Meetings Diary

2008


May 2008

Academy of Pharmaceutical Scientists of Great Britain Meeting held jointly with the Food and Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in partnership with the Nutrition Society
Biologically-active compounds in foods and drinks
 
1 May 2008
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Headquarters, London
For more information please visit: http://www.rpsgb.org/worldofpharmacy/events/

7th International Workshop on Sulfur Metabolism in Plants
13 - 17 May 2008
Warsaw, Poland
http://7sw.ibb.waw.pl/


"Harmonisation of the Care and Use of Animals in Field Research"
21st - 22nd May
Oslo Airport, Norway
www.norecopa.no

Macrophysiology Meeting
26th - 29th of May 2008
Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, UK
http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/science/macrophysiology/default.htm

June 2008

Analytical tools for the life sciences: Biological Membranes
2 June 2008
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Attendance to the workshops is free of charge, but all participants are asked to register in advance.
Website
Queries:  (huebnery@rsc.org)

Association of Applied Biologists
Shaping a Vision for the Uplands
To be held at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
2-4 June 2008
Website: www.aab.org.uk

Title: Signalling to Chromatin
Summary: The aim of this meeting is to foster understanding and exploration of the link between signalling pathways and chromatin remodelling.  It will illuminate the known mechanistic links between key signalling cascades and chromatin remodelling machinery and expose important questions in this field.
Date: 4 – 8 June 2008
Location: Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1RQ
Web link: http://www.wtconference.org/
Contact: Pam Garland, P.garland@wtconference.org.uk

Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria
15th-18th June 2008

Wellcome Trust Conference Center, Hinxton Cambridge, UK
Website:  http://www.wtconference.org/
Contact: j.beard@wtconference.org.uk

Irish Section Meeting The challenges of translating nutrition research to public health nutrition.
18-20 June 2008
UniversityCollege Dublin
For more information please visit: http://www.nutritionsociety.org/index.php?q=node/32
Original Communication submission deadline: 14 April 2008

4th EPSO Conference - Plants for Life
European Plant science Organisation's biannual conference
22-26 June 2008
Toulon (Côte d'Azur), France
www.epsoweb.org/catalog/conf2008.htm

Plant Biology 2008
American Society of Plant Biologist's Annual Meeting
June 26 - July 2, 2008
Yucatan Convention Center, Mérida Mexico
Please see http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2008.   

The Pan American Congress on Plant and BioEnergy 2008
June 22- 25 2008
Fiesta Americana Hotel, Merida, Mexico
Please see http://www.aspb.org/meetings/BioEnergy08.

Microscience 2008
International Conference and Exhibition
23 - 26 June 2008
ExCeL London
http://www.microscience2008.org.uk

20th New Phytologist Symposium
Arsenic: unravelling its metabolism and speciation in plants

26-27 June 2008
Copthorne Hotel, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
http://www.newphytologist.org/arsenic/default.htm

33rd FEBS Congress & 11th IUBMB Conference” Biochemistry of Cell Regulation
28 June - 3 July 2008
Athens, Greece
http://www.febs-iubmb-2008.org.

Nutrition Society Annual Summer Meeting.Multidisciplinary approaches to nutritional problems
30 June - 3 July 2008
University of Nottingham 
For more information please visit: http://www.nutritionsociety.org/index.php?q=node/55
Original Communication submission deadline: 13 March 2008

Biochemical Society Focused Meeting - Metal Metabolism: transport, development and neurodegeneration
June/July 2008
http://www.biochemistry.org/meetings/programme.cfm?Meeting_No=SA078

July 2008

SEBatMarseille2008 (Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting)
6 - 11 July
Parc Chanot, Marseille, France
http://www.sebiology.org/meetings
enquiries: k.steel@sebiology.org

International Congress of Entomology
Durban,  South Africa
6 - 12 July 2008
http://www.ice2008.org.za/

Society for Free Radical Research Plant Oxygen Group
Plant ROS 2009
In Helsinki Finland
On July 8-10, 2009

Information can be found at:
http://pog2009.org/

Biochemical Society Meeting
Metal metabolism: transport, development and neurodegeneration

Imperial College London
9 - 10 July 2008
http://www.biochemistry.org/meetings/programme.cfm?Meeting_No=SA078

Physiology2008
14 - 16 July 2008
Cambridge, UK
http://www.physiology2008.org/

FBA Annual Scientific Meeting
Science in Industry : The Application of Freshwater Science in Practice
15th - 16th July 2008
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers,
London, UK.
Enquiries: cripley@fba.org.uk
http:// www.fba.org.uk//index/events/asm2008.html
Expressions of interest welcomed.
Abstract deadline 1st May 2008.

4th ICCPB
19 - 25 July 2008 
Africa, Maasai Mara Reserve, Kenya
http://www.natural-events.com/mara

The 22nd Symposium of the Protein Society
20 - 22 July 2008
The Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California
www.proteinsociety.org/symposium22nd

18th International Plant Lipid Symposium
Bordeaux, France
http://www.ispl2008-bordeaux.cnrs.fr

19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research
23 - 27 July 2008
Hyatt Regency, Montreal, Canada
http://www.plantconferences.org/Arabidopsis2008/

August 2008

13th International Hibernation Symposium
3 - 9 August 2008
Mokuti Lodge, Etosha, Namibia

CO2 Assimilation in Plants: Genome to Biome
August 17-22, 2008
University of New England
Biddeford, Maine
www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2008/co2.htm
Enquiries: Mike Salvucci (msalvucci@wcrl.ars.usda.gov) and Anne Borland (A.M.Borland@newcastle.ac.uk )

FESPB 2008
17 - 22 August 2008
Tampere, Finland
www.fespb.org

Title: Wellcome Trust School of Human Genomics
Summary: This is an opportunity for current scientific leaders to interact with future stars in the field and for students to learn and be inspired by those that have shaped human genomics in the last decade.
Date: 17 – 22 August 2008  
Location: Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1RQ
Web link: http://www.wtconference.org/
Contact: Pam Garland, P.garland@wtconference.org.uk

September 2008

Climate Change and Systematics Conference
1 - 3 September 2008, 
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/Conference.php

SEB Plant Transport Group (PTG) meeting 2008
Manchester, UK
3-5 September 2008
http://www.sebiology.org/meetings
enquiries: jon.pittman@manchester.ac.uk

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2008
3 - 5 September 2008
London, UK
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/meetings/current/2008an
nualmeeting/

25th ESCPB Congress
European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
7 - 11 September 2008
Ravenna, Italy
http://ESCPNnew.ambra.unibo.it

SEB Plant Symposium/GARNet2008
8 - 10 September 2008
Nottingham University, UK
http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Notts08/Plant.html
Contact: Ruth Bastow (ruth@arabidopsis.info) or Kate Steel (k.steel@sebiology.org)

Society for General Microbiology 163rd Meeting
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
8 – 11 September 2008
Plenary: Behaviour of biofilm bacteria: from cooperation and communication to control
Contact: Mrs Josiane Dunn, Meetings Administrator, SGM, Marlborough House, Basingstoke Road, Spencers Wood, Reading RG7 1AG, UK – Tel: +44 118 988 1805 / Fax: +44 118 988 5656
Email: meetings@sgm.ac.uk - Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings/

Press contact: Tel: +44 118 988 1843 / Email: pa@sgm.ac.uk

Metabolism & Endocrinology Themed Meeting With a Focused symposium on: "Orchestration of metabolism in health and disease"
University of Oxford, UK
9-11 September 2008
Organised by: D Burdakov (University of Cambridge)
website: www.physoc.org/meetings

Resource Capture by Crops: Integerated Approaches
University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington
10- 12 September 2008
Website: www.aab.org.uk

Latest advances in ion channel techniques applied to physiological problems
Shanghai Institute for Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China
12-16 September 2008
Organised by: Brian Robertson, Tian-Le Xu, Weifang Rong
Website: http://www.physoc.org/international/Shanghai2008/

3rd International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
University of Birmingham
15 - 16 September 2008
Enquiries: Emma Smith (e.l.smith@bham.ac.uk)
Website (http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/nanonet/conference/ )

19th New Phytologist Symposium
Physiological Sculpture of Plants: new visions and capabilities for crop breeding
17-20 September 2008 Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA
http://www.newphytologist.org/physiological/default.htm

2008 APS Intersociety Meeting:  The Integrative Biology of Exercise-V
September 24-27, 2008
Hilton Head, South Carolina (USA)
www.the-aps.org/hiltonhead
Inquiries: meetings@the-aps.org

 

October 2008

The 9th International Congress on Cell Biology (ICCB)
7 – 10 October 2008
COEX Seoul, Korea
Challenge of Life Sciences: Molecules and Cells

Plant biomass and energy: Future and reality
9 - 11 October 2008
Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, Baeza
http://www.unia.es/EnvironmentWorkShops

Joint International Meeting of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences, The Canadian Physiological Society, The Australian Physiological Society, the American Physiological Society and The Physiological Society
Beijing, China
19-22 October 2008
Meeting web site at http://www.beijingphys2008.org/

November 2008

4-5 November 2008 Annual BAPEN Conference including clinical nutrition and metabolism symposium organised by the Nutrition Society Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate
More information available on the BAPEN website www.bapen.org.uk 

Applied Aspects of Aerobiology.
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts.
19 November 2008
Website: www.aab.org.uk

Pollution from Pesticides - Point Source versus Diffuse
HarperAdams University College, Newport, UK
25 November 2008
Website: www.aab.org.uk

December 2008

Residue Reduction through Biocontrol.
3 December 2008
Peterborough, UK 
Website: www.aab.org.uk

Effects of Climate Change on Plants: Implications for Agriculture.
12-13 November 2008
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
Website: www.aab.org.uk

Annual Symposium
DNA damage: from causes to cures
Robinson College, Cambridge, UK
15 - 17 December 2008

Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology Themed Meeting With a Focused symposium
on: "Vascular responses to mechanical stress: cellular cross-talk and integration"

Guy's Hospital Campus, King's College London, UK
15-17 December 2008
Organised by: MD Brown (University of Birmingham) and RCM Siow (King's College London)
Website: http://www.physoc.org/meetings

2009

March 2009

Society for General Microbiology Spring 2009 Meeting
Harrogate International Centre, UK
30 March – 2 April 2009
Contact: Mrs Josiane Dunn, Meetings Administrator, SGM, Marlborough House, Basingstoke Road, Spencers Wood, Reading RG7 1AG, UK
– Tel: +44 118 988 1805 / Fax: +44 118 988 5656 /
Email: meetings@sgm.ac.uk - Website: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings/

Press contact: Tel: +44 118 988 1843 / Email: pa@sgm.ac.uk


June 2009

SEBatGlasgow2009 (SEB Annual Main Meeting 2009)
28 June - 1 July 2009
SECC, Glasgow, UK
http://www.sebiology.org/meetings
Enquiries: Kate Steel (k.steel@sebiology.org)

July 2009

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
Honolulu, Hawaii
www.aspb.org

The Physiological Society Main Meeting 2009
University College Dublin, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Republic of Ireland
6-10 July 2009
Call for symposia applications for Physiology 2009 (Dublin) Click here to make a submission

3rd International Symposium on Physiology and Pharmacology of Temperature Regulation 2009 (PPTR2009President: Dr. Osamu Shido and Tatsuo Watanabe)
July 23-26, 2009
Matsue, Japan.
http://www.med.shimane-u.ac.jp/pptr2009/invitation.html 

IUPS 2009: 36th International Congress of Physiological Sciences
Organised by the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS)
27 July - 1 August 2009
Kyoto, Japan. 
http://www.iups2009.com

September 2009

Joint International Meeting of The Physiological Society and the Society of General Physiologists
"Basic Biology and Disease of Muscle"

Marine Biology Laboratory, Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, USA
September 2009
Chairs: H Lee Sweeney (Philadelphia, USA) and David A Eisner (Manchester, UK)
Website: http://www.physoc.org/meetings


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