Fondazione Edmund Mach in Trento, Italy
VectorBiTE 2019 just finished at Fondazione Edmund Mach in Trento, Italy! Just like last year, the meeting was split into two parts; training and then a general working group meeting. The first three days were the training session where graduate students and postdocs came to advance their data management and statistical skill set. The last two and half days were set aside for working groups to meet and continue making progress on their research projects.
The training session started off with general linear and non-linear models and moved on to time series and eventually fitting Bayesian models. The trainees worked extremely hard during the first two days to learn a bunch of new skills and then on the third day they applied what they had learned to a group project on either their own data sets and data from Vectorbyte’s VecDyn or VecTraits database. The training material can be found here.
Tuesday night, the training participants and the board members were treated to an amazing dinner on one of the mountain near Fondazione Edmund Mach.
On Thursday morning, all the VectorBiTE 2019 participants met up and the training participants shared what they had been working on. The working group leaders then gave a brief overview of what each working group has been doing and what they hope to accomplish at the meeting. Trainees were able to join working groups and apply their new skill sets to help the working groups. Check out the working group one page summaries to find out about what each group accomplished in this year’s meeting!
Presentation from E-STAR
During the working group portion of the meeting, we also got a video presentation from E-STAR, on mosquito prevention in Italy. The group showed us one of their videos that they use in their elementary school outreach events. The video focused on Ms. Mosquito and an elementary school child learning about how to prevent Ms. Mosquito from permanently moving to Trento, Italy. The video shared mosquito prevention methods that students can use and teach their parents.
This year’s meeting was at a stunning location filled with great scientific discussions. We are looking forward to seeing the outcomes of each working group from this year’s meeting!
Group photo from VectorBiTE 2019! Thanks Marta for taking the photo.