NBS-nytt
15.02.2017
We all know that the best biochemical event of the year is the NBS winter meeting, and the 2017 meeting was really remarkable! The plenary lectures were excellent and the high quality science was presented by speakers that also focused on the audience.
Through the minisymposia and posters we got the essence of projects and expertise across Norway and we could also appreciate that the latest recruits have a lot of talent. Even the commercial exhibitors were ingenious and significantly contributed to the success of the meeting. Thanks to our colleagues at NMBU for good organization and selection of themes. Soon after the first presentations it was clear that the program was meeting the expectations, but we nevertheless felt that there was room for more colleagues sharing and enjoyed this program. We have discussed before the challenges of segmentation of the classic disciplines such as Biochemistry, leading to high demands in order to keep pace with increasing number of specialized technologies and concepts, omics approaches and specific conferences. Paradoxically, one of the issues that became very apparent in this years' presentations at the winter meeting was that the often discussed confrontations in the field, e.g. between omics/big data/fishing expeditions in one direction and basic/mechanistic and f
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