Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to ISMB in Toronto. I haven’t attended the big show before, other than a 1 day SIG 3 years ago in Detroit, so I’m sure it will be enlightening, perhaps for the science, but also for the sheer surreality of packing thousands of normally bunkered down and repressed scientists into a small and contrived space.
I hope I can smuggle my poster tube onto the airplane without them noticing that I also have a carry-on and personal item already. But kind of hard to hide something that’s almost 4 feet long… speaking of transporting posters, how cool would it be to have electronic poster boards at conferences? No more poster tubes, little sheets of paper, curled edges, or push pins – just upload your file before you get on the plane, bring a thumb drive just in case, and you’re good to go. Sure, they’d be expensive, delicate, heavy, and perhaps prone to glitches, but nothing a few years of tech investment can’t fix.
Shirley,
Love the poster and, even more, the notion of not carrying poster tubes through the Airport.
Looking forward to meeting you next week.
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