2021 Symposia Speakers

The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia

UNLABELLED We investigated the hypothesis that the gender of conveners at scientific meetings influenced the gender distribution of invited speakers. Analysis of 460 symposia involving 1,845 speakers in two large meetings sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology revealed that having at least one woman member of the convening team correlated with a significantly higher proportion of in...

Symposia Abstracts

Do hierarchies within a stem cell lineage consist of a discrete series of stages with progressively narrowing developmental potential, or a continuum with reversible transitions along the way towards the fully differentiated state? Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) cultures are not homogenous but contain a mixed population of cells that we hypothesise represent stages in a differentiation hierar...

Keystone symposia

Symposia and Oral Sessions

While both Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni are frequent causes of human campylobacteriosis, a common conclusion of health care professionals and researchers alike is that C. jejuni is the more pathogenic or virulent species. C. jejuni has been shown to be superior in enterotoxin production, suggesting that C. jejuni is more enterotoxigenic, and as such, potentially more virulent than C. coli. ...

Satellite Symposia Abstracts

Major depressive disorder is frequently diagnosed based on the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), which emphasises depressed mood and anhedonia as key symptoms. While the increased negative affect is well represented in the standard questionnaires, the presence of positive affect is usually not assessed. Furthermore, the reliability of th...