Last week, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory hosted Annexins 2017. This international conference is held in a different location every other year, and CSHL was chosen for the 2017 meeting because of its accessibility, on-campus amenities, and proximity to New York City. We are proud to have hosted the Annexins community and checked in with two of its three organizers – Katherine Hajjar and Jacob Rand – to talk about the conference. 

As the annexin community grows, the organizers do their part to ensure the “newcomers” take part in the conference: 

Speaking of abstracts, Annexins 2017 did adopt the CSHL Meetings & Courses tradition of selecting a majority of talks from the submitted abstracts.

We ended the chat talking about the annexin community: 

Thank you to the organizers for choosing Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as the venue for Annexins 2017!

For more conversations with other meeting organizers, check out our A Word From... series.