Please send details of any future meetings, conferences or symposia to the managing editor, for inclusion in this section.
International conference on SARS
8–11 May 2004, Lübeck, Germany The conference will cover the following topics: Epidemiology, Public Health Policy, SARS and Influenza (***new topic***), Origin of SARS, Clinical Results/Patient Treatment, Immunology, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Drug Discovery, Vaccines, Diagnostics, Virus-Host Interactions For further information see: Web: www.conventus.de/sars and www.conventus.de/pdf/sars04_flyer.pdf Abstract submission to rolf.hilgenfeld@conventus.de or sars@conventus.de
Molecular targeted therapy of irritable bowel syndrome
15 May 2004, Hampton Inn and Suites (Convention Center) New Orleans, LA, USA For further information see: Web: www.nature.com/bjpsymposium/ Registration: eventregistration@nature.com
Immunotherapy of cancer
19 May 2004; The Royal College of Pathologists, London For further information contact: The Royal College of Pathologists, 2 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF Tel: 020 7451 6740 E-mail: michelle.casey@rcpath.org Web: www.rcpath.org
Growth, expansion and differentiation of stem cells
21 May 2004, London, UK Deadline for reduced registration 2 April 2004 For further information contact: Tel: 0870 199 7315 E-mail: enquiries@euroscicon.comor Web: www.euroscicon.com/stemcells.html
First ESPGHAN Capri Meeting
27–29 May 2004, Grand Hotel Quisisana–Capri (Naples) Italy Gut inflammation: impact on gastrointestinal and systemic diseases For further information see: Web: www.messaggi–events.org/capri2004.
Growth, expansion and differentiation of stem cells
28 May 2004, London, UK Deadline for reduce registration 2 April 2004 For further information contact: Tel: 0870 199 7315 E-mail: enquiries@euroscicon.com Web: www.euroscicon.com/stemcells.html
13th International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases
3–5 June 2004, International Convention Centre “Neptune”, Toulon, France For further information see: Web: www.avps.org/2003/hiv.htm
European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
12–16 June 2004, Amsterdam, hosted by Netherlands Society of Allergology For further information see: Web: www.eaaci.net/site/content.php?l1=64&sel=28
Foundation For Allergy Research In Europe – FARE
12–16 June 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands The 12th Gold Medal FARE 2004 and two special awards FARE 2004, will be awarded during the 23th Congress of EAACI in Amsterdam 12–16 June 2004. Deadline–before 1 February 2004 For further information contact: Professor Ronald Dahl, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, Building 2B, DK–8000 Aarhus C, Denmark E-mail: rdahl@akh.aaa.dk
Scandinavian Society of Immunology, 21st summer school and 35th meeting
13–16 June 2004, Aarhus, Denmark For further information see: Web: www.ssi2004.dk or contact: Steffen Thiel, PhD, Bartholinbuilding, University of Aarhus, 8000, DK–Denmark E-mail: st@microbiology.au.dk
9th International Paediatric Haematolgy and Oncology Update Meeting
14–15 June 2004, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, United Kingdom For further information contact: IPHOUM 2004 Conference Secretariat, Crown House, 28 Winchester Road, RomseyHampshire SO51 8AA, UK Tel: +44 01794 5113311/511332 Fax: +44 01794 511455 E-mail: icms@indexcommunications.com Web: www.iphoum.com
New technologies in cytokine detection
18 June 2004, London, UK Deadline for reduce registration 1 June 2004 For further information contact: Tel: 0870 199 7315 E-mail: enquiries@euroscicon.com Web: www.euroscicon.com/cytokine.html
FASEB Summer Research Conference on Transplantation Immunology
19–24 June 2004, Snowmass Village, CO, USA Organizers: Angus Thomson, Robert I Lechler, Laurence A Turka, Megan Sykes. Up to 30 Category I CME credits can be earned. For further information contact: E-mail: jlevin@faseb.org Web: src.faseb.org
6th Congress of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids
27 June–1 July 2004, Brighton Centre, Brighton Sessions include: biomembrane structure, cell signalling, gene expression, immune function, inflammation, eicosanoids, lipid rafts. Early registration deadline is 2 April 2004. For further information contact: E-mail: natashadougall@wheldonevents.freeserve.co.uk Web: www.wheldonevents.co.uk/issfal
ELISPOT technology, tricks and triumphs
9 July 2004, The Old Refectory, Birkbeck College, London Registration deadline: 23 April 2004 For further information contact: Tel: 0870 199 7315 E-mail: enquiries@euroscicon.com Web: www.euroscicon.com/elispot.html International congress of immunology Tel: (613) 993 7271 E-mail: imuno2004@nrc.ca Web: www.immuno2004.org
BioScience 2004 – From Molecules to Organisms
18–22 July 2004, SECC, Glasgow, UK For further information see: Web: www.bioscience2004.org
International Congress of Immunology
18–23 July 2004, Montreal Convention Centre, Canada For further information contact: Immunology 2004 Management Office, National Research Council Canada, Montreal Road, Building M–19, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6
7th Jenner Glycobiology & Medicine Symposium
5–8 September 2004, Exeter College, Oxford For further information contact: Claire Bowen, Section Adminstrator, Academic Department The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE, UK Tel: 44 020 7290 3859 Fax: 44 020 7290 2989 E-mail: immunology@rsm.ac.uk Web: www.rsm.ac.uk/immunology
FEBS international summer school on immunology
6–13 September 2004, Ionian Village, Western Peloponese, Greece The immune system: genes, receptors and regulation For further information contact: Dr M Papamichail, Center for Immunology, St.Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Ave. Athens, 115 22 Greece. Tel: +30 210 6409624/5 Fax: +30 210 6409516 / 6420146 E-mail: papmail@hellasnet.gr Web: www.ciic.gr
Joint meeting – British Pharmacological & Toxicology Societies: Adverse reactions to drugs and chemicals: studies from molecules to man
9–10 September 2004 University of Liverpool, UK For further information contact: E-mail: meetings@bps.ac.uk Web: www.bps.ac.uk
British society for parasitology Autumn symposium 2004: Subversion of immune cell signalling by parasites
10 September 2004, Linnean Society Buildings, Piccadilly, London The meeting will be of interest to immunologists working both on signal transduction in cells of the innate and/or adaptive immune system and on evasion of the immune response by pathogens at the molecular level. For further information contact: W. Harnett. E-mail: w.harnett@strath.ac.uk
4th Euroconference on clinical cell analysis ‘flow and beyond’
23–25 September 2004, Mol, Belgium European Working Group on Clinical Cell Analysis (EWGCCA) in collaboration with the Belgian Association for Cytometry (BVC/ABC). For further information contact: Mrs Els van Musscher. E-mail: els.van.musscher@sckcen.be Tel: +32 14 33 28 77 Fax: +32 14 32 10 56 Web: www.sckcen.be/flow_and_beyond
1st International conference – basic & clinical immunogenomics
3–7 October 2004, in Budapest Hungary For further information contact: Conference secretariat, Diamond Congress Ltd., H–1255 Budapest, PO Box 48. Tel: +36 1 214 7701 Fax: +36 1 201 2680 E-mail: diamond@diamond–congress.hu Web: www.diamond–congress.hu/bci200
44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
30 October–2 November 2004, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, USA For further information contact: Tel: +1 202 942 9248 Fax: +1 202 942 9340
4th International Congress on Autoimmunity
3–7 November 2004, Budapest, Hungary For further information contact: Registration and Accommodation Dept.17 Rue du Cendrier, CH–1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 908 0488 Fax: +41 22 732 2850 E-mail: ktc@kenes.com
8th International Workshop in Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens (HLDA8) & 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Immunology
12–16 December 2004, Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia For further information please see: Web: www.hlda8.org or www.plevin.com.au/hlda8asi/
Mediated interference in practice
5 March 2005, The Old Refectory, London This meeting includes the most up–to–date developments in this exciting new area of research. Deadline for early registration is 8 February, 2004.
For further information contact: Tel: 0870 199 7315 E-mail: enquiries@euroscicon.comor Web: www.euroscicon.com/rnai.html
35th International Congress of Physicological sciences – From genome to functions
31 March–5 April 2005, San Diego, USA For further information see: Web: www.iups2005.org
Molecular Pathogenesis of Virus Infections
4–8 April 2005, Society for General Microbiology, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh For further information contact: Mrs Josiane Dunn, Meetings Administrator, SGM, Marlborough House, Basingstoke Road, Spencers Wood, Reading RG7 1AG, UK Tel: +44 118 988 1809 E-mail: meetings@sgm.ac.uk, icaac@asmusa.org Web: www.sgm.ac.uk, www.icaac.org
6th Conference of the European Society for Reproductive and Developmental Immunology (ESRADI)
5–9 September 2005, University of Essex, ColchesterEngland For further information contact: E-mail: nelson@essex.ac.uk or p.delves@ucl.ac.uk