Welcome to the 1^st International Electronic Conference on Toxins

Dear scientists, researchers, and authors,

It is my unique pleasure to invite you to join the 1^st International Electronic Conference on Toxins (IECT2021). This meeting will be hosted online by https://sciforum.net/conference/IECT2021 from 16 to 31 January, 2021.

For millennia, toxins have played an integral role in many aspects of human endeavors by impacting health and agriculture. In addition to detrimental roles, they have been incredibly useful in expanding our understanding of biology and they continue to serve as tools for drug leads and therapeutic interventions. The mission of this conference is to provide a platform for scientists working on toxins from all organisms to present the latest concepts under research on these toxins and for all to compare and contrast the actions of toxins. The potential uses of toxins for the benefit of science as well as for humankind will be key concepts up for discussion.

Topics are organized into six sessions:

• Novel plant, animal, insect and microbial toxins
  
• Mechanism of action and/or pathophysiology of toxins
• Use of toxins as tools for research, drug discovery, and therapeutics
• Impact of toxins on public health
• Impact of toxins on agriculture
• Evolution of toxins

The meeting will be organized so that scientists can share their most recent findings with colleagues worldwide in question and answer sessions as well as in discussion groups that will occur online. We hope this will be an engaging format.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee and, if accepted, the author is optional to submit a proceeding paper or a poster, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of their work. The 1^st International Electronic Conference on Toxins is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651; Impact Factor: 3.531). The conference proceedings papers, posters and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IECT2020 for discussion during the time of the conference 16 -31 January 2021 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.

IECT2021 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference by presenting your latest work. There is no registration fee. Abstracts (in English) should be submitted online before 6 November 2020 at https://www.sciforum.net/login.

Paper Submission Guidelines

For information on the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section “Instructions for Authors”: https://www.sciforum.net/conference/IECT2021/instructions.

Although the current pandemic has moved us to these rather novel formats to disseminate data and engage with colleagues worldwide, I think this provides us with an outstanding and unique opportunity to interact with researchers in fields we may not have otherwise and, as such, enrich ourselves and our science using this meeting format.

It is my wish that you will join me in participating in this unique event and play an active part in this online conference.

Sincerely,

Professor Jay W. Fox,

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Conference Secretariat

Ms. Gris Guo

Ms. Bonnie Yang

Ms. Georgia Liu

Ms. Lindy Ren

E-Mail: iect2021@mdpi.com