Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Postcard From the AACR 2012 Annual Meeting - Part 4

AACR 2012 meeting summary - Part 4
The Grapevine, quotes, and interesting stuff


The presentations


Pale lime green titles on a white background = unreadable slides #aacr
                                          — Sally Church (@MaverickNY) April 1, 2012


Pale lime green titles on a white background = unreadable slides #aacr


Many session chairs are not allowing questions- time constraints. who's fault is that? Isn't science about asking questions?! #AACR
                                          — David Woessner (@pinfoto) April 1, 2012


Big problem.RT @lunchbox291: Every time a presenter says "as you all know...", I have no clue what they're talking about #AACR
                                           —Naoto T. Ueno 上野直人 (@teamoncology) April 1, 2012


Every time a presenter says "as you all know...", I have no clue what they're talking about #AACR
                                             — Joe Schmidt (@lunchbox291) April 1, 2012


Session titles often don't truly describe the speaker or poster presentations. Anyone agree? #AACR
                                              — Caroline Rousseau (@CaroRousse) April 2, 2012




Observations


In Chicago #AACR: "Accelerating Science: Concept to Clinic" focus on -omics and translation. Will there be evidence of "acceleration?.
                                              — Sue Desmond-Hellmann (@UCSFChancellor) April 2, 2012




Julie Parsonnet: all nobles for cancer etiology were for infectious origins of cancer #AACR
                                            — Brendan Maher (@bmahersciwriter) April 2, 2012


Parsonnet: Of course the first one, the father of the field, fininger, was dead wrong #AACR
                                             — Brendan Maher (@bmahersciwriter) April 2, 2012


Shyr talking about Nature paper last week on reproducibility of cancer research results. #AACR
                                             — Laura Strong (@scientre) April 2, 2012


More BV: Cancers result from cells making mistakes. This is a built-in function. If they couldn't do this, we'd still be amoebae. #AACR
                                            — NatureReviewsCancer (@NatureRevCancer) April 2, 2012 






#AACR editorial】 Some time you wonder whether the basic scientists are oversimplifying the clinical situation.   
                                          —Naoto T. Ueno 上野直人 (@teamoncology) April 2, 2012




#AACR Editorial】 So far there is nothing that feels like very provocative findings. I feel more steady progress in cancer research.
                                          —Naoto T. Ueno 上野直人 (@teamoncology) April 2, 2012


@mikeymitschele #AACR can be "interesting" but rarely investable. Early-stage research isn't gonna move #biotech stocks much.
                                            — Adam Feuerstein (@adamfeuerstein) April 2, 2012



Funstuff 




@IonTorrent bus reminds me of playstation. via@kaskoen: @IonTorrent at #AACR twitter.com/kaskoen/status…
                                              — Lori L. (@bigfeet5grl) April 2, 2012


Need a break from talks and meetings at #AACR? Pick up our popular Coloring with Cell coloring book at booth 3508.
                                               — CellPressNews (@CellPressNews) April 2, 2012


A Pablo Picasso quote is featured on our new gBlocks' T-shirts. Stop by booth 4007 and get yours #AACR twitter.com/idtdna/status/…
                                               — Integrated DNA Tech (@idtdna) April 2, 2012


(Everything you can imagine is real - Pablo Picasso)


Not everything was rosy :-( 


Waiting 20 mins & counting for #6 conf bus to go back to Chicago - several bus loads in line #aacr ugh!
                                               — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 2, 2012


Seems the #aacr buses run on a London schedule... Three number 5's come and no number 6's sigh. Line snaking thru convention hall
                                                — Sally Church (@MaverickNY) April 2, 2012


It is poor planning not to have coaches ready for end of pm sessions: 27 mins and counting at peak time is unacceptable #aacr
                                                 — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 2, 2012


Not a good sign when the #aacr bus driver looks as old as Methuselah spends 5 mins trying to adjust seat then drives off with door open
                                              — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 3, 2012


#aacr bus driver now makes wrong turn in downtown Chicago - hard to go wrong but now doing the loop - this has long day written all over it
                                            — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 3, 2012


#aacr bus driver now asking conf attendees on coach for directions "I am not from Chicago" - hilarious but for fact I'm now late for session
                                           — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 3, 2012


Still driving around Chicago in the "lost" #aacr Conf coach "please be patient" says driver. #fail twitter.com/3NT/status/187…
                                           — Pieter Droppert (@3NT) April 3, 2012


RELATED POSTS:
Postcard From the AACR 2012 Annual Meeting - Part 1
Postcard From the AACR 2012 Annual Meeting - Part 2
Postcard From the AACR 2012 Annual Meeting - Part 3
Postcard From the AACR 2012 Annual Meeting - Part 5
Breast Cancer Tweets From AACR 2012 Annual Meeting


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