Bacteriophages 2015

This event will discuss the many roles of bacteriophages, ranging from fundamental biological research to their use in medical and industrial biotechnologies. Topics will include uses of phages for therapeutics, food manufacture, delivery vectors, drivers of microbiota structure reporters of microbiome diversity, and their role on the environment

This event has CPD accreditation

This event has an open oral and poster session. Abstracts can be submitted on any subject related to Bacteriophages

The Deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentation is Oct10th 2014

Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event

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You can download the instructions for authors at www.euroscicon.com/ABSTRACTSUBMISSIONS.pdf

Talks include

European Implementation of Bacteriophage Therapy: Impact of Medicinal Product Legislation on Tailored Hospital Care

Gilbert Verbeken, Human Cell- and Tissue Banks, Brussels, Belguim

Regulation of replication of Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages

Professor Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland

Bacteriophages for healthy living

Dr Alexander Sulakvelidze, Intralytix, Inc, Baltimore, USA

Phage recombination

Dr Gary Sharples, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, UK

Talk title to be confirmed

Prof. Dr. Martin J. Loessner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, Zurich, Switzerland

Confirmed Speakers Include

Professor Stephane Evoy, University of Alberta, Canada

Professor Louise Temple, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA