Immunology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: Inducing and Breaking Tolerogenic Antigen-Presenting Cell Function

Thursday, 5 July 2012 London, United Kingdom

The Deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentation is May 30th 2012

Professional antigen-presenting cells (APC) such as dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages play a critical role in the initiation and maintenance of a T cell-mediated immune response. APC are essential for T cell priming, differentiation and activation in lymphoid tissue and at sites of inflammation. Understanding the molecular mechanisms via which APC function can be controlled may give novel insights into how T cell mediated immunity may be induced or blocked. This meeting will highlight current research aimed at inducing APC with tolerogenic function in order to treat inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis) as well as work aimed at boosting the immunostimulatory function of APC in the context of cancer. The meeting will also highlight recent progress on the suppressive effects of CD4+ regulatory T cells on APC function, and how these can be overcome.

This event has CPD accreditation and will have a discussion panel session.

On registration you will be able to submit your questions to the panel that will be asked by the chair on the day of the event

Meeting chairs: Dr Leonie Taams, Senior Lecturer in Immunology, King's College London Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation and Dr Catharien Hilkens, Reader in Immunotherapy, Newcastle University , UK

Email: enquiries@euroscicon.com

Web: www.euroscicon.com

For all accommodation and travel enquiries please contact accommodationandtravel@euroscicon.com

Call for Abstracts: 3rd Annual International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology (BioTech 2013)

18 - 19 March 2013 Singapore

Paper Submission (Full Paper) Deadline 28 September 2012

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures for modifying living organisms according to human purposes - going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and "improvements" to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to provide a challenging forum and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Pharmaceutical / Medicine

• Structural Biology
• Proteomics
• Cell Cycle and Oncology
• Medical Microbiology
• Diagnostic Pathology
• Clinical Chemistry
• Haematology
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Medical Imaging and Methods
• Sonography
• Molecular and Cell Biology
• Biochemistry
• Immunology
• Genetics
• Neurobiology
• Drug production
• Pharmacogenomics
• Gene therapy
• Factors for transcribing DNA into RNA
• Monoclonol antibodies
• Pathogenesis of Human Diseases
• Presymptomatic testing

Food and Agriculture

• Genetic engineering
• Genomics
• Tissue culture
• Cell fusion
• Molecular biology
• Enzymology
• Fermentation processes
• Instrumentation and diagnostic methods
• Food processing
• Biofertilizer
• Waste Technology
• Environment Control
• Pest and diseases resistant crop
• High value addictives and chemical products
• Immunological techniques
• Signal transduction
• Conjugation
• Classical mutagenesis
• Conjugation process
• Hybridisation

Best Paper Award

A number of best papers will be selected and given awards at the conference. These papers will also be considered for publication in GSTF and other international refereed Journals.

In order to qualify for the award, at least one of the authors will need to present at the conference.

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT 

Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF)
10 Anson Road, International Plaza,
Singapore 079903
DID : +65 6327 0166
Fax : +65 6327 0162 

For Conference Information info@advbiotech.org 
For Registration, Accommodation or Visa Assistance secretariat@advbiotech.org  

Call for Abstracts: Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference 2012

Saturday December 1 2012 - Wednesday December 5 2012 Xcaret, Mexico

The purpose of the Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine is to bring together eminent scholars with expertise in various fields of mathematical and computational medicine, as well as experimentalists and medical doctors interested in application of computational methods in clinical studies. The mathematical and computational medicine is now one of the most important and rapidly growing fields of modern medicine, and will become even more important in nearest future, when the cost of individual human gene sequencing becomes affordable for mass-scale clinical use (The $1000 Human Genome). New sequencing techniques, such as RNA-Seq produce enormous amount of information on the transcriptome in healthy and diseased cells, that need a development of new mathematical and computational methods to extract the most important medical information. The scope of the proposed Zing Conference will cover many different fields mathematical and computational medicine and biomedical informatics, such as genetics, genomics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various diseases including mental and learning disorders, autism, and somatic diseases, with a special emphasis on cancer, protein misfolding disorders related to amyloid formation in neurogenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease), gene regulation, biomarker development, computer aided drug development, computational pharmacodynamics, computational immunology, systems biology and its extension to systems medicine, machine learning methods in application to biomedical data, applicability of computational methods in personalized medicine, and regenerative medicine. A special session will be devoted to errors in measurements of biomedical data and statistical evidence-based medicine.

Talk abstract deadline: Saturday June 30 2012
Poster abstract deadline: Monday October 1 2012

For general queries about conference attendance, registration, payment, accommodation, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').

For queries about scientific content, presentations, posters, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').

Call for Abstracts: Controversies in Rheumatology & Autoimmunity

April 4-6, 2013 Budapest, Hungary

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 14, 2012

CORA 2013 unites experts in the fields of rheumatology, allergology and immunology. Join top speakers as they discuss controversial aspects in pathogenesis, clinical features, outcomes and the treatment of rheumatic and autoimmune diseases.

Congress Secretariat

Kenes International
1-3, Rue de Chantepoulet
P.O. Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 906 9140
E-mail: cora@kenes.com

Call for Abstracts: Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2012 Congress

5 – 8 December 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2012

Scientists and researchers are invited to submit their abstracts to the Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2012 Congress to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. Accepted abstracts will be selected for Oral or Poster Presentations and will be published in the Journal for Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

ABSTRACT TOPICS
Abstracts will be classified under specific categories for review and program purposes. Presenters are requested to select the topic under which their abstracts belong:

1. Absorption/Secretion

2. Bacteriology/Virology

3. Biliary Tract

4. Cellular/Molecular Biology

5. Endoscopy Surgery

6. Epidemiology

7. Gut Hormones

8. Immunology

9. Inflammation

10. Large Intestine

11. Liver

12. Motility

13. New Technologies

14. Nutrition/Metabolism

15. Oesophagus

16. Oncology

17. Pancreas

18. Psychosomatic GI Diseases

19. Small Intestine

20. Stomach

All abstracts must be submitted the conference website only: www.apdw2012.org

NOTE: Abstracts submitted by email, fax or post will NOT be accepted.

Abstracts that have been presented in previous conferences will NOT be accepted.

For more information, visit www.apdw2012.org or contact the Conference Secretariat:

KENES ASIA (THAILAND) CO., LTD.
PICO Building, 10 Soi Lasalle 56, Sukhumwit, Bangna, Bangkok 10260 THAILAND
Tel: + 66 2 748 7881 ext 111 & 101
Fax: +66 2 748 7880
Email: secretariat@apdw2012.org