferences. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 7, 231–234 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm1832
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