Quote from the website:
"Since 2011, SCC has hosted an Annual Cancer Research Symposium to provide a forum for cancer-focused researchers from a variety of disciplines to present and share their research.
The one-day conference covers three different program areas including cancer biology, cancer prevention and control, and cancer therapeutics, with a trainee poster presentation competition for each of the program areas preceding the conference start. The symposium hosts more than 250 participants annually. The target audience is faculty, staff, graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and research members."
The one-day conference covers three different program areas including cancer biology, cancer prevention and control, and cancer therapeutics, with a trainee poster presentation competition for each of the program areas preceding the conference start. The symposium hosts more than 250 participants annually. The target audience is faculty, staff, graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and research members."
At the first session in the afternoon, I gave a 12+3 minutes talk, outlining my recent bioinformatics project on drug target identification.
This symposium is scheduled on March, which may not be the best time considering upcoming AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) annual meeting in April. The contents may be overlapping with the AACR meeting talk or a manuscript with the same contents being submitted to a journal and under consideration for publication.
The meeting was online. But this week they had lifted mask mandate from non-patients-facing areas (mask is encouraged, though) and in-person meeting will start this week.
It took exactly 2 years to come back here.
Covid was a major disruption for work. In fact, the bioinformatics project came into being because I was looking for a project that I could do with less lab work, more remote work, and in a small team. Data-mining fitted the bill.
Now, for covid, I am optimistic. In the two years, we got vaccine for severe disease prevention, anti-viral med and refined use of steroids for severe condition, and free at-home diagnosis kit for early detection. Also, we know who are unreliable source for medical information, don't we?
In the past two waves of delta (Aug-Sept) and omicron (Dec-Jan), most people filling up ER and ICU were vaccine laggards, or high risk individuals such as immune-compromised.
Probably, I am not going to die of covid. I dodged it and I will be fine.
(...unless nasty lethal variants evolve. And in the case, I am not going to die alone. ...yikes)
On the Friday, I was ready to rewind. I went to a tango milonga (8-11pm) then to Salsa/latin social (11:30-2:30ish). Good dancers were coming back, and I got a few pretty good tandas and dances. Two back-to-back dance parties was also the first in this past two years.
