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Key Dates

    Call for Abstracts Close6 Setember 2019
  • Abstract Notifications 26 September 2019
    3 October 2019
  • Early-Bird/Presenter Registration Close 11 October 2019
  • Standard Registration Open 12 October 2019
  • Extended Poster Abstracts Deadline 31 October 2019
  • Workshops 8 December 2019
  • ASI 2019 8 – 12 December 2019
48th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology 8 – 12 December 2019
Adelaide Convention Centre

Integrating English Training into Biological Sciences Programs

The biological sciences are the subject of international research. More than 5,000 publications publish material on natural and medical sciences, and more than 1.2 million articles were published in 2017, according to the PubMed database. Impact factors are higher for publications written in English than for those not, and non-English articles are read and referenced less frequently. Successful biologists must present their findings in English to a worldwide audience for their work to be widely recognized and referenced. Numerous academics worldwide write and discuss articles on topics like parasitology, immunology, microbiology, or neuroscience, and PhD candidates are required to keep up with the latest scientific developments by reading high-impact journals. This holds for scientific lectures, posters, and published papers; as a result, NNES academic institutions must prioritize scientific English to prepare their students for prosperous careers.

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Graduate students nations frequently face English as a significant obstacle in pursuing a global career. Conventional learning processes at home institutions do not sufficiently prioritize scientific English as the medium for regular discussions of laboratory-generated data. This is based on our experiences as NNES postdoctoral fellows at a US institution or as a US mentor of these trainees. Promoting the use of the English language as a deliberate aspect of PhD training is primarily the responsibility of principal investigators, mentors, and supervisors. Graduates will be prepared to seek international academic careers if these stakeholders regularly incorporate English training and instruction inside the research laboratory program.

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