Announcing the 2011 Queenstown Research Week Meetings
Queenstown
Research week aims to bring together as much of the NZ Bioscience research
community as possible in one place at one time by hosting and coordinating a
range of scientific meetings under its umbrella. The first
Queenstown Research Week in 2010 was a huge success with around 700 registrants
in total and over 100 foreign speakers so we are pleased to announce that this
format will continue in 2011. The 2011 meetings will run from Sat
27th August to Friday 2nd September 2011. Queenstown
Research Week will once again incorporate the Queenstown Molecular Biology
meeting and at least 6 associated satellite meetings but 2011 will
have 3 major additions
1.
The NZ Medical Sciences Congress will move from its usual December
time slot to join Queenstown Research Week.
2.
The Australasian Winter Brain meeting will become part of
Queenstown Research week.
3.
The NZ Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will also
have their annual conference in conjunction with the QMB meeting.
Therefore we are
expecting in excess of 1000 registrants this year. Keep up to date at www.queenstownresearchweek.org or Facebook (see below)
Queenstown Research Week 2011
Highlights
Plenary lecturer - 2005 Nobel Laureate Prof Barry Marshall
21st Annual
QMB Meeting
The Queenstown
Molecular Biology (QMB) Meeting will run in the same format as last year as a 2
day general science meeting. This continues to be New Zealand’s
premier molecular bioscience meeting and provide a unique gathering of
high level researchers and companies from New Zealand and overseas. The
meeting is being organised by the NZ Society of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology and will incorporate their annual
meeting. This will run from 29-31 August at Rydges Hotel. (See www.qmb.org.nz.)
2011
Medical Sciences Congress
This in New
Zealand’s premier multi disciplinary medical sciences meeting and incorporates
the meetings of the NZ Society of Physiology, the NZ Perinatal
Society, the NZ Society of Endocrinology and Bioengineering New Zealand.
In recent years the Medsci meeting has been held in December and has attracted
200-300 attendees. Medsci 2011 will run on 29-31 August at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel. (See http://www.medscinz.co.nz/)
29th International
AWCBR
The Australasian
Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR) is New Zealand’s major
neuroscience meeting and has been held in Queenstown since 1983. It
now attracts 150 participants and expects more in 2011 as it
will also be hosting Neuroendocrinology
sessions jointly with MedSci. AWCBR will run at the
Copthorne Hotel from 27th August-31st August. (See www.awcbr.org.)
Satellite
Meetings In addition this year there will be at least 6
satellite meetings each expecting in the vicinity of 100 registrants. These
include;
• Plant Molecular Biology – 28th August to 30th August
• Signal Transduction - 28th August to 30th August
• Heart Disease Research - 28th August to 30th August
• Bioinformatics – 1st and 2nd September
• Developmental Biology –1st and 2nd September
• Epigenetics - 1st and 2nd September
The 2011 QMB epigenetics satellite meeting will be held in conjunction with the bioinformatics and development symposia.The objective of this satellite meeting is bring together international researchers who have interests in how DNA is packaged, modified and adaptive information is inherited in a wide range of model organisms, including plants, yeast, and mammalian cells. The invited speakers include: Professor Andy Choo (Murdoch, Aus.), Professor Andy Feinberg (Johns Hopkins, USA), Professor Rob Martienssen (CSHL, USA), Professor David Tremethick (John Curtin, Aus), Dr Lucia Clemens-Daxinger (QIMR, AUS), Dr Jean Finnegan (CSIRO, Aus) and Dr Clare Stirzaker (GIMR, Aus). This promises to be an exciting meeting in the heart of New Zealand’s premier four season lake and alpine resort.
