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April 14th to 16th, 2008 EMBL- Heidelberg, Germany

Aims:

The European Network of Excellence BioMalPar is organising its fourth annual conference on the Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite.

BioMalPar consists of 47 partner laboratories in 21 institutions from 8 European countries and from 5 malaria endemic countries (Mali, Sudan, Uganda, Nigeria and India).

It also comprises 12 European affiliated partners.

Created in April 2004, BioMalPar was established with the vision of forming a European-wide virtual institute, enhancing cohesion between its component research groups.

The scientific aims of the network are to address, in an integrated, collaborative manner, fundamental questions of the biology of the malaria parasite, its vector, and the disease, allowing optimal exploitation of the resulting knowledge to impact on public health.

BioMalPar places a particular emphasis on its training role, and has established a high profile PhD scholarship.

BioMalPar aims also to ensure a broad dissemination of research results and enhance the public awareness through the implementation of a website www.biomalpar.org, and the organisation of annual conferences, training courses and meetings.

The purpose of the BioMalPar annual conference is to bring together malaria researchers from Europe and overseas (including Africa, America, Asia and Australia) in order to present and share recent groundbreaking findings on fundamental malaria research.

New insights will also be featured through the use of poster sessions.

This meeting will also provide an enriched environment for researchers at all stages of their career to interact with international leaders in the field. The meeting will offer an excellent opportunity for sharing ideas and for potential development of new worldwide collaborations.

Topics

• Development and Gene Regulation
• Functional Cell Biology and Metabolism
• Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Pathogenesis of Malaria
• Immune Response and Defence Mechanisms in the Host and the Vector

Keynote Speakers

Chetan Chitnis, ICGEB, India
Brendan Crabb, WEHI, Australia
Ogabora Doumbo, MRTC/ DEAP, University of Bamako, Mali
Patrick Duffy, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, USA
Michael Good, The Queensland Insitute of Medical Research, Australia
Marcelo Jacobs Lorena, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA Louis Miller, MVDB, NIH, USA
Ken Vernic, Institut Pasteur, France

Scientific Organisers:

Pietro Alano, Istituto Superiore die Sanita, Italy
Chetan Chitnis, ICGEB, India
Didier Fontenille, IRD, France
Artur Scherf, Institut Pasteur , France
Dominique Soldati, Geneva University, Switzerland

Conference Organiser

Bettina Schaefer, EMBL, Germany

Registration

Registration Deadline expired.

Registration types and fees:

For regular participants: 250 EUR

For students: 200 EUR

The total number of participants is limited to 240.

Abstract submission

Please register for the conference before submitting your abstract.
To submit an abstract, please click here.

The organisers will select talks based on the submission of abstracts. Please specify on the online abstract submission form the session in which you would like to present your data. (Poster or oral).

Further Information:

Fourth Annual BioMalPar Conference on the Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite

Web: http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/conf_86

BioMalPar Network

www.biomalpar.org

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