The Australian Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) annual scientific conference has been forced to quickly transition to a fully virtual event as a result of Victoria’s growing COVID outbreak and the snap lockdown.
ASM 2021 was originally planned as a hybrid event from May 31 to June 3 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
But the Victorian Government’s sudden statewide lockdown forced the ASM 2021 Conference to move to a fully virtual event within a matter of days.
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Read MoreIn February this year, five scientific conferences known collectively as “The Lorne Meetings” were again held in Lorne at the Cumberland Lorne Resort.
With Australia battling a devastating bushfire season of 2020, meeting organiser ASN Events introduced a fundraising initiative whereby each of the five Lorne conferences, the venue and ASN Events would match a dollar for every delegate to be donated to the local Lorne CFA.
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