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Maite Freitas Silva Vaslin, Gustavo Peixoto Duarte da Silva, Alessandra Alevato Leal, Larissa Mayumi Bueno, Cintia Bittar, Gabriela Fabiano de Souza, Karine Lourenco, Maria Isabel Maldonado Coelho Guedes, Jose Luiz Proenca-Modena, Joao Pessoa Araujo Junior, Helena Lage Ferreira, Flavio Guimaraes da Fonseca
Summary: The Brazilian Society for Virology organized its annual national meeting in October 2022. After two consecutive online events, the 33rd meeting marked the return to in-person format. The meeting gathered undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students, as well as international researchers, to discuss the latest virology research. Despite a slight decrease in attendance due to the associated costs, the meeting successfully achieved its goals of inspiring scientists and promoting high-quality research.
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Virology
Maite Freitas Silva Vaslin, Alessandra Alevato Leal, Larissa Mayumi Bueno, Cintia Bittar, Gabriela Fabiano de Souza, Karine Lourenco, Gustavo Peixoto Duarte da Silva, Maria Isabel Maldonado Coelho Guedes, Jose Luiz Proenca-Modena, Joao Pessoa Araujo Junior, Helena Lage Ferreira, Flavio Guimaraes da Fonseca
Summary: The Brazilian Society of Virology has successfully organized its 32nd annual meeting, yet again in an online format due to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting attracted a large number of attendees, particularly undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students, who had the opportunity to hear distinguished scientists from different countries present high-quality conferences and see young scientists showcase their latest research results. Despite the difficulties of another pandemic year, the 32nd SBV annual meeting achieved its primary goal of inspiring young scientists and facilitating discussions on high-quality virology research.
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Luciana Barros de Arruda, Fabricio Souza Campos, Jonatas Santos Abrahao, Flavio Guimaraes da Fonseca, Joao Pessoa Araujo Junior, Fernando Rosado Spilki
Summary: The 2020 edition of the Brazilian Society of Virology congress was held online for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attracting more than 921 participants. The meeting featured insightful talks from prominent national and international researchers on various aspects of virology and specifically focused on new data and perspectives regarding COVID-19.
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Adithi A. Tirumalai, Elizabeth L. George, Aditi Kashikar, Ashley H. Langston, Kara A. Rothenberg, Nicolas B. Barreto, Amber W. Trickey, Shipra Arya
Summary: The proportion of women in leadership positions, moderators, and plenary speakers in surgical societies and conferences slightly increased from 2014 to 2018. There is significant variability in gender representation across different societies, with some showing improvement in gender equity while others still need substantial room for progress.
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(2021)
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Cell Biology
Emily B. Carter, Morgan Pugh-Toole, Ahmed Kabil, Jeanette E. Boudreau, Sarah Nersesian
Summary: The Canadian Society for Immunology 2022 Annual Meeting brought together immunologists from across Canada to discuss current topics and research in immunology. This article highlights the published work presented during three thematic symposia, focusing on immune development, primary immune deficiencies, and regulation of anti-tumor immunity.
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Christina C. Huang, Kaitlyn Lapen, Kanan Shah, Jolie Kantor, Chiaojung Jillian Tsai, Miriam A. Knoll, Narjust Duma, Erin F. Gillespie, Fumiko Chino
Summary: A study evaluated the differences in the use of professional titles in introductions of speakers at recent American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meetings, finding that male introducers were less likely to use professional introductions and overall use of professional introductions decreased from 2017 to 2019. Furthermore, no difference in professional introduction use by speaker gender was identified at the recent meetings.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Geetu Prakash Bhandoria, Navya Nair, Sadie Esme Fleur Jones, Ane Gerda Eriksson, Heng-Cheng Hsu, Florencia Noll, Wasim Ahmed
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER
(2021)
Editorial Material
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Diane S. Lauderdale
Summary: Research shows that women are significantly under-represented as symposium speakers at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, but not in concurrent contributed sessions. The gender contrast between the speakers at these two types of presentations may be due to different submission and review processes.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
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Caroline Kay, Rob Kuper, Elizabeth A. Becker
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Luciana Cacciottola, Marie-Madeleine Dolmans, Glenn L. Schattman
Summary: The International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP) held its first virtual meeting on November 19, 2021. Eight experts in reproductive medicine presented important updates on their research in the field of fertility preservation and reproductive surgery for absolute uterine factor infertility. The presentations covered various topics, including ovarian stem cell therapy for premature ovarian insufficiency, practical aspects of oocyte vitrification, ovarian stimulation for patients with breast cancer, and more.
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Aazad Abbas, Olumide Olotu, Akeshdeep Bhatia, Denis Selimovic, Alireza Tajik, Jeremie Larouche, Henry Ahn, Albert Yee, Stephen Lewis, Joel Finkelstein, Jay Toor, Fares Alahdab
Summary: This study utilized machine learning models to predict the subsequent publication of abstracts presented at the North American Spine Society annual general meetings. The best performing model during training was partial least squares with an AUC of 0.77±0.05 and an accuracy of 75.5%±4.7%, while the best performing model during testing was random forest with an AUC of 0.69 and an accuracy of 67%.
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Pedro Staziaki, Joao A. A. Santinha, Marcelo O. Coelho, Diego Angulo, Mohannad Hussain, Les R. Folio
Summary: This manuscript reports our experience at the 2021 SIIM Virtual Hackathon, where we developed a proof-of-concept for a radiology training module with gamification elements. Within the allotted 50 hours, we proposed an idea, collaborated with colleagues from five different countries, and completed an operational proof-of-concept, which was demonstrated live at the hackathon showcase, competing with eight other teams. Our prototype involved participants annotating publicly available chest radiographs of tuberculosis patients, and we demonstrated how experience points could be awarded to trainees based on annotation precision compared to ground truth radiologists' annotation, ranked in a live leaderboard. We believe that gamification elements can provide an engaging solution for radiology education. Our project was awarded first place out of eight participating hackathon teams.
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Summary: The 84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society was held in a web-based format for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attracting over 16,800 registered attendees and demonstrating the power of online information dissemination. The evolution of online academic meetings will be a direction that cannot be reversed in the future.
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(2021)
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Lydia J. Wilson, Frederico C. Kiffer, Daniel C. Berrios, Abigail Bryce-Atkinson, Sylvain V. Costes, Olivier Gevaert, Bruno F. E. Matarese, Jack Miller, Pritam Mukherjee, Kristen Peach, Paul N. Schofield, Luke T. Slater, Britta Langen
Summary: The era of high-throughput techniques has generated large amounts of data in the medical and research fields. Machine intelligence (MI) approaches are being used to overcome limitations in processing, analyzing, and interpreting these massive data sets. The 67th Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society featured a symposium on MI approaches, highlighting recent advancements in radiation sciences and their clinical applications. This article summarizes three presentations on metadata processing and ontological formalization, data mining for radiation outcomes in pediatric oncology, and imaging in lung cancer.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
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Helmut Schoellnberger, Lawrence T. Dauer, Richard Wakeford, Julie Constanzo, Ashley Golden
Summary: This article summarizes presentations from a session on Radiation and Circulatory Effects at the Radiation Research Society Online 67(th) Annual Meeting. The talks showed that low/moderate doses of radiation can be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is uncertainty in the epidemiological results.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
