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Following up on ISBER 2015: Call for Environmental Biobanking Papers.

For those of you who missed the ISBER annual meeting in Phoenix in May, it was a record-setter with 772 attendees and 92 exhibit booths, as well as 201 abstract submissions. The variety of topics covered was impressive. Program Committee co-chairs Zisis Kozlakidis and Piper Mullins and their committee members did an excellent job of attracting a diverse set of presentations and posters which demonstrated the scope of ISBER’s reach in the scientific collections arena. Although many of the presentations and posters concerned human biospecimen banking and biospecimen research topics, the program included an impressive array of presentations with environmental and other non-human biobanking topics, such as: