rSICB_Planning

Tips and Tricks to Running a Regional Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference

Andrew Schulz* · Pranav Khandelwal

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology

Division of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology Hosting Guide"

Overview of GitHub

In this Github, you will find information on several different items for regional conference planning, including:

Conference Website: Includes links to previous conference websites and information on resources to create a quick and fast conference website on hosting institutions’ webpages

Day of Documents: This includes examples and templates of all documents that are necessary for the day of the conference. This includes organizing lists, templates for creating poster session layouts, Nametag templates, and a parking template to be emailed out to participants.

Email Templates: This folder includes examples of Day, Week, & Month out reminder emails for all participants as well as an initial email template to the masses as well as examples for how to have presenters upload their documents before the conference.

Feedback: This folder contains a detailed report of past rSICB conference feedback given post meeting

Registration: This folder includes a PDF template for a questionnaire for the hosting institutions and the participants and contact lists for attending members and lab groups in the southeast.

Schedule Documents: This folder includes the past rSICB scheduling templates for both in-person and virtual options for the regional SICB meetings. It also includes templates for scheduling at a glance for the final day of the conference for organizers to remain on schedule.

Additionally more information can be found on the arXiV document.

Planning Documents and Templates

Details

In the folder, we have provided both raw 3D scan files as ready-to-print STL files of the Pel's scaly-tailed squirrel.

Access the files here:

git clone https://github.com/Aschulz94/ScalySquirrel

After that do this to install DistillBERT:

Creating a Conference Website

Details

There is no need to do this step if you have followed the instructions and have done it for TEACH. Just use the ones from TEACH.

Citation

@inpreprint{rSICB:ISB:2023,
  title={Tips and Tricks to Running a Regional Interdisciplinary  Scientific Conference},
  author={Schulz, Andrew and Khandelwal, Pranav},
  booktitle = {bioRXiV},
  year = {2023}
}

License

This code is available for all researchers to use and has no license requirement.

References

References soon to come

Contact

These documents/surveys/etc. were implemented by Andrew Schulz during the fall 2021 regional Southeastern Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology Conference

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