Eukaryotic gene expression is modulated at many layers of regulatory control. It is becoming apparent that differentiation and development involve the action of numerous regulatory non-protein coding RNAs (ncRNAs). This meeting will focus on the discovery and characterization of ncRNAs in the context of embryogenesis and organismal development, highlighting recent technological advances for high-throughput functional genomics. Meeting Chair: Paul Bertone, European Bioinformatics Institute , Cambridge, UK   more »

REGISTER AT www.regonline.co.uk/bacteriophage10 "Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities on earth and are major drivers of bacterial adaptive evolution. Studies on phage biology underpin our core knowledge of modern molecular biology - and phage research has provided many of the techniques and biochemical reagents used by all molecular biologists. This meeting is the third in a successful biennial series discussing the biological nature of bacteriophages, and their exploitation in basic microbiology (for genetics and functional genomics); diagnostics, ecology and evolution, phage display, vaccines, and in therapeutics in animal and human infections. The general structure of the meeting is to have short, expert presentations on this spectrum of topics, plus short Q&A sessions and offered posters. The meeting will be of interest to anyone who is currently using phages in their research work or who might be interested in the potential application of phages for basic biology, and applied topics such as bacterial diagnostics, vaccine development and phage therapy". Meeting chair - Professor George Salmond, University of Cambridge, UK The Deadline for early registration is November 20th 2009 After this time the fees double, so make sure you register early!   more »

Well renowned scientist, Professior Kingston Mills (Professor of Experimental Immunology and Head School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin) will be presenting the keynote address at Euroscicon's upcoming Regulatory T cells meeting...   more »

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