We wrapped up the year with a handful of Fall conferences at home and abroad, spanning Colorado to California, Canada and Ireland. These meetings featured Keystone Symposia's signature emerging science and unpublished data, as well as career development and networking opportunities that are critical to the professional growth and success of our attendees.
In addition, our Fall conferences featured some new programming to enhance the attendee experience, including:
These special programming additions provided forums for trainees, early-careers scientists and established researchers alike to develop the skills, knowledge and connections to achieve their professional goals.
Read more about enhanced programming below
Inspiring Science & Scientists in New Directions
Excellent environment promoting dynamic interaction and sharing of information and experience. Good representation of senior and junior investigators, across different areas of expertise.
-Attendee (Anonymous Survey Response)
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Keystone Symposia Fellow Dr. Yvon Woappi Speaking at the Podium #KSFibrosis25
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Honoring Scholarship Award Winners @ #KSFibrosis25
Enhanced Programming for Professional Development
Drawing on feedback from past conference and eSymposia attendees, we implemented some new programming inspired by your ideas and interests! These programming additions reach beyond the science to support professional development and enhance attendees engagement with each other to strengthen networks and communities.
Women in Science Networking Events
Our Women in Science Networking Events are designed to promote gender equity at our conferences and within the scientific community as a whole, by providing support, mentorship and career development opportunities for women who face unique challenges in their professional careers. Read more here.
Meet-the-Editor Workshops
Meet-the-Editor Workshops are designed to foster connections between editors and scientists of all career stages. These mutually beneficial relationships facilitate the publication process for researchers, while providing editors with insights into exciting new discoveries and research directions to showcase in upcoming journal issues.
Moving forward, we will add Meet-the-Editor Workshops at more of our conferences to help attendees better understand and navigate the publishing world to their advantage.
I loved the size of the conference. As a graduate student, I would rarely get a chance to interact with other researchers at multiple career stages, unless I was introduced by my PI. Here, as the group was so small, interactions between all attendees were natural and impromptu.
I also loved the panel discussions after each set of talks. It was invaluable to see multiple researchers reason their points especially when considering other evidence presented in their session. I felt the tone of the conference was more informal as a result of these factors and led to a more natural discussion on dry AMD as a general topic.
-Attendee (Anonymous Survey Response)
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