Milestone meetings

Milestone meetings

Milestone meetings, Published online: 19 December 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07781-4

Scientific conferences are usually staid affairs. Presenters share their latest findings to polite, short-lived applause. But a talk can leave a lasting mark — a new disease treatment, a challenge to accepted paradigms, or the dawn of a new field. Nature spoke to four scientists about conference presentations that changed their careers.

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