We are pleased to confirm that Professor Maggie Smith (Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen) will be speaking at their 'Bacteriophages: Nature and Exploitation' meeting on 22nd February 2008.  The topic of her discussion will be 'Novel anti-phage systems in bacteria'.  This will add to an already impressive agenda with talks including:

 

Introduction by the Chair

Professor George Salmond, University of Cambridge

 

STX-Phages and Virulence Gene Dissemination in Pathogens

Dr. Heather E. Allison, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK

 

Phage therapy

Mr James Soothill, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK

 

Commercialisation of Phage

Dr Nick Housby, Novolytics Limited, UK

 

Phage vaccines for aquaculture

Dr John B. March, Pentlands Science Park, Scotland

 

Biotechnological challenges of phage therapy

Professor Mikael Skurnik, University of Helsinki, Finland

 

Use of phages for detection of bacterial pathogens

Dr Catherine E.D. Rees, University of Nottingham, UK

 

 

To book, please visit www.regonline.com/bacteriophages08. The deadline for early registration is December 20th 2007.

 

 

There is still time to submit an abstract - those accepted for poster and oral presentations will also be published in the proceedings. There will be a prize for the best poster. Abstract guidelines can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidlines.html