The meeting will take place at The Biopark, Hertfordshire, UK and has CPD approval. The meeting chair will be Dr David Whitehouse.
 
The agenda for this event is under construction.  If you have any queries or are interested in speaking at this event please contact meetingsproducer@euroscicon.com.

Talks include:

Laser Microdissection in Parasitology - Professor Rory Post - Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Laser Capture Microdissection of Mouse Cortex - Mary Antypa - University College London
 
Automatic detection of spermatozoa for laser capture microdissection - Mado Vandewoestyne,, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University , Belgium
In sexual assault crimes, laser capture microdissection (LCM) enables separation of spermatozoa and epithelial cells. We describe an automated screening method to detect spermatozoa stained with Sperm HY-LITERTM, a fluorescent kit for the detection of human spermatozoa. Different ratios of spermatozoa and epithelial cells as well as real postcoital samples were used to assess the automatic detection method. Detected spermatozoa were isolated using LCM and DNA analysis was performed. Robust DNA profiles without allelic dropout could be obtained from as little as 30 spermatozoa recovered from postcoital samples, showing that the staining and LCM had no significant influence on DNA recovery.


Additional Speakers
Dr Roman Gonitel - Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London
Dr Tanja Crnogorac-Jurcevic, QMUL

The Deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentation is March 10th 2010

The Deadline for early registration is March 20th 2010. After this time the fees double, so make sure you register early!

If you would like to keep up to date with the agenda and/or book a place, please visit: www.regonline.co.uk/Laser09