title: Building Bridges through Scientific Conferences.
abstract: Getting together to exchange ideas, forge collaborations, and disseminate knowledge is a long-standing tradition of scientific communities. How conferences are serving the community, what their current challenges are, and what is in store for the future of conferences are the topics covered in this Commentary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Section of Integrative Physiology, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: juleen.zierath@ki.se.
authors.forename: Juleen R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Zierath
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000639:trends; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D012586:Science / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D060756:Social Networking; D000078329:Workforce