"Does our budget cover reimbursement of Mars bars?" "Let me check sentence 4.6 of clause 7, chargeable items under section 5 of ... ." This wasn?t the sort of conversation we would ever have expected to be having approximately 1 year after the EMBL PhD Student Symposium on Evolution was first conceived. At that time, thoughts revolved around how to bring the Pope and Richard Dawkins together in t...
In Part 1 of this article, we wrote about our role in organizing an international conference on evolution. As the conference got under way, it seemed quite phenomenal that we should have needed a whole year to prepare for the event. Of course, a number of things were unforeseen. Allowing 1 hour to register 150 participants was a little over-optimistic, but the minor chaos that ensued certainly wo...
