Meetings for the year 2001 and 2002

Index:

From the beginning of 2001 all new meetings being announced are now being added to the list on priondata.org


New meetings are now organised in reverse order i.e. the ones that have not yet taken place are at the top.

Other link sources for meetings are:

Meetings in 2002

4th INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON THE THERAPY OF INFECTIONS

23/10 26/10 Firenze ITALIA 2002
Società Clinica Malattie Infettive, Università degli Studi di Firenze Many aspects including the treatment of prion disease.
PresidenteF. Paradisi  Segreteria Clinica Malattie Infettive, Università degli  ScientificaStudi di Firenze, Ospedale Careggi, Viale Morgagni, 85, 50134 Firenze (Italy) - Tel. +39 055 4279478, Fax +39 955 4279480  Email: infdismeetings@ao-careggi.toscana.it

5th International Conference of the Hospital Infection Society

15 – 18 September 2002   Edinburgh
There will be a 4 speaker symposium led by Professor Don Jeffries on CJD on
Monday 16 September 2001 at the above conference.
For further data: Linda Weir
Project Manager
Concorde Services
Unit 4b, 50 Speirs Wharf
Port Dundas
Glasgow G4 9TB
Tel: + 44 (0) 141 331 0123
Fax: + 44 (0) 141 331 0234
http://www.his2002.co.uk/

1st NATO MEDICAL SYMPOSIUM INCORPORATING THE 7TH NATO BLOOD CONFERENCE

August 31—September 6, 2002 (300 participants)
Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom

International Organiser: Joint Medical Committee
Local Organiser: Ministry of Health
Project Manager:
http://www.cd-cc.si/congress/
This should contain much of the information concerning prion infection in blood

The 8th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

July 20-25, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden
Sponsor: Alzheimer's Association
AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit provided by Geriatric Research, Education & Clinical Center
For more information contact Dale West, (312) 335-5790
Web Address: www.alz.org/internationalconference

The Alzheimer's Association invites you to join world experts in dementia research at the 8th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders from July 20-25, 2002, in Stockholm. Founded in 1988 by the World Association of Alzheimer's Disease Scientists (WAADS) and now hosted by the Alzheimer's Association, this seminal event will feature 135 invited speakers addressing 15 plenary sessions and 20 symposia on topics including:
- Epidemiology and risk factors
- Genetics and genetic testing
- Diagnosis, neuroimaging, and biomarkers of Alzheimers and related disorders
- Histopathology of amyloid, tau, inflammation, and other disease mechanisms
- Cellular and animal models
- Current interventions and approaches to future therapies
- Human and animal prion diseases

Forum of European Neuroscience
July 13th - 17th 2002. Federation of European Neurosciences Societies (FENS). Société des Neurosciences, France, hosts the next  in Paris at the Palais des Congrès,  Contact 3rd FORUM of European Neuroscience, Monica Di Luca PhD, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, via Balzaretti, 9, 20133
Milano - Italy. Email monica.diluca@unimi.i Web: http://fens2002.bordeaux.inserm.fr/

The IV th International Symposium on NeuroVirology and The X th Conference on Neuroscience of HIV Infection

a conjoint meeting June 19–22, 2002 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

discuss the problems created by prion diseases.
http://www.hiv-neurovirology2002.de/invitation/main.htm

World Congress of Neurology.

17-22 June 2001. Earls Court, Olympia, Warwick Road, London SW5 UK. Contact WCN
 2001, Concorde Services Ltd, 42 Canham Road, London W3 7SR, UK. Tel: +44(0) 181 743 3106. Fax: +44 (0) 181 743 1010. email: wcn@concorde-uk.com. web: http://www.concorde-uk.com/wcn-2001

 

12th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases


24-27 April 2002.  Milan, Italy.
http:/www.escmid.org/eccmid2002
Prion disease section:

Mechanism of Amyloid Formation and Propagation: Lesson from a Yeast Prion

April 23, Dr. Jonathan Weissman
Associate Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
UCSF
http://searle.bio.jhu.edu/people/weissman.html

HERIOT WATT MEETING

Tuesday 9 April 2002
14.00-14.40 Byron Caughey NIAID, USA.   Prion interconversions.
http://www.biochemsoc.org/meetings/programme.cfm?meetno=676#2-2
Neurodegeneration Unit
Department of Surgery
St. Georges Hospital Medical School
Cranmer Terrace
LONDON  SW17 ORE
Tel: 020 8 725 5651
Fax: 020 8 725 3594
Email: sghk200@sghms.ac.uk

Society for General Microbiology

150th Ordinary Meeting, University of Warwick, 8-12 April 2002
How to get to the University of  Warwick: University of Warwick
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings.htm (for the forms and applications)
Main symposium
Tuesday 9th April: A. AGUZZI Universitatsspital Zurich, Switzerland Pathogenesis of prion diseases
B. CHESEBRO  Rocky Mountain  Laboratories, Hamilton, USA Multiple roles of prion protein in  the TSE diseases

 Virus et nouveaux agents émergents dans les produits biopharmaceutiques : une approche de sécurité / Viruses and new emerging agents in biologicals : safety approach

14-15 mars 2002 / March 14-15, 2002
Comité Scientifique / Scientific Committee: N. DUMEY, R. LOWER, G. POLASTRI, J.H. TROUVIN
Centre d'Information Scientifique
Institut Pasteur,
28, rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
: http://www.pasteur.fr/applications/euroconf/

The next Brain Awareness Week

11-17  March 2002.
More details of what is going on: some concerning prion disease. http://homepages.which.net/~edab/BAW.htm

10th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES

11 - 14 March 2002 For further enquiries, please contact Dr Sara Zaman at e-mail: zas@np.edu.sg or visit the conference website at http://www.isid.
Raffles City Convention Center
Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza
2 Stamford Road
Singapore
Plenary session: Molecular Biology of Prion Diseases Charles Weissman, United Kingdom

Biophysical Society

23-27th Feb 2002 Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, California  Prions & Proteins Misfolding
                       Introduction
                       Stanley Prusiner, University of California, San Francisco, Chair

                       Structural Studies of the Conformations of PrPc & PrPSc
                       Fred Cohen, University of California, San Francisco

                       Structure & Dynamics of the Prion & Doppel Proteins
                       Jane Dyson, Scripps Research Institute

                       Structural Studies of the Scrapie Prion Protein by Electron
                       Crystallography
                       Holger Wille, University of California, San Francisco

                       Species Variation of the Three Dimensional Prion Protein
                       Structure
                       in the Cellular Form
                       Kurt Wüthrich, ETH, Zurich

                       Structural Studies of a Yeast Prion Protein, Ure2
                       David Davies, NIDDK, NIH

                          Biophysical Society, 9650 Rockville Pike
                              Bethesda, MD 20814-3998
                         Phone: 301-530-7114; Fax: 301-530-7133;
                               society@biophysics.org

TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES

(concerning blood transfusion risks more than anything else)
6-7, Feb 2002 Organised by Cambridge Healthtech:
Phone: 617-630-1300, Fax:  617-630-1325
Email: chi@healthtech.com.  http://www.healthtech.com/2002/bss/

EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS, AND DIAGNOSTICS
Update on vCJD and Blood-Related Transmission Surveillance in the UK
Dr. Robert Will, CJD Surveillance Unit-Edinburgh (UK)
Worldwide Surveillance on BSE and vCJD: WHO Perspective
Dr. Maura Ricketts, World Health Organization (Switzerland)
Prion Protein as a Copper-Binding Protein
Dr. David Harris, Washington University School of Medicine
Distribution of Prion Protein (PrRc) on Blood Cells in Various Species: Speculations about PrPc Function
Dr. Karel Holada, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

INFECTIVITY IN BLOOD OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS
Infectivity in Blood of Experimental Animals: vCJD Update
Dr. Larisa Cervenakova, American Red Cross
Blood-Related Infectivity Studies in Primates
Dr. Dominique Dormont, INSERM (France)
Title to Be Determined
Dr. Paul Brown, National Institutes of Health

THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES: NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Pentosan Polysulfates as a Potential Therapy for TSEs
Dr. Moira Bruce, IAH (UK) (tentative)
Cyclic Tetrapyrroles
Dr. Suzette A. Priola, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH (invited)
Sheet Breaker Peptides
Dr. Claudio Soto, Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Switzerland) (invited)

BIOCHEMISTRY OF PRIONS

23rd January 2002, SCI Belgrave Sq, London.

The meeting should be of considerable interest to protein chemists, glycobiologists, biomedical scientists and the food and agricultural industry.

For further details, contact:
Professor Chris Bucke
F: +44 (0) 20 7911 5087
E: buckec@westminster.ac.uk

From Prion disease to Alzheimer’s. Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Perspectives of Neurodegenerative diseases

15-16 January 2002
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Medizinische Fakultät Leipziger Str.44
39120 Magdeburg
 Germany
http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/fme/institute/inbc/conference.htm
http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/fme/institute/inbc/orderofspeakers.htm

European Soc for Vet Microbiology

9-11` January 2002, Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London.
Organised by a joint group involving the Eurpean Soc for Vet Microbiology
Further data: www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings
Markus Glatzel talking on Neuroinvasion of prions
Bob Will talking about the clinical and epidemiological aspects of vCJD (10.1.02)

NIH regular lectures: Prion immunobiology


8th January 2002, Ms. Hilda Madine,
(301) 594-5595 http://www1.od.nih.gov/wals/schedule.htm
Masur Auditorium Building 10NIH, Bethesda, MD
SPECIAL TUESDAY LECTURE OF THE 2001-2002 NIH LECTURE SERIES: "Immunobiology of Prion Diseases," Dr. Adriano Aguzzi, Professor and Director, Institute of Neuropathology, Associate Dean for Research, University of Zurich Medical School, Switzerland, speaker. (Hosted by the Neurobiology Interest Group).

Frontiers of Structural Biology (J2)

January 5 - January 11, 2002    Organizers: John Kuriyan, William I. Weis and Michael F. Summers Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado Abstract Deadline: September 5, 2001  ·  Early Registration: November 5, 2001.  Keystone info@keystonesymposia.org
Little to do with prions except:
Susan L. Lindquist , University of Chicago The Role of Chaperones in Evolution and in Prion-Like Diseases


 

Meetings from 2001: meetings that have yet to take place

 

Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

Nov 10-15, 2001   San Diego, USA.

Further information from:
Society for Neuroscience
Nancy Beang: Executive Director
11 Dupont Circle, N.W.,
Suite 500
Washington D.C. 20036
(202) 462-6688
http://www.sfn.org/
info@sfn.org

International Quality Research in Dementia Conference

5th to 8th November, 2001 The Queen Elizabeth II Conference
    Centre, Westminster, London. UK. NeuroPsych Conferences, Templeman House, 500 Larkshill Road, London E4 9HH. Fax
    +44 (0)20 8527 8404. email: conferences@neuropsych.co.uk web: http://www.neuropsych.co.uk/

Stanley Research meeting

November 15-17, 2001 in Bethesda  http://www.stanleylab.org/Document/symposium/symposium99.html  This includes information on the antiviral properties of various drugs.
 

Annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

25-28 October 2001, San Francisco
The TSE section is on October 26th and includes Rob Will talking about vCJD, Katherine O'Rourke about the distribution of disease in many tissues of the body in animals, and prion pathogenesis and transmission by Fabio Montrasio from Zurich.
www.idsociety.org.

Symposium on conformational neurodegenerative diseases

October 23-26 2001.  (CND symposium) International Congress on the Molecular and  Cell Biology of Alzheimer's disease and Prion Diseases. Budapest, Hugary in the Atrium Hyatt Hotel. Contact Convention Budapest Ltd. 1461 Budapest PO Box 11 Hungary. Tel (36-1)-317-8773 fax (36-1)-267-4583 convention.budapest@mail.datanet.hu Scientific details from Dr Lajos Laszlo Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest laszlo@cerebus.elte.hu

European Soc for the Emerging Infections

Hotel Millenium, Budapest, Hungary.

21-23 October 2001

http://www.idreview.co.uk/content/pages/vol.1-1.htm

4th International Symposium on NeuroVirology

September, 2001, in Wurzburg, Germany (location tentative). Volker ter Meulen, M.D., will serve as the meeting chair.

The 6th International Congress of Neuroimmunology

Edinburgh, Scotland, on September 4-7, 2001. This meeting will create a major forum for clinicians and scientists to interact and cover well-known neuroimmunological fields, including: multiple sclerosis and autoimmunity of the peripheral nervous system and neuromuscular junction; immune-mediated diseases of the eye; immune aspects of neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's), stroke, and cerebral tumors; and related immunotherapeutic approaches. The conference will cover four full days with plenary sessions each morning followed by three parallel symposia and daily poster sessions. For more information, visit the web site at www.neuroimmunology-congress.org.
 

http://www.neuroimmunology-congress.org/index.htm
Hugh Perry to speak concerning the immunological aspects to prion disease

Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee


18th of Sept, 2001.  Hotel Inter-Continental, Hyde Park Corner, London.
This is the morning session of its September meeting and was decided to be open to the public but that people must apply to be there in advance by the 10th of September.  Contact Mair Richards  SEAC Secretariat  Area 305  Department for Environment,
     Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)  1A Page Street  London SW1P 4PQ e-mail:
     j.m.richards@ahbse.defra.gsi.gov.uk UNS Contact: Department of Health Media
     (LSE: HMD.L - news) Centre, Tel: 020 7210 5221

Updated SEAC reports can be got to via a website: http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/bse/bse-science/level-3-seac.html
 

Meetings that have already taken place in 2001

Workshop on copper and prion disease.

This workshop will be held on the 6-7 of August this year. The number of people
who can attend is limited. Those who would be interested in knowing more
about copper in prion disease or feel they have important data they would
wish to present on this issue should contact me by email (drb33@cam.ac.uk).

Further information can be found on the Web site (still being constructed)
http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/prion/workshop.html

International STVM/WDA Joint Conference: Wildlife and livestock disease and sustainability

22-27 July 2001, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa
 http://www.oie.int/eng/manifestations/en_manifs.htm
Inquiries:
Sandra Collier - Millissa Pietersen
STVM/WDA 2001
c/o Event Dynamics
PO Box 98008
Sloane Park 2152
South Africa
Tel (27 11) 706 5010– Fax (27 11) 463 7195
E-mail: millissa@eventdynamics.co.za

Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists

June 21-24, 2000, at the Holiday Inn-Mart Plaza, in Chicago, IL.
include Dr. Stephen DeArmond's Presidential Address entitled Mechanisms of Degeneration in Prion Diseases
contact Dr. Joseph Parisi, Secretary-Treasurer, AANP, Dept Lab Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, Phone: 507-284-3394, Fax: 507-284-1599, E-mail: aanp@mayo.edu

http://www.alzforum.org/members/resources/conferencearchives.html
(has a lot of prion meetings in it) But goes back a long way and not forward much.
 
 
 

CANADIAN CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

June 12-16, 2001 Halifax, Canada
http://www.ccns.org/Halifax_meeting/general_info.html
I could see nothing concerning BSE in the set up.


 

Advances in Transfusion Safety

http://www.pei.de/termine/iabs_2001.htm
June 7 and 8, 2001, the venue will be the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen, Germany

This meeting is intended to present an overview focussed on current topics including state-of-the-art technologies and the latest scientific developments in the field of transfusion safety, and to provide a platform for scientific discussion and informal get-togethers with colleagues from academia, transfusion sector, industry and regulatory authorities.

Prion diseases Epidemiology of vCJD. Asher
Evidence from sheep experiments N. Hunter
Pathogenesis of vCJDUpcoming Diagnostic tests
Removal of prions from blood products H. Baron
 

American Society for Microbiology

May 20-May 24 2001.  Orlando, Florida

http://www.asm.org/mtgsrc/generalmeeting.htm

I can find no great prion lectures in the preview of the meeting but there is always some that turn up.

Consumers Association Meeting Concerning the Phillips Inquiry

Consumers' Association is hosting a seminar on 5th April
in conjunction with
the Governance and Science Group.
The seminar will be held at CA and will start at 10.00.
We expect it to finish ay around 14.00. We will provide lunch.

09.45 Coffee
10.00 Introduction
10.10 Overview of main issues raised by Phillips
10.30 Reactions/ discussion of Phillips - positive and
negative aspects
11.15 Overview of government's response to Inquiry and
questions raised in
consultation
11.30 Coffee
11.40 Discussion:
government and science (including role and
functioning of scientific committees)
openness/ FoI good government (modernisation, co-ordination, policy development and enforcement) institutions public involvement impact of measures on various interests gaps in legislation or research implications for Europe
13.00 Lunch (working if necessary)
14.00 Close (General GSG meeting)
Sue Davies
Principal Policy Adviser
Consumers' Association
2 Marylebone Road
London NW1 4DF
Tel: 020 7770 7274
Fax: 020 7770 7666
 

IBC's Biological Safety & Production (BSP) 2001

April 2-5, 2001
IBC's Third Annual Biological Safety and Production (BSP) meeting is the most relevant event addressing emerging issues in biopharmaceutical production and pathogen safety. (inc prion diseaes)
http://www2.barryinc.com/cgi-bin/b_cal/list/apr01.979054761.4513.html
 

Biological Safety & Production (BSP)


2001 conference which will be held on April 2 – 5, 2001 in Vienna, VA.
Click here for full details: http://www.ibcusa.com/bsp
http://www.hum-molgen.de/meetings/meetings/1412.html
Conference Highlights Include:
* FDA and European Regulatory Perspectives
* Prions
* Transgenics
* Xenotransplantation
* Viral Clearance
* Blood Plasma

For a complete speaker listing: http://www.ibcusa.com/bsp

Please contact me if you have any other questions.
Phone 508-616-5550Fax 508-616-5522
E-mail reg@ibcusa.com
MailIBC USA Conferences, Inc.One Research Drive, Suite 400AP.O. Box 5195Westborough, MA 01581-5195
 E-mail:   jprudhomme@ibcusa.com
 
 

Regards,
Jim Prudhomme
Marketing
IBC USA Conferences

Soc Experimental Biology

ANNUAL MEETING

2 - 6 April 2001, UNIVERSITY OF KENT (Canterbury),

WEDNESDAY 4th http://www.sebiology.com/meetings/2001/agm/wednesday.htm
11.00 D.W. Cox (Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Canada)
Copper transport pathways in human disease. [C1.31]

11.30 J.S. Valentine (Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
Copper, SOD and ALS. [C1.32]

12.00 David R. Brown (Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK)
Prion protein function requires copper. [C1.33]

The Molecular Basis of Neurodegenerative Disease

Steamboat Springs, Colorado
March 29, 2001- April 03, 2001
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/
 

Society for General Microbiology

148th Ordinary Meeting 26-30 March. Heriot Watt University

Few things on TSEs except Moira Bruce's lecture on the Secret lives of TSEs

contact 0044 118 988 1800

http://www.sgm.ac.uk/
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/MTGPAGES/hw.htm
Wed 28 Mar John Barbara.  Blood borne viruses and the safety of blood products.

PRIONS AND DNA ISSUES IN BIOPROCESSING

Cambridge UK from March 26 to 27, 2001.
For further information please contact the chairman of the the Working Group, Alois Jungbauer. jungbaue@hp01.boku.ac.at
PROGRAMME
Monday March 26th 2001
9.00-9.15 Inger Mollerup Novo Nordisk, Gentofte; Vice Chairperson of the Working Group Downstream Processing Welcome and introduction to the Working Group Downstream Processing
Prion issues in bioprocessing
9.15-10.00 Dr. Bruno Oesch, Prionics AG, Zürich, CH, New developments in prion diagnostics
10.00-10.45 Dr. David Taylor, Neuropathogenesis Unit, Sedecon 2000, Edinburgh, UK, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: practical aspects of agent inactivation or removal
10.45-11.15 Coffee and tea
11.15-12.00 Lena Hellquist, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Uppsala, S, Minimizing the use of animal derived components in raw materials
12.00-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.15 Dr. Philip Minor, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), Potters Bar, UK Standardization issues in the TSE-field
14.15-15.00 Dr. Hannelore Willkommen, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, D, Will be announced
15.00-15.30 Coffee and tea
15.30-16.15 Dr. Lincols Tsang, Medicines Control Agency (MCA), London, UK, An overview of the regulatory guidelines on minimising trans-mission of spongioform encephalopathies through medicinial products
16.15-17.00 Dr. John Purvis, European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), London, UK EU guidelines on the production of biological and biotechnological products
17.00-17.15 Break
17.15-18.15, Panel discussion on prion issues in bioprocessing, Chaired by Dr. Stuart Builder
 
 

Oxidative Stress and Disease

March 18-23, 2001
Clarion Ventura Beach Hotel
Ventura, CA
Chair and Organizer - Simon Melov Ph.D.
Buck Institute for Age Research
8001 Redwood Blvd.
Novato, CA 94945
Ph: 415 899 1800
Fax: 415 209 2231
email: smelov@buckinstitute.org
http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2001/oxid.htm
Remember the associations that have been put forward for the pathological aspects of oxidative stress with SE

Brain Awareness Week 2001

March 12-16 . Please see our planned activities, and send your suggestions and ideas for brain awareness activities to kjorund@cc.umanitoba.ca. http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/wcsn/baw2001/

Meeting involving TSE factors


March 14th Ramsis Hilton Hotel,Cairo,Egypt.It was organized by Parmex and Dawy
Comprehensive Quality  Consultants(DCQC) consulting groups of Cairo,Egypt.

handle validated testing-OIE/EU-as well as research involving TSE tesating in blood Drug,and
cosmetic product components e.g gelatine and tallow.

De Lange Conference IV: Neuroscience

Theme: Neurobiology of Perception and Communication:From Synapse to Society
Date: March 5 - 6, 2001
Co-hosts: Rice University & Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.delange.rice.edu/ConferenceIV/
I could see nothing on BSE this year

Plasma Derivatives, Market developments, Safety and Regulations

1 - 2 March 2001, The Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.ibc-lifesci.com/IX192
·  Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease and its new variant
·  Update on developments with CJD-infectivity in blood
+44 1932 893856

 

Meetings in 2000

FENS2000 European Forum of Neuroscience

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
24-28 June 2000, Brighton, UK.
Metropole Hotel and Brighton Conference Centre
SYMPOSIUM 23: THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF DEGENERATIVE NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE (not clearly on prions)
SYMPOSIUM 36: NEW MOLECULAR INSIGHTS AND CLINICAL RESEARCH IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE: BRIDGING THE GAP?
EDAB PUBLIC LECTURE: ISSUES IN NEUROSCIENCE
Chair: C Blakemore (Oxford, UK) Brain, Mind and Society at the Millennium - an evening of debate and discussion on the philosophical and social implications of current developments in the neurosciences.
Full information and addresses: www.fens2000.org/2000science.htm

KNOCKOUTS AND MUTANTS 111: GENETICALLY DISSECTING BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR

THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIOURAL AND NEURAL GENETICS SOCIETY

22 - 23 June 2000, Brighton, UK
Information: W.E. Crusio, Institut de Transgenose, CNRS UPR 9074, 3B rue de la Ferollerie, 45071 Orleans Cedex 02, France.
Telephone: +33-2-38257974
Fax: +33-2-38257979
email: crusio@cnrs-orleans.fr
www.ibngs/aplbrighton.html

Beyond the Genome 18th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

16-20.7.2000 International Convention Centre, Birmingham, UK.
Understanding and exploiting molecules and cells in the third millennium
Full details on: www.iubmb2000.org
email: info@iubmb2000.org
Of particular prion interest:

3rd International Symposium on Neurovirology

September 14-16, 2000. Hyatt Regency Hotel San Francisco.

Stan Prusiner will be speaking but I expect that many other speakers on TSEs will be there. Inadequate data at this point. Visit the ISNV Web site for more information. Abstract deadline 18.4.00 

DEGENERATION AND REGENERATION IN THE CNS FROM BIOLOGY TO DISEASES

FENS Summer School
2nd Elba School on Neuroscience 11 - 17 September 2000, Elba, Italy
< A HREF="http://www.univie.ac.at/fens-schools/Elba99.HTML">www.univie.ac.at/fens-schools/Elba99.HTML
P.R.Bar@neuro.azu.nl

Hospital Infection Soc. Year 2000: Towards a Consenses. Workshop meeting on CJD

13.9.00. Contact Annabelle Hunt. Dupre House, Baring Rd, Beaconsfield, Bucks UK. HP9 2NB. 0044 1494 673333. A major workshop on the decisions to be taken concerning the risks within a hospital as a result of CJD. 

Third International Symposium on Neurovirology

14-16 September, 2000. Hyatt Regancy Hotel San Francisco, California. Further information from Lynn Pulliam, Univ California, San Francisco or from HREF="http://www.isnv.org">ISVN web site

PHLS Annual Scientific Conference

18-20 September 2000 University of Warwick
Contact the PHLS in London if you want to go. There will be some minor TSE papers presented but usually non-PHLS people are not permitted. 

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

2-3 October 2000. Hilton Alexandria Old Town, Virginia, USA. Organised by Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Second Annual International. 1037 Chestnut St, Newton Uper Falls, MA 02464. 617-630-1300 or chi@healthtech.com
A major report from scientists on pathogenesis, diagnostics and therapy research. Major internationally recognised scientists. All costs over 400 dollars.

Food Standard Agency Public Meeting

The meeting on the 9th October at the Station Hotel in York from around 10.15 to mid afternoon is to permit public interaction with the problems of BSE and how the FSA is handling them. Further details about this are at http://www.bsereview.org.uk/templates/news/meeting.cfm/34. Do remember to read the report before you go to the meeting. 

Optimising Blood Product Safety

16th-17th October 2000 plus a third day on "Understanding the regulatory requirements of blood safety"
So far there is no specific site for the meeting but that is being put together by IIR. contact James Matthews on UK-020 7915 5665 or jmatthews@iir-conferences.com Only a few of these are concerning the risks from prions:

Neuropeptides@the.millennium

Satellite Symposium of the 2000 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
21 - 23 October 2000, Miami, USA
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 843 691
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 843 958
www.elsevier.nl:80/homepage/sag/bri99/
smwilkinson@elsevier.co.uk

UPDATES IN NEUROLOGY

To be held on Sun Island resort in the Maldives Islands , 25-30 October, 2000
Topics include: Headache, MS, Epilepsy, Prion diseases, Alzheimer's,Parkinson and stroke For detailed information, program, cost and booking form, Full information on the web site at: http://www.ami-lloyd.co.il/ami-lloyd/conference.html

Neuroscience

Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La. 5-9 November
at http://news.bmn.com/conferences
This is probably too late to go to but there is a supply of daily information on:
http://news.bmn.com/conferences/sfnsignmeup

Plagues of Tommorrow and Yesterday

Nov 10 2000. London Queen Elezabeth II conference centre (near to Houses of Parliament). Orgaised as part of the Millennium Festival of Medicine. Organised with the BMA in the UK. confunit@bma.org.uk or online information: www.medicine2000.org or 0207 383 6605
Complex sessions involving a long discussion of specific illnesses that we are facing in the world as a whole in the next hundred years. One part of this involves CJD but most of the conference looks into the biology of plagues in general and why we are at risk much greater now than previously. 

Prion Diseases and Related Processes International symposium

Nov12-16 2000 in Annecy, France.
Organised by the Marcel Merieux Foundation. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines concerned with prion and related diseases.
Email: bdodet@fond-merieux.org
Website: www.fond-merieux.org

Quality Research in Dementia

19-22.11.2000 In association with the Alzheimer's Society. Venue: QEII Conference Centre, London. Enquiries to Neuropsych Conferences
+44 020 8530 7277
enquiries@neuropsych.co.uk

6th INTERNATIONAL FEED PRODUCTION CONFERENCE Food safety: current situation and perspectives in the European Community

November 27-28 2000.
This is mainly a meeting concerning the feed production for the animal industry but will contain other factors. Their full data is at http://www.newteam.it/eurofood2000/

Therapeutic Opportunities in Neurodegenerative Diseases

November 30 - December 3
Cold Spring Harbour
nucleus.cshl.org/meetings/

Neuronal and Vascular Stress: a new window on Alzheimer's disease

Jan 15-21, 2001. Keystone Symposia. 221 Summit Place #272, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne,Co 80498, USA
800-253 0685 or 970 262 1230
keystone@symposia.com
www.symposia.com
e-mail to

Steve Dealler at deal@airtime.co.uk


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