The 11th issue of News from the Biological Stain Commission (BSC) provides our first impressions of the REACH and ECHA programs. We intend to give a more thorough account of what these important programs actually mean in later editions of News from the Biological Stain Commission. Under the heading of ...

The second Annual Meeting of the UK Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine Network was held on 28 September 2011 at The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. The meeting preceded the annual Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine conference, which was held over the subsequent ...

The Boston Society hosted the 7th Applied Pharmaceutical Analysis (APA) conference in Cambridge (MA, USA) from September 12th to 14th 2011. The overarching theme for this year's meeting was 'Smaller and Smarter' covering a variety of topics on how qualitative and quantitative analysts are creatively using novel and emerging techniques ...

The British Journal of Hospital Medicine is pleased to publish the following winning (Gandhi and Wijesinghe) and second place (Chong et al) abstracts which were presented at the Trauma 2011 conference, Imperial College London on 19-20 November 2011.

Interest in the brain's circulation dates back more than a century and has been steadily growing. Quantitative methods for measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and energy metabolism became available in the middle of the 20th century and gave a new boost to the research. Scientific meetings dealing with CBF ...

From June 22-25, 2011 the ILTS held its yearly meeting as a joint conference with ELITA and LICAGE at the Valencia Congress Centre in Valencia, Spain. Nearly 1500 registrants attended the meeting which opened with a pre-meeting conference entitled "Global Challenges and Controversies in Liver Transplantation", followed by numerous oral ...

The 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Experimental Hematology and Stem Cells was held in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, and was chaired by David Scadden, Gerald de Haan and Peter Lansdorp. Topics such as hematopoietic stem cell biology, development, aging, microenvironment, signaling, genomics and transcriptional control in the ...

Abstract On 7-9 April 2011 the 6th EQuiP Invitational Conference took place in Copenhagen. Key note lectures were delivered by Professor Frede Olesen (Denmark), Professor Andreas Christian Soennichsen (Austria), Professor Martin Roland (UK) and Professor Richard Roberts (US), and a key note panel discussion was held on the pros and ...

Once again the impressive 18th Century Ardgour House, located in the stunning highland scenery of Fort William, Scotland, hosted the annual Exploratory Measurement Science Group Ardgour Symposium. The 5 day meeting, now in its 8th year, is organized to bring together a diverse international group of young and established scientists, ...

This study assesses interest in international volunteer work by members of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) and attempts to identify demographics, motivations, obstacles, and institutional issues of the respondents. An online survey service was used to send a 25-question survey to all APSA members with email addresses in November ...

The 19th International Reid Bioanalytical Forum was attended by over 120 participants. The Forum divided into approximately eight broad topics, although not always in the same session. The meeting commenced with a discussion on metabolites in safety testing, with emphasis on enabling technologies and philosophies. This was followed by a ...

The 19th International Reid Bioanalytical Forum was held in July 2011 in the UK. This open forum was an ideal meeting for extensive discussions on topics, such as global harmonization of bioanalytical guidance, in both formal and informal settings. Indeed, this meeting is well-known for its numerous networking opportunities during ...

The 3rd Global CRO Council Closed Forum was held on the 3rd and 4th July 2011 in Guildford, United Kingdom, in conjunction with the 19th International Reid Bioanalytical Forum. In attendance were 21 senior-level representatives from 19 CROs on behalf of nine European countries and, for many of the attendees, ...

ABSTRACT: A report on the meeting Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms: understanding the complexity of diversity. Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain. October 15-20, 2011.

This submission is just the introductory piece for the special issue. It does not seem that an abstract is warranted.

This meeting was a special symposium sponsored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The conference was held in Gangzhou, China on 24-26 July 2011 and shared a venue with the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America Thirteenth International Symposium. Over 150 participants from the Americas, Europe, Asia ...

An international collaborative study has been organised by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) to establish the World Health Organization (WHO) 2nd International Standard (IS) for Vancomycin. Twelve laboratories from 10 different countries participated. The potency of the candidate material, a freeze-dried preparation, was estimated ...

We are delighted to announce the programme for the 2012 JWC annual conference, which will take place in London on Friday 23 March. Following consultation with tissue viability specialists in the UK, it soon became apparent that there is a strong need for update on new developments in government policy ...

ABSTRACT: The June 2011 15th International Conference on Human Retrovirology: HTLV and Related Viruses marks approximately 30 years since the discovery of HTLV-1. As anticipated a large number of abstracts were submitted and presented by scientists new and old to the field of retrovirology from all five continents. The aim ...

This University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy bioanalytical conference is presented each year by the Extension Services in Pharmacy, the professional development department within the school. The purpose of this 4-day conference is to provide an educational forum to discuss issues and applications associated with the analysis of xenobiotics, metabolites, ...

Paris, known as the city of light or the illuminated city, is, thus, an appropriate site for a major international conference in which advances in research and new findings and observations are reported and discussed, as was the case during this year's European Society of Cardiology meeting. Indeed, not only ...

During the first Congress of the Italian University Schools of Oral Surgery, held in Rome on 18-20th February, 2010, a task force was convened by the Italian Society of Odontostomatological Surgery (SIdCO) to summarize the data collected from the current literature on selected aspects relating to the mandibular third molar ...

The meeting 'Cell signal-omics 2011: integrated cellular pathology - systems biology of human disease' held on 26-28 January 2011 in Luxembourg, was organized by Recherches Scientifiques Luxembourg (RSL) under the auspices of the European Research Institute for Integrated Cellular Pathology. The meeting took place in the New Conference Center Kirchberg ...

The challenges faced by states seeking to implement Environmental Remediation works are many. To this end, the International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to provide assistance and guidance to Member States wherever possible. This review article provides a brief overview of these challenges and highlights the international sources of financial and ...

Morbidity and mortality (M&M) conferences run the gamut from heated adversarial affairs seen in traditional surgery departments, to more passive versions often seen in radiology departments. If done well, not only can M&M conferences have great utility as a resident training tool, but they also can be a vehicle for ...

The 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology provided an excellent platform for basic and clinical scientists to brainstorm on current reproductive health issues such as repeated implantation and pregnancy failure, preterm birth, preeclampsia and genital tract infections such as HIV. The goal of the meeting was ...

The sixth IPC was held in Košice; a nicely restored medieval city in eastern Slovakia. From being a Eastern-European-dominated probiotics conference in the year 2000, the IPC has grown over the years into a truly international conference, mainly on probiotics, but also increasingly prebiotics and the intestinal microbiota. The conference ...

The joint meeting of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics and the 10th European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics took place in Edinburgh from August 9-12, 2010. The conference was attended by 390 delegates from more than 40 different countries. There were 4 plenary ...

The American Society For MS annual conference, the largest meeting for the MS-related topics, has welcomed its 59th birthday. The conference was well attended (over 6600 attendees) from academy, government and industry. In addition to 336 oral presentations from 56 sessions, 2820 posters were presented. Preceding the main conference, tutorial ...

The International Conference on Boar Semen Preservation (ICBSP) has been in existence for 25 years. During that time, six conferences have been held in Europe and North America. Each conference has sought to communicate research advances in pig semen technology and artificial insemination (AI). Clearly, the conference has been a ...

Internal autopsies are invasive and result in the mutilation of the deceased person's body. They are expensive and pose occupational health and safety risks. Accordingly, they should only be done for good cause. However, until recently, "full" internal autopsies have usually been undertaken in most coroners' cases. There is a ...

This is a report of the First International Symposium on Ranaviruses held on July 8, 2011 in conjunction with the annual Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The emerging threat of ranavirus infectious diseases to the global biodiversity of ectothermic vertebrates was addressed by 23 ...

There are currently few clinical strategies in place, which provide effective neuroprotection and repair, despite an intense international effort over the past decades. One possible explanation for this is that a deeper understanding is required of how endogenous mechanisms act to confer neuroprotection. This mini-review reports the proceedings of a ...

ABSTRACT: A report on the joint 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)/10th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) meetings and the 7th International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 15-19 July 2011.

ABSTRACT. Sorosphaerula nom. n. is introduced to replace the phytomyxean generic name Sorosphaera J. Schröter, which is preoccupied by the foraminiferan genus Sorosphaera Brady. As it is agreed now that both the Foraminifera and the Phytomyxea belong to the Rhizaria, this homonomy within the same supergroup of eukaryotes needs to ...

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists is a dynamic international forum for the exchange of knowledge among scientists to enhance their contributions to drug development. The annual National Biotechnology Conference, conducted and organized by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, is a forum dedicated to advancements in science and technology ...

The Society for General Microbiology (SGM) Spring Conference covers a range of topics of microbiology and comprises mixed sessions including symposia, workshops, debates, offered papers and invited presentations from international experts. This year the SGM Conference was held 11-14 April 2011 at the Harrogate Conference Centre in Harrogate, Yorkshire (UK). ...

From Appia's writings we compose a view on his contribution to international medical relief in warfare, to the establishment of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention, and to surgical procedures on the battlefield. Much information comes from his work on the Battle of San Martino e Solferino in June ...

To cite this article: Hubbard AR, Hamill M, Beeharry M, Bevan SA, Heath AB, on behalf of the SSC sub-committee on von Willebrand factor of ISTH. Value assignment of the WHO 2nd International Standard von Willebrand factor, concentrate (09/182). J Thromb Haemost 2011; 9: 1638-40.DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04365.x.

In recognition of Canada's longstanding interest in epigenetics - and a particular linguistic interjection - the inaugural 'Epigenetics, Eh!' conference was held between 4-7 May 2011 in London, Ontario. The meeting struck an excellent balance between Canadian and international leaders in epigenetic research while also providing a venue to showcase ...

Hermanussen M, Aßmann C, Wöhling H, Zabransky M. Harmonizing national growth references for multi-centre surveys, drug monitoring, and international postmarketing surveillance. Aim:  National European growth references differ. We aimed to convert (harmonize) currently used charts into a single unified interchangeable LMS format for each European nation. Methods:  Nine currently used ...

This Special Issue of the Journal of Andrology consists of the Proceedings of the "Fifth International Conference on the Epididymis (Epididymis V)", which took place October 25-28, 2010, in Águas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil. Based upon the central theme "Epididymis: Present Progress, Future Directions", peer-reviewed papers from 18 ...

ABSTRACT: The 2011 Australasian Podiatry Council conference was held from April 26 to 29 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This commentary provides a brief overview of the conference, including the speakers and topic areas covered, selected original research highlights, and award winning presentations.

ABSTRACT: The conference "Neuroscience and Pragmatism: Productive Prospects" was held on June 10, 2011 at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia.

Founded in 1919, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was successor to the International Association of Chemical Societies (IACS), which had been founded eight years earlier at the initiative of Albin Haller. The statutes of the IUPAC (like those of the IACS) were written in French, and ...

The article looks at transnational dynamics in lesbian activism in the Western Balkans, with particular focus on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, over the last two decades. Based on 30 interviews with activists from local and international feminist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), and queer organizations, the article discusses ...

The beautiful resort island of Awaji, Japan was recently host to an international gathering of scientists interested in the physical, biochemical and biological aspects of components of the eukaryotic cell nucleus. The meeting featured speakers from many centers of research excellence in Japan as well as from around the world and was characterized by ...

The 2011 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, attracted nearly 1,200 attendees to the Broadmoor Hotel from 2-6 April 2011, not to mention the satellite meetings on cognition and the schizophrenia prodrome. With the gracious assistance of Congress directors Carol Tamminga and Chuck Schulz, as well ...

The third International Symposium on Angiostrongylus and Angiostrongyliasis was held April 8-9, 2010, at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-nine researchers from 7 countries attended the symposium. The symposium's theme was "Advances in the disease, control, diagnosis and molecular genetics of the genus Angiostrongylus and ...

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