Take Home messages from Alain Michel's experience, ending the tribute to Alain at the WAS special session in Singapore Dec 1st 2022

Thanks to all who contributed, remotely or on site in Singapore. We had a great debate on disease management in aquaculture, such an important topic! This was a disruptive request to the WAS organizing Committee, appyling one of the learnings from Alain. Thanks to them allowing it and giving us 90 minutes. We did it! Representative of the 5 continents were present and shared/debated on their experience. Thanks again. For sure I will do my best to renew such a constructive experience in 2023.

Here are my summary of Alain's messages and learning to take back home and keep in mind:

• Be modest,
• Be curious, including on the field: don’t stay in your lab or in front of your screens, even if, remotely, thanks to new technologies, one can keep observing and learning a lot (Alain kept working until his last moments thanks to internet connections with more than 10 projects in early 2022),
• Test several hypothesis,
• Challenge yourself and your team
• Don’t be afraid of mistakes & learn from them,
• Share & exchange informations & observations!
• Team spirit is a must,
• Don’t be afraid of being disruptive!

Merci Alain