Biology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Poster Abstracts: The Microbiome in Health, Disease, and Therapeutics: Bugs, Guts and Drugs

Friday, October 4, 2013 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM The New York Academy of Sciences New York, New York

Presented by the Biochemical Pharmacology Discussion Group

The host of microorganisms inhabiting the human body, or microbiome, plays essential roles in both health and the pathogenesis and resolution of disease. Symbioses between humans and the microbiome influence broad aspects of human biology including nutrition, immune function, and even brain development. Altered microbial community profiles are associated with a variety of chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, allergic conditions, obesity, and psychiatric and neurological disorders. The microbiome influences therapeutic interventions: metabolism of drugs by both intestinal bacteria and enterocytes, leading to systemic absorption may provide valuable insights into pre-systemic drug metabolism, delivery, and toxicity. A better understanding of the metabolic pathways may aid in drug development and toxicity evaluation processes. The microbiome itself may be a target of, or tool for new therapeutic strategies for diseases as diverse as irritable bowel syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease. This symposium reviews the basic biology of the human microbiome symbiosis and its systemic effects, the impact of the gut microbiome on drug metabolism, the opportunities offered by the microbiome for new drug development, and the essential role played by the microbiome in a variety of disease states.

The deadline for poster abstract submission is Friday, August 23, 2013. Select poster abstracts will be chosen for short oral presentations. For complete abstract submission instructions, please send an email to microbiome2013@nyas.org with "Abstract Information" in the subject line. There is no need to type a message; instructions will be forwarded automatically. Please call 212.298.8620 with any questions.

Call for Abstracts: 1st Annual 2013 Conference on International Translational Nanomedicine

July 26 – 28, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

Abstracts will be accepted until June 1st, 2013.

The abstract submission system for the 1st Annual 2013 Conference on International Translational Nanomedicine (ITNano) at Northeastern University, Boston, MA is now open. The conference will be in July 26 – 28, 2013.

Papers can be submitted in the following categories of nanomedicine research:

Bioimaging & Drug Delivery

Biosensing & Biophotonics

Biophysics

Modeling

Instrumentation

Regenerative Medicine

Rehabilitative Engineering

Tissue Engineering

Biomaterials

Biomechanics & Mechanobiology

Biofuels & Bioenergy

Molecular Cell Engineering

Synthetic Biology

Quantitative Systems Biology

Stem Cells

Bioengineering Education

Education

Start-up Companies

Any research area of interest at the intersection of nanotechnology and medicine.

The conference will be held on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA. The conference will include plenary speakers, oral and poster presentations, and numerous activities specifically for undergraduate and graduate students. As the focus of the conference is to highlight translational nanomedicine research, we will also focus on highlighting start-up companies and well-established companies in the nanomedicine sectors.

The conference organizer is Prof. Tom Webster, Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University

Call for Abstracts: 11th International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg, Germany Sunday 8 September - Wednesday 11 September 2013

Abstract deadline: Saturday 1 June 2013

The International Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR) meetings are held every three years with the aim of presenting and discussing state of the art applications in relevant research fields.They have a long-standing record since the first meeting in Frascati, Italy in 1986. Subsequent meetings were held at sites at or near the most advanced light souce facilities around the world, with the last BSR meeting taking place in Melbourne, Australia, in 2010.

Aims

The principal objective of the proposed meeting and series will be to provide a forum bringing together the scientists involved in the methodical developments on synchrotron and laser sources with a broad community of biologists having an ambition to make the best use of the most advanced infrastructures in structural biology. 

Topics

Biological small angle X-ray scattering
Macromolecular X-ray crystallography
Biological X-ray imaging and spectroscopy
Biological sample preparation
Free electron laser applications
Synchrotron instrumentation
Structural biology hybrid methods
Industrial applications
Ultimate storage rings

X-rays belong to the most powerful physical instruments in life sciences allowing to elucidate the structure of biological objects at atomic, molecular and cellular level. We would like to use this conference as an opportunity to substantially expand the scientific scope of the conference from a predominantly technically one to a more biologically oriented one. This will allow one to tackle new challenges in structural biology, which will further extend into even larger structures from multi-component macromolecular complexes, performing most important cellular functions. 

Who should attend
The BSR conference is unique in scope by being the only event specifically bringing together a broad life science-oriented research community and a more technically synchrotron/laser scientists’ community worldwide.

Scientists at all possible career levels are invited to this meeting - ranging from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and principal investigators from both academia and industry. There will be ample opportunities for individual presentations.