International meetings of interest to ANZSCDB Members: 9

The first Keystone Symposia conference in Australia.

Keystone Symposia: Telomere Biology and DNA Repair

October 9-14, 2009 - RACV Royal Pines Resort, Ashmore, Queensland, Australia

A keynote address by Stephen C. West of Cancer Research UK opens the conference, followed by four days of informative plenary and poster sessions.

Abstract submission and registration now open. Deadlines:

• Abstract & Scholarship - June 10, 2009
  
• Late-Breaking Abstract - July 13, 2009
  
• Early Registration - August 10, 2009

Information and full meeting program on the website. Topics include:

• DNA Damage Sensing and Signaling
• Telomeres and DNA Damage Response
• BIR and ALT
• DNA Repair
• Telomerase/Control of Telomerase
• Telomeres, DNA Repair and Human Disease

Organizers:
Roger R. Reddel, Children's Medical Research Institute
Michael B. Kastan, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Titia deLange, Rockefeller University

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4th Asian Epigenomics Meeting

Biopolis, Singapore, 24 - 25 August 2009

• on-line Registration
• Early Bird registration closes 30 April 2009
• Organizers: Dr NG Huck Hui (GIS); Dr Edwin CHEUNG (GIS); Ms Winnie Serah LIM (GIS)

International Society of Developmental Biologists Congress

Date: September 6-10, 2009
Venue: Edinburgh, Scotland

Meeting: The premier Developmental Biology meeting internationally, International congress and symposia held every 4 years; Ross G. Harrison Prize is awarded awarded at the meeting.

International Symposium on Stem Cell Transplantation in Multiple Sclerosis

Date: October 5-9, 2009, Moscow, Russia
Convenors: Y Shevchenko ( Russia) and H-P Hartung (Germany)
Call for Papers: Abstract submisson accepted to March 1, 2009