03-19-2025, 08:30 PM
So it begins.
When all the crap came down about funding at NIH and elsewhere, travel restrictions were also imposed from On High. You might remember it. Work was stopped, committee members sent home, etc. Some folks were denied the ability to go to yearly conferences and national meetings, and there was a real question about whether even training that had been in the works for months would be allowed. Yeah, feels like forever even though it’s been a few months
My profession is in the medical research field; I am a cytometrist (I run instrumentation looking at cells). There is a yearly meeting for folks that use such instrumentation, be they immunologists or biologists or engineers or other professionals and scientists who make use of, who think about making use of, or improve the technology. Looking at pollen? Microplastics? Mammalian cells? Plants? Marine microbiology? Cell parts, brain, blood, liver, kidney, lymph nodes, lung? This community is worldwide, and the biggest meeting is CYTO. This year it is in Florida, next year somewhere else in the US, and then it will go elsewhere (Europe, in Finland). The idea is to make it accessible to all.
I am on a listserve of this community, based from Purdue. If the listserver goes down, I’m sure it’s backed up somewhere and it won’t take long for it to be resurrected. It would be horrifying it it were intentionally taken down, as it is a repository of all kinds of information.
There has been a recent thread, from individuals in Canada, that they will not be attending because of the political climate in this country, and have begun asking about either virtual at CYTO or alternative meetings altogether outside of the US. The conversations have begun.
When all the crap came down about funding at NIH and elsewhere, travel restrictions were also imposed from On High. You might remember it. Work was stopped, committee members sent home, etc. Some folks were denied the ability to go to yearly conferences and national meetings, and there was a real question about whether even training that had been in the works for months would be allowed. Yeah, feels like forever even though it’s been a few months
My profession is in the medical research field; I am a cytometrist (I run instrumentation looking at cells). There is a yearly meeting for folks that use such instrumentation, be they immunologists or biologists or engineers or other professionals and scientists who make use of, who think about making use of, or improve the technology. Looking at pollen? Microplastics? Mammalian cells? Plants? Marine microbiology? Cell parts, brain, blood, liver, kidney, lymph nodes, lung? This community is worldwide, and the biggest meeting is CYTO. This year it is in Florida, next year somewhere else in the US, and then it will go elsewhere (Europe, in Finland). The idea is to make it accessible to all.
I am on a listserve of this community, based from Purdue. If the listserver goes down, I’m sure it’s backed up somewhere and it won’t take long for it to be resurrected. It would be horrifying it it were intentionally taken down, as it is a repository of all kinds of information.
There has been a recent thread, from individuals in Canada, that they will not be attending because of the political climate in this country, and have begun asking about either virtual at CYTO or alternative meetings altogether outside of the US. The conversations have begun.
