On October 6th, 2006 a group of experts on fish disease, diagnosis and treatment assembled in London to share recent advances in the field. Fish disease significantly impacts environmental balance and commercial productivity on a global basis. Losses have high economic consequences, especially in areas where fishing or aquatic culture are important community-supporting industries. Dr. David Graham from the Fish Disease Unit of the Agri-food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast acted as chair of the proceedings and opened the day with a talk entitled: ‘Detection of virus-neutralizing antibodies and viremia: Complementary tools for diagnosis of salmonid alphavirus (SAV) infections.   more »

EuroSciCon’s focus on the latest advances in proteomics technology was at the forefront of this informative meeting, chaired by Dr Robin Wait (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London, UK). The day began with a talk by Professor David O’Connor (Centre for Proteomic Research, Southampton, UK), which focussed on some of the new methods that are being developed in order to capture a larger portion of the expressed proteome. In particular, Professor O’Connor described the use of NanoMate technology in order to extend our limits of detection for the identification of lower abundant species. We learned that    more »