World Science Day for Peace and Development

How can we create more green jobs for youth and accelerate the shift to a sustainable economy? Join us for an insightful session to explore the incentives needed to drive green job creation for young people, and strategies to prepare youth for these opportunities. Learn how a just transition offers a unique opportunity to address climate and environmental change while boosting economic growth and labour markets.

Watch Creating a sustainable future with and for young people!

Why Science Matters?

This year, during the High-Level Political Forum 2024 (HLPF) country delegations, the scientific community, NGOs, and other key stakeholders reconvene for a second time to continue discussing the role of science in SDG acceleration. Science Day is an initiative co-convened by SEI, UNDP,  UN SDSN, ISC, and UN DESA to position the need for including scientific evidence in the decision-making around the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030.

Watch Science Day 2024 - Harnessing the Power of Science for the SDGs - Evidence-Based Implementation Successes Worldwide (HLPF 2024 Side Event)!

AAAS is committed to making the Annual Meeting an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. See our meeting policies and help us foster a safe space for all.  Follow the conversations with the hastags #AAASmtg

2024 AAAS Annual Meeting takes place in Denver, CO, February 15-17. Plenary sessions and Sci-Mic Stage Chats will be streamed live. See schedule and tune in!

Annual Meeting program

Scientific Sessions: Science and technology experts assemble in small multi-disciplinary panels to discuss research that advances Toward Science Without Walls. During these 60-minute sessions, a panel of three speakers give 10-minute presentations followed by audience questions and comments. Lightning Talks: Early career researchers take the stage for ten minutes to discuss their STEM work. Workshops: Workshops are aimed at individuals seeking careers in science and engineering. Workshops are instructional and interactive in nature and are markedly different from a scientific session. Workshops may have up to 3 presenters and will be 60 minutes in length.

SCIENTIFIC SESSION, WORKSHOP, AND LIGHTNING TALK TIMELINE

March 5; 2024 theme is announced, and session submission site opens. May 4; Deadline to propose Scientific Sessions, Workshop, and Lighting Talks. May 15; Session proposal review begins with volunteer session reviewers. July; Program Committee meets for the final review to select Scientific Sessions, Workshop, and Lighting Talks. Mid-August; Scientific Session and Lightning Talk organizers receive accept/decline notifications. Mid-August; Workshop coordinators receive accept/decline notifications. Mid-October; 2023 Annual Meeting program and registration available online. February 16-17; Scientific Sessions, Workshop, and Lighting Talks take place at the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting.

The session and workshop timeline is updated as of September 13, 2023.

Science and technology would proceed faster and better in an ecosystem free of barriers that currently separate us by discipline, approach, institution, nation, access, wealth, seniority, race, and gender; we shall AAAS Annual meeting- Towards science without walls.

Theme of the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting is "Toward Science Without Walls."

Keith Yamamoto is vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, director of precision medicine, and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF. He is the AAAS President and Chair of the Meeting presents the theme of the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting: Toward Science Without Walls. Video includes opening remarks by Gilda Barabino, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and Thomas Cech.

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ISC Member, the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), is inviting to the fifth lecture in the frame of the IUBS Centenary Webinar Series, which will be delivered by Christine H. Foyer, Scchoolof Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.

Climate change is the defining issue of our generation. In this presentation, I will introduce the topic of climate change, the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, covering photosynthesis and its importance in ecosystems, particularly in relation to the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect and nature-based solutions to climate change.  I will discuss how scientists measure the impact of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in crops and forests using Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) sites. I will use two examples: the FACE site in Urbana USA that focusses on crops and the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) FACE site that studies how forest ecosystems will respond to future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. I will discuss some of the results obtained to date and their implications for society and the UK roadmap to net zero.

Speaker

Prof. Christine H. Foyer is one of the most successful plant physiologists worldwide and has been working for many years in the fields of environmental stress adaptation and photosynthesis. She describes her own lecture in a brief abstract:

Climate change is the defining issue of our generation. In this presentation, I will introduce the topic of climate change, the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, covering photosynthesis and its importance in ecosystems, particularly in relation to the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect and nature-based solutions to climate change.  I will discuss how scientists measure the impact of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in crops and forests using Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) sites. I will use two examples: the FACE site in Urbana USA that focusses on crops and the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) FACE site that studies how forest ecosystems will respond to future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. I will discuss some of the results obtained to date and their implications for society and the UK roadmap to net zero. Register

The Pan-American Physiological Sciences 2023 (PANAM Physiological Sciences 2023) is the major scientific meeting in physiological and medical sciences for the Americas for 2023. This meeting is held every four years, and 2023 meeting in Chile follows 2019 in Habana, Cuba, and 2014 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

General topics will cover systems physiology & pathophysiology, cardiovascular diseases, immunology & cancer, diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, respiratory and neurophysiology, free radicals & oxidative stress, vascular physiology & pathophysiology, muscle physiology & pathophysiology, renal & gastrointestinal physiology, biochemistry & biophysics behind physiology, pregnancy & programming of diseases, preterm birth, diabetes and obesity in pregnancy, endocrine & metabolism, BigData & AI in physiology, translational medicine and basic sciences, education in physiology, and lab-work in physiology.

For this event, the 2023 annual meetings of SCHCF and ALACF will coincide with PANAM Physiological Sciences 2023, taking place at the Enjoy Hotel Puerto Varas.

Scientific research and studies into plastic pollution have been growing quite fast over the last couple of decades. It is essential that we take full advantage of the best available knowledge when we look for solutions to tackle this global problem. In March 2021, Iceland and the Nordic Council of Ministers hosted a successful First symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region with participants calling for a follow up in the near future.

For these reasons, the Government of Iceland, with the support of the Nordic Council of Ministers, will host a Second International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region at Harpa, Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Center, on 22-23 November 2023. The aim is to gather scientific, Indigenous and local knowledge on plastic pollution and discuss ways and means to reduce the impact of plastics on Arctic ecosystems.

REGISTER The Government of Iceland has already received confirmation from the following organizations and institutions to become partners in the event. These are the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the Oslo and Paris Commission (OSPAR), the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the University of the Arctic (UArctic), the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) the Polar Institute of Wilson Center, GRID-Arendal, the Center for the Ocean and the Arctic, UiT the Arctic University of Norway and the Nature Institute of Greenland. Iceland is interested in extending the collaboration and partnership in the symposium and will welcome additional partners for the event. The symposium is being held with financial support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The planned symposium will build on the foundation of science of the first symposium and produce information and advice for decision makers. The symposium aims for exchange of views and updates of knowledge from various sources. The symposium will evaluate the present extent and nature of plastic pollution in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions and discuss its impact on ecosystems and communities. The origin of plastic litter, how it is transported to or in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic region and how breakdown processes are affecting the status of pollution will also be addressed.

Finally the symposium will focus on possible mitigation methods and how they can be implemented and provide useful input to the ongoing negotiations on an international agreement on plastic pollution, and to other ongoing relevant international work to support protection of the marine environment. A high-level scientific steering committee has been established to assist in developing the program of the symposium.

Conference themes

Monitoring and assessment of plastic pollution in the Arctic.

Methodological developments to determine macro, micro and nano plastics.         

Sources and transport of plastic in the Arctic and sub-Arctic.

Impacts of marine litter in the Arctic (environmental, economic and social).

Arctic challenges and solutions for improved waste management.

Tackling plastic pollution: international collaboration, policies, best practices and novel developments from around the world.

Marine litter, particularly when made of plastic, is one of the more challenging problems affecting the marine environment globally. Plastics account for 72% of all marine litter in the world ocean.

Register to participate to the 2nd international symposium on plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region.

A collaboration between the U.S. National Committees on: Crystallography, Chemistry, CODATA & the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.

As part of Advancing Drug Discovery: A Webinar Series of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a session on Beyond the Microscope: Cryo-EM’s Impact on Accelerating Drug Discovery will be held on Thursday, November 16th, 2023 at noon (EDT). The 60-minute session will consist a presentation from Sandra Gabelli, Head of Structural biology at Merck & co and formally Executive Director of Protein and Structural Chemistry.

Over the past decade, single particle cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) has transitioned from a niche technique to a powerful tool for structural biology. This is due, in part, to technological breakthroughs which have made it relatively routine to achieve near molecule formulations for protein targets of pharmacological interest in complex with drug candidates. The pharmaceutical industry has historically relied heavily on X-ray crystallography to enable structure-based drug design (SBDD); however, today cryoEM is playing an ever-increasing role in that process, especially for challenging samples like large multimeric complexes, proteins that are flexible, or proteins that are difficult to express or purify. Dr. Gabelli will describe the strategy and present examples were cryoEM has impacted the pipeline at Merck by enabling biology, guiding SBDD, driving protein engineering of biologics and impacting small molecule formulations with micro ED. Dr. Gabelli will also explore the potential offered by upcoming technological advancements of the technique.Register

Following on from the success of the 2022 Vocabulary Symposium, the ARDC invites you to the 2023 Vocabulary Symposium on 14 and 15 November 2023.

This is a 2-day hybrid event bringing together people from domains across disciplines spanning research, government and industry, including those from the ARDC Thematic Research Data Commons. The aim is to communicate and promote approaches to using, developing, publishing and maintaining vocabularies. The event will cover Australian and international initiatives that demonstrate the impact and value of FAIR vocabularies for maximising the reuse value of data within and across domains.

The program for the Symposium is out now. The Symposium will feature keynote presentations from:

Arofan Gregory, a standards expert at CODATA, who will present on “Controlled Vocabularies in a Changing Metadata Landscape”.

Jen Drysdale, a cultural heritage informatics and analytics specialist at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, who will discuss “The Role of Vocabularies in Cultural Heritage and the Impact of New Strategic Drivers”.

Register to participate!