Retrovirology Blog

Meeting Abstracts published in Retrovirology

Retrovirology has recently published the meeting's abstracts from the Fifth Dominique Dormont International Conference http://www.retrovirology.com/supplements/6/S1.  Other meetings that have published their abstracts in Retrovirology can be viewed at http://www.retrovirology.com/supplements/. 

Why should meetings publish their abstracts with Retrovirology?  First, not all colleagues can go to the meeting; and many who did not attend would like to view the abstracts of the presentations at the meeting.  Making your abstracts Open Access by publishing with Retrovirology captures a much wider audience than that reached by a subscription-based journal.  Second, published Retrovirology supplements are listed in PubMed, further broadening the visibiity of the abstracts.  Third, published supplements are permanently archived electronically.  Once a conference has been completed and the conference abstract book has been ditched, a few years later one can still return to the Retrovirology supplements site to find the abstract that one wishes to recall.  

Posted by Kuan-Teh Jeang at 16:10    Comments (0)

Brady-Grassmann-Harrington Retrovirology Award in Brazil

At the 14th International Retrovirology Association (IRA) Conference held in Salvador, Brazil, July 2009, Retrovirology renamed its biennial HTLV-award as the Brady - Grassmann - Harrington HTLV Prize.  This renaming was done in order to honor three esteemed HTLV-1 scientists who passed away recently (John Brady, Ralph Grassmann, and Bill Harrington).  The first Brady-Grassmann-Harrington HTLV Prize was presented to Carlos Brites.  Previous Retrovirology HTLV prizes presented at past IRA conferences have gone to Charles Bangham and Mitsuaki Yoshida.

The Brady-Grassmann-Harrington HTLV Prize was presented by KT Jeang (left) and Luc Willems (right) to Carlos Brites (center).

Posted by Kuan-Teh Jeang at 15:50    Comments (0)