microbial community profiling workshop
A one-day workshop, organised by the Infectious Disease Research Network in conjunction with the University of Southampton.
Date: Monday 20 June 2011
Location: Wellcome Collection conference centre, London, UK
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CPD approval wil be applied for (through the Royal College of Pathologists and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences)
AIM
The aim of such an event would be to bring together researchers interested in profiling whole bacterial communities using techniques such as metagenomics, (16s rDNA sequencing and whole bacterial DNA sequencing), T-RFLP, and other commercial applications.
OBJECTIVES
To allow interested researchers and clinicians to better understand the potential of such techniques and to identify the best method of profiling their bacterial community of choice. To provide researchers who wish to use such methods with an overview of the theory of these methods such that experimental design is possible. Use of methods will be illustrated with examples of their use in infection research
IMPORTANCE Such techniques are used in environmental microbiology and are now being used in projects such as the human microbiome projects to investigate the diversity human pathogens and commensals and to characterise the microbial profile of various niches and relate this to conditions such as GI and respiratory disease.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Alan Walker (Sanger, UK)
Geraint Rogers (Kings, UK)
Mike Cox (Imperial, UK)
Bill Cookson (Imperial, UK)
Nick Loman / Mark Pallen (Bham, UK)
Chris Quince (Glasgow, UK)
Luanne Hall-Stoodley (Southampton, UK)
Bill Keevil (Southampton, UK)
Nick Jakubovics (Newcastle, UK)
Registration
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Cost
Delegates prices will be as follows -
£80.09 standard delegate charge.
£40.09 for current students (e.g. BSc / MSc / PhD / medical or nursing student). Please ensure you send proof of student status to Cherry Constantine, c.constantine@ucl.ac.uk
Venue
The event will take place in the Henry Wellcome auditorium at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre (Wellcome Trust), 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, United Kingdom.
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Poster abstracts
Deadline for this has now passed.
Payment information
If you pay by cheque, please make them payable to 'University College London' and sent to Cherry Constantine, Research Department of Infection & Population Health, UCL - Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF.
During the registration process, you will be asked to specify your chosen payment method. If you select bank transfer, we will email you instructions on how to do this.
You can also pay by credit card (UK delegates only), by downloading a credit card form, and faxing it to us. For this form, and detailed information on payments, please click here.
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Postcode of the venue is NW1 2BE.
Contact the IDRN
Please direct queries to either Cherry Constantine, c.constantine@ucl.ac.uk or Michael Head, mhead@idrn.org , or phone 020 7830 2239.