http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 21:28:57 +0100 Main Page Blogware Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/28/3664913.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/28/3664913.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:57:35 +0100 A report from our Proteomics: advances in biomarker discovery meeting has been published in Expert Reviews in Proteomics. The citation is as follows: Meeting Reports therapy biomarkers PCR gene microarray proteomics Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/21/3651537.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/21/3651537.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:39 +0100 The aim of this EuroSciCon symposium, chaired by Dr. Catherine Derry (Science Communicator), was focussed on “Analysing the phenotype & function of regulatory T cells”. The meeting brought together experts in the field of Regulatory T (Treg) cells who discussed recent research towards a better understanding of the biology of Treg cells, their interaction with other immune effector cells, such as monocytes/macrophages, and possible interventions in human disease (e.g. acute Dengue infection, allergy and asthma, organ transplantation, tumour/cancer…). Meeting Reports Treg t rheumatoid regulatory phenotype cytokines cells CD4 CD25 arthritis Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/14/3664990.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/14/3664990.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:28:22 +0000 A report from our Maintaining stem cells and the regulation of their differentiation meeting has been published in The Biomedical Scientist. The citation is as follows Meeting Reports tissues stem differentiation culture Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/22/3538941.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/22/3538941.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:29 +0000 Proceedings books are now available for the following EuroSciCon meetings: 'Bacteriophages: Nature and Exploitation', 'Proteomics: advances in biomarker discovery' and 'Molecular Farming - plant biologicals'. Meeting Reports virulence vaccine proteomics proceedings phage pathogen molecular bacteriophage Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/6/3665014.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/6/3665014.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:49:54 +0000 A report from our 2007 Assaying Chemokines and Chemotaxis meeting has been published in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. Meeting Reports chemokines chemotaxis cytokines Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/28/3664995.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/28/3664995.html Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:38:58 +0000 A report from our Tissue Engineering meeting has been published in Regenerative Medicine. Meeting Reports tissue regenerative Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/4/3665000.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/4/3665000.html Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:42:14 +0000 A report from our 2007 Immunohistochemistry meeting has been published in Immunology News. The citation index is available here. Meeting Reports immunohistochemistry IHC Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/12/21/3422834.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/12/21/3422834.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:12:42 +0000 The challenges encountered by proteomic researchers seeking diagnostic, prognostic and mechanistic markers were the subject of the one-day meeting, Proteomics: advances in biomarker discovery hosted by EuroSciCon on 23rd November 2007 at BioPark in Herefordshire. Meeting Reports biomarkers proteomics Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/11/11/3347859.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/11/11/3347859.html Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:51:13 +0000 The intersection of biological space and chemical space forms the backdrop to the arena of drug discovery. Biological space can be thought of as the unabridged complement of gene products. Its boundary is defined by an organism’s genomic inventory and as such, although large, it is finite. By contrast the manifold variety of small molecular compounds means chemical space is essentially boundless. The meeting of these two spaces was the focus of a recent meeting hosted by EuroSciCon at BioPark Hertfordshire. Meeting Reports molecule target probe NMR HTS crystallography gene protein streptavidin ITC matrix DNA screening drug PCR Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/26/3314835.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/26/3314835.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:02:31 +0100 Toll-like receptors - Investigating innate immunity & infection meeting brought together experts in the relatively new field of toll-like receptors who gave right up to the moment talks with presentations of recently published work and work in publication. The Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are the main family of pattern recognition receptors which are employed by the innate immune system to recognise many pathogen-associated molecular patterns expressed by a wide spectrum of infectious agents. Meeting Reports innate toll like TLR Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/12/3286386.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/12/3286386.html Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:47:16 +0100 This EuroSciCon (www.euroscicon.com) meeting on Assaying Chemokines and Chemotaxis was held at the Biopark, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The aim of this meeting was to discuss the most recent advances in the growing field of chemokine research. The meeting was chaired by Dr James Pease (Imperial College, London, U.K.) who began the meeting by giving a brief history on the discovery of chemokines: including how chemokines were originally identified, the current nomenclature of chemokines and their corresponding receptors and the emerging role of chemokines in pro-inflammatory diseases. Meeting Reports chemotaxis chemokies Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/30/2985556.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/30/2985556.html Wed, 30 May 2007 19:21:04 +0100 EuroSciCon’s fifth meeting of 2007 focused on stem cells and more importantly innovative ways of maintaining them and regulating their differentiation. This meeting was chaired by Dr Stefan Przyborski (School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University) and brought together a range of scientists who worked on different stem cells and used different approaches to control cell growth and differentiation. The Chair gave the first talk of the day, entitled ‘Development of Enabling Technology to Control Cell Growth and Function In Vitro’ and elaborated on the development of technology to control stem cell growth and function in vitro. Meeting Reports stem Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/17/2955831.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/17/2955831.html Thu, 17 May 2007 13:21:28 +0100 This meeting brought together different groups of professionals, from the industry as well as academic and clinical practitioners in IHC to introduce, discuss and explore new technologies and to share experience in different areas of IHC. The Chairman of the day was Dr Tony Warford, Head of IHC, Astra-Zeneca Global R&R currently based in Shanghai, China. Dr Susan Wilson, head of the Histochemistry Research Unit for infection, inflammation and repair in Southampton General Hospital started the day by introducing Glycol Methracyclate (GMA). GMA is a new embedding system using acetone fixation and low temperatures. Meeting Reports IHC antibodies Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/16/2884788.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/16/2884788.html Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:02:40 +0100 The aim of this EuroSciCon meeting, chaired by Dr. Catherine Derry, was to provide evolving knowledge on the subject of T cell subsets in order to facilitate their characterisation. There is an increasing awareness of the diversity of T cell phenotype and function, and it is clear that they can no longer be identified exclusively by one or the other due to considerable overlap between the two. It is apparent that the outcome of immunological engagement by T cells can result in their complementary, opposing or synergistic effects and with this in mind, almost all of the speakers attempted to characterise T cells on the basis of both phenotype and function. Meeting Reports Th2 Th1 peptide lupus heterogeneity trogocytosis cytokine phenotype Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/2/23/2758572.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/2/23/2758572.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:42:39 +0000 The aim of this meeting, held by Euroscicon, was to check the state-of-the-art about the novel findings on the pathogenic mechanisms of human diseases and immunotherapy. The meeting’s chair Dr. Sonia Quaratino (Reader in Immunology, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, University of Southampton) gave an interesting introduction on the use of animal models. Valid animal models of diseases are of greater importance to better clarify human disease molecular pathways and to provide newer target for potential pharmacological treatment. The first speaker was Professor Elizabeth Simpson (Imperial College London, UK). Her talk on the right questions raising on the use of spontaneous models of human diseases gave a very clear explanation on their use. Using spontaneous models of diseases is convenient for three main points. Complex organisms may show common biological processes. Genetic and transgenic studies in mice can help to unravel complex pathological mechanisms in humans. Indeed, working with transgenic and knock down mice allows identification of molecular mechanism involved in complex diseases. Meeting Reports autoimmune transgenic spontaneous inflammation Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/2/19/2748016.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/2/19/2748016.html Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:48:10 +0000 An interesting meeting organized by Euroscicon, ‘New Applications for Flow Cytometry’, was held in London last November. The aims were giving a thorough introduction to flow cytometry and to review of the last issues about this useful technique. All the novel applications of flow cytometry were covered, in important fields in Biomedicine such stem cell research or apoptosis, together with many new developments concerning technical aspects, i.e. new reagents, antibodies or different kinds of flow cytometers. The meeting was Chaired by Mr. Ian Dimmick (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK), an expert in this field, who presented all the speakers and relevant participants. Meeting Reports stem cell Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/18/2660986.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/18/2660986.html Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:56:13 +0000 The goal of this meeting, held by Euroscicon, was to enlarge the knowledge about host-pathogen interactions in agricultural species, because it gives us a realistic opportunity to identify disease resistance genes. Pete Kaiser, Head of the Avian Genomics group at the Institute for Animal Health opened the meeting. His project aims to identify the molecular components of the immune system that are shared between mammals and birds, and those that represent their unique evolutionary solutions. The studies try to exploit the chicken genome sequence in two ways: understanding the bird’s immune response (particularly the repertoire of immune response genes and its innate immune response) and identifying disease resistance genes . Once the genes, whose products drive innate immune responses, have been identified the study will focus on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes between different lines of chickens that differ in their resistance to pathogens (coccidiosis, salmonellosis, hbv, hbdv, mdv). Meeting Reports SNP pathogen genomics antibodies Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/4/2620367.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/4/2620367.html Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:12:05 +0000 While in the last few years genomic and proteomic projects advanced uninterruptedly, understanding glycans is still difficult: their structural characterization is complicated, they have a non-template driven biosynthesis and automatic amplification of carbohydrates is still unavailable. Fortunately Glycomics is moving forward, and in the dawn of glycotech revolution, this EuroSciCon conference focused on novel technologies and bioinformatics approaches for the development of tools for data handling. The first speaker was Professor Jerry Turnbull, chairman of the conference and a experienced glycobiology researcher. Meeting Reports carbohydrate glycobiology microarray genomics proteomics cell antibodies sharac http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/11/2564583.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/11/2564583.html Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:48:52 +0000 EuroSciCon’s meeting, chaired by Professor Anne Dickinson (University of Newcastle), focused on the current advances in Tissue Engineering. Issues surrounding the use of embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells, immunological tolerance of stem cells and application of novel biomaterials, were discussed with clinical application in mind. The talks were opened by Dame Julia Polak (Imperial College, London) who introduced the issue of stem cells and regenerative medicine. The talk covered the major issues in regenerative medicine, which include the choice of cells and materials, the methods of scale-up, the choices for cell delivery and the requirements of pre-clinical and clinical phase applications. Main Page Meeting Reports stem MHC tissue regenerative immunology cell sharac http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2557003.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2557003.html Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:52:08 +0000 A report for this meeting will be posted here soon. The proceedings for this meeting are now available at: http://www.euroscicon.com/proceedings/avianinstructions.html Main Page Meeting Reports avian sharac http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556909.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556909.html Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:18:33 +0000 This Euroscicon meeting provided an ideal forum for bench scientists to catch up with the commercial companies slant on technologies such as multiplex cytokine analysis, cytokine secretion assays and intracellular staining and to hear colleagues discuss the application of these techniques in areas such as tuberculosis in humans and cattle, HIV, autoimmunity and dendritic cell biology. The day started with two talks on detection of cytokines in tuberculosis (TB). Main Page Meeting Reports tuberculosis infection ELISPOT cytokine cell antibodies Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/22/2519045.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/22/2519045.html Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:33:53 +0000 The scope of this small pan-European meeting covered many of the functions of heat shock proteins and was a reminder of how this family of proteins interacts with many biological systems and has far reaching implications in the manipulation of disease processes. Meeting Reports pathogen transplantation cytokine HSP tumour pathogens cell Dr Claire Morgan http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/30/2460368.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/30/2460368.html Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:40:36 +0000 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. Meeting Reports vaccines PCR pathogens immunostaining aquaculture antibodies sharac http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/22/2437628.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/10/22/2437628.html Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:16:33 +0100 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 Meeting Reports 2d proteomics sharac http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/5/2200990.html http://www.eurosciconpodcasts.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/5/2200990.html Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:47:28 +0100 EuroSciCon's focus on novel methods and their applications was at the fore in this informative meeting covering some of the latest findings on regulatory T cells. The popularity of this field was reflected by the number of delegates with a lively audience of 150 research scientists filling the Birkbeck lecture theatre. Talks covered the methodology of regulatory T cell isolation, quantification and expansion and data were presented from the fields of reproductive immunology, autoimmunity, inflammation (collitis) and transplantation Meeting Reports t helper immunology suppressor cell regulatory