IMSC 2009

Visiting the International Mass Spectrometry Conference meant long days. The first seminar started already 8 in the morning, and followed by a poster session. You needed to study the list of poster titles in advance, since it's impossible to look at all the 400 posters, which were changed to new ones in the middle of the week.
Then 10am-12pm were seminar session with five different seminars in parallel. All again make a choice which ones will be the most interesting, not too easy. People were constant on the move between the lecture halls.
During the lunch breaks Maria went for another seminar hold by some of the sponsor companies. The motivation to go there, except hearing about the newest instrument on the market, was that the listeners got a lunch bag (sandwiches, water, fruit = free lunch).
The afternoon followed with another 5-parallel-seminar session (2-4 pm) and another poster session.