Dear Kareem, Thank you very much for your detailed and insightful response, it is much appreciated. 1. Sounds great regarding the large range of stages at which contributions are welcomed and the unlikelihood of negative consequences including for early projects. Good points about the possibility of getting feedback and perhaps even finding potential collaborators, both would indeed be very much welcomed. 2. Understood regarding the conference being in-person only, good point about attendance considerations and logistic challenges. We will try to find the funds, submit ~2 abstracts, and send ~2 people from Ottawa. Thanks again and best regards, Hubert ________________________________ From: Kareem Elsayad <kareem.elsayad@meduniwien.ac.at> Sent: Friday, September 5, 2025 8:16 PM To: Hubert Jean-Ruel <HubertJeanRuel@CUNET.CARLETON.CA> Cc: SOC25@BioBrillouin.org <SOC25@BioBrillouin.org> Subject: Re: [EXTERN] [Soc25] Questions regarding the BioBrillouin conference [External Email] Dear Hubert, Thanks for your email! In response to your questions.. 1. It’s variable, can be something you just discovered/observed and want feedback on, something ready for publication, or even something you did some time ago and think community might be interested in/not aware of. No criteria in this regard 😊. It will not impede publication but quite the contrary. You will get feedback from (probably) the very people who will review it. Only reason for not presenting might be (a) it is something you want to patent first (b) it is very novel and only half thought through and you are worried someone will steel your idea. The latter should be less of an issue. The community is very nice (as you know) and announcing “I’m doing this” will most probably result in a lower chance of someone scooping you than someone developing by serendipity and being then annoyed you stole their idea (if they present it here first they will be on record as first person to come up with). You might also get good feedback or collaboration partners.. So I wouldn’t hesitate unless (a) applies to you. 2. It is foreseen to be in-person only. Beside the logistics of doing online also being quite great requiring extra manpower/costs, it will also limit attendance, and then there is the issue of registration fees (should they be the same). We hope to avoid this logistic headache 😊 Hope very much you (and your students) can make it. It should be fun and hopefully useful to all! All the best, Kareem From: Hubert Jean-Ruel via Soc25 <soc25@biobrillouin.org> Reply to: Hubert Jean-Ruel <HubertJeanRuel@CUNET.CARLETON.CA> Date: Friday, 5. September 2025 at 18:01 To: "SOC25@BioBrillouin.org" <SOC25@BioBrillouin.org> Subject: [EXTERN] [Soc25] Questions regarding the BioBrillouin conference Dear committee, Thank you for organizing this conference. I had the chance to attend in a previous year when I was working at LightMachinery, before I joined Carleton University, and very much enjoyed it. We are considering submitting a few abstracts and hopefully having one or more of us coming to the conference. Can I please ask you two (likely naive) questions: 1. Contributions to your conference are typically associated with what stage of research: a preliminary stage (proposing a new concept along with simulations or preliminary experimental results) or a more mature stage (results that are essentially ready to be submitted or that have been submitted to a journal)? If we do present a preliminary concept and results, could this impede our ability to submit to a journal later on? 2. Is the conference only in-person or is an online presentation conceivable (assuming one of our abstracts is accepted and attributed a presentation)? I hope to attend but budgets are tight. [If in-person is the only option we will limit ourself to submitting an abstract associated with the student who will likely come.] Thank you very much, Hubert ----------------------- Hubert Jean-Ruel, PhD Assistant Professor, Advanced Photonic Components Laboratory Canada Research Chair in Advanced Photonic Sensing Components and Systems Department of Electronics Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada _______________________________________________ Soc25 mailing list -- soc25@biobrillouin.org To unsubscribe send an email to soc25-leave@biobrillouin.org