Concluding remarks

Abstract

There are clearly a substantial number of people who work on low temperature. Some of you might want to put a label on your collar to say that you are a taxonomically based lowtemperature biologist: a botanist, zoologist or microbiologist. Or some of you may describe yourself by the level of organization at which you work: a structural biologist, biochemist, physiologist, or ecologist. But all of you have one common interest; that is low temperature. One success of this meeting therefore, has been to bring together people who ordinarily might not otherwise have met. It is clear that many of us do not know what each other does, because from a literature search on some of the speakers and their papers, it was apparent that we do not cross–cite each other very much. In other words, entomologists do not really know what botanists are doing, who do not really know what bacteriologists are doing and so on. So, a second success of this meeting is that we have actually come together and, at least by knowing each other's names, we might become more familiar in future with each other's work. By that approach, I am sure that we will start to see some analogies and common ground across our different experimental systems. That objective was one of the main bene. ts that Dai Rees, Peter Lillford, Ian Shanks and Diana Bowles wanted to emerge from this meeting, so on your behalf, I will also pass our thanks to them for their advice and support.