6TH European Spore Conference April 9-11, 2014

6TH European Spore Conference

at Royal Holloway, University of London

on April 9TH, 10TH, 11TH, 2014

* Online registration is open - early registration is available
until February 1st, 2014.

The European Spores Conference provides the only worldwide forum for scientists with an interest in spores and spore-forming bacteria. The conference has followed earlier meetings in Slovakia and Italy and with the last being held at the Royal Holloway, University of London in April 2012.

We are particularly keen to see talks from younger researchers and we will organize sessions under the following themes:

  • Spore formation, structure and function
  • The role of spores in infection and disease
  • Applications of spores
  • The impact of spores in food safety
  • Clostridium difficile
  • The use of spores as probiotics and in animal feed
  • Bacillus anthracis

Please note that we will consider any presentation that covers the field of spores or spore-formers! Travel support will be available as well as best speaker and best poster prizes for early stage researchers.

Invited speakers:

  • Patrick Eichenberger, New York University, USA.
    “An inferred model of the Bacillus subtilis global transcriptional regulatory network”
  • Rich Losick, Harvard University, USA.
    “How environmental signals trigger spore formation”
  • Lee Kroos, Michigan State University,USA.
    “A Tale of Two Spores”
  • Maja Rupnik, Institute of Public Health Maribor, Slovenia.
    “C. difficile - a 35 years of a pathogen”
  • Peter Setlow, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT USA.
    “The Germination of Spores of Bacillus and Clostridium Species: Multiple Ways to Come back to Life”

Oral presentations will be chosen from abstracts submitted before 15th February. Those interested in giving an oral presentation should send an abstract as soon as possible to s.cutting@rhul.ac.uk. Registration is not necessary for abstract submission and can be completed later.

Deadlines:

  • Awards – For travel support the deadline for submission is: 1st February 2014
  • Abstract – For consideration of poster or speaker presentation the deadline for submission of abstracts is: 15th February 2014
  • Registration – Registration for the conference: 28th March 2014

We look forward to seeing you at the Royal Holloway in April 2014!

The organizing committee,
Simon Cutting, Ezio Ricca, Imrich Barak and Neil Fairweather

For full details and online registration please click on the following link:

http://sporesconference.com/

For more information please contact :

Prof. Simon Cutting
School of Biological Sciences,
Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX, UK
Tel: +44-(0)1784-443760
Mobile: +44-(0)7733-425024
Fax: +44-(0)1784-414224
E-mail: S.Cutting@rhul.ac.uk

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