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May 22, 2025 by Shannon Weiman
The brain-body connection was on full display at the April Keystone Symposia on interoception at the Allen Institute in Seattle. The research at this meeting marked a departure from traditional...
May 6, 2025 by Shannon Weiman
Featuring conference season highlights, spotlights on innovation and more, this biannual...
May 6, 2025 by Keystone Symposia
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Keystone Symposia’s founder, Charles Frederick Fox ("Fred" Fox). We take this opportunity to celebrate his life, and the legacy that he started...
Fellows Friday discussions provided a ‘template’ for structuring our approach to the SAB, interacting with mentors, and connecting with Fellow alumni.
The Keystone Symposia Fellows Program made me more savvy and optimistic about my career path. The Fellows Friday writing sessions were especially helpful and played a big part in getting my first last-author paper published in PNAS.
I was very impressed by the high standard of science which was presented at this meeting. The meeting was attended by the who’s who of diabetes and obesity research in the world, many of whom, of course, are old friends and collaborators of mine. Overall, without any hesitation I can say this was one of the most stimulating conferences that I have attended in recent times. One of the highlights of the conference was the one to one networking opportunities with the editors of top journals of the Nature and Cell group, many of whom have now become good friends of mine. This has also led to some possible publications in some of their journals. I wish to congratulate you and your whole team on the way in which the Symposia was organized. I do look forward to continued interaction with you in the future.
Keystone Symposia has always been willing to take risks in supporting meetings around new areas of biology and embracing the concept of bringing people from different research disciplines together with the goal of fostering new research directions.
The speaker selection was fantastic and in fact, this was one of the best conferences I've been to with respect to female speakers, as well as representation of women at all career stages.
Keystone Symposia are amazing meetings that have sparked entirely new directions and have fostered interdisciplinary science!
The future would not have looked so bright without Keystone Symposia – sort of like “It's a Wonderful Life” of life sciences!
I thought it was really entertaining when I introduced my trainees to Tom Cech at a 2017 meeting and Tom was terrific and approachable. My trainees never forgot that firstly, senior/well known scientists can be so fun to talk to, and also that as a mentor, they really appreciated me connecting them to leaders in the field.
The Keystone fellows program unlocks an extraordinary network of other fellows, scientific leaders, SAB members, and more. Don't hesitate to reach out to this network for future collaborators, scientific advice, or career advice as everyone is more than willing to help.
I have the strongest emotional attachment to the Keystone Symposia among scientific meetings. I still remember feeling inspired and overwhelmed at my first Keystone Symposia as a trainee…fifteen years have passed and I still feel the same way. These experiences tremendously influenced my career trajectory and have provided the highest quality science and best network opportunities.
With their smaller size, fantastic settings, and outstanding scientific value, Keystone meetings have been invaluable to the scientific and biomedical enterprise.
Keystone Symposia conferences bring terrific groups of researchers scattered across the globe, under one roof, and provide the opportunity to unify concepts, define key questions, and share techniques.
The Keystone Symposia meetings are a unique academic treasure and provided me the opportunity to connect with my science heroes when I was young scientist.
Even more than for most Keystone topics, the value of this conference (Long COVID) was community-building. It's a topic area that has lacked community and avenues of communication between people working in very distinct fields and places. The connections forged at this meeting were obvious and, I think, revolutionary for driving the science forward.
Cutting-edge science and community building, which embody the Keystone Symposia "brand," were instrumental in building my confidence as a scientist and making me realize that I am part of a larger engine of discovery. Keep fighting for inclusion and equity, to provide a platform where people from all over the world and all walks of life feel empowered to pursue science.
Keystone Symposia meetings are a fantastic place to listen to great talks on topics you care about, meet with colleagues, funders, and editors to talk science and have fun, and to mentor young students, postdocs and investigators. It is unique!
I've been going to Keystone conferences since I was a graduate student. Later in my graduate career, I came to Keystone and presented a poster, and I actually found my postdoctoral mentor at a Keystone meeting. Throughout the years, I went to many more Keystone meetings. As a postdoc I was funded for a travel scholarship many times and then as an independent researcher, I had the opportunity to receive a Keystone Fellowship position and that's been really valuable to me as well. I've been able to stay involved in the Keystone academic community and now actually plan my own conference that I'm very excited about. Keystone Symposia has been in an integral part of my professional success.
