Professor Maggie Smith(Institute of Medical Sciences,University of Aberdeen) will be speaking at EuroSciCon's 'Bacteriophages: Nature and Exploitation' meeting on 22nd February 2008.  The topic of her discussion will be 'Novel anti-phage systems in bacteria' .  The line-up for this meeting is looking great, 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 St Hospital, London

 

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 visitwww.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