This collection comprises materials relating to the Sectoral Meetings held by EMBO. It contains correspondence, and meeting documents such as programmes, participant lists, and reports.
Due to many scientists having primary loyalty to a subsection of molecular biology and therefore a secondary loyalty to molecular biology as a whole, some scientists had the feeling EMBO was not particularly important to their specific sector. The EMBO Council felt that establishing sectoral meetings would be a good way to ensure that the organisation did not miss out on new developments within different areas of the life sciences, and to build up contacts within these areas. It therefore approved meetings with scientists from Neurobiology and Immunology to discuss their impact on society, with a view to holding more meetings on other subsections of the life sciences in the future.
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