It is now well established that the focused one day life science events that are organised by Euroscicon attract speakers of international respect from around the globe. Furthermore the mixture of delegates from academia and industry allows for lively debate both during meetings and in the well organised breaks. Euroscicon are now making efforts to extend the range of delegates by introducing incentives for junior members of the scientific community to attend.   more »

Dr. Catherine Derry introduced and chaired this meeting which was held at Hertfordshire Biopark. Its aim was to provide evolving knowledge facilitate their T cell subset characterisation. Professor Adrian Hayday (King’s College London, UK) identified critical roles for gamma-delta T cells in protection, regulation, pathogenesis and therapy. Immunoregulation mediated by CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) was the focus of Dr Jian-Guo Chai’s (Imperial College, UK) talk. He presented key findings on tracking the interplay between antigen-specific naïve and regulatory T cells in vivo. Exploitation of Treg-mediated immunosuppression to control organ rejection in transplantation was proposed by Dr Giovanni Lombardi (King’s College London, UK). She suggested the use of adoptive cell therapy with “customised” antigen-specific Treg to do this. A failure of immunoregulation in pre-eclampsia during pregnancy was discussed by Professor Ian Sargent (University of Oxford, UK) who challenged the normal view of reproductive immunology.   more »

Adding to their collection of meeting proceedings, EuroSciCon have now produced a book of proceedings for their recent 'NO news is good news - Detection, Measurements and Quantification of Nitric Oxide: Tools for NO Research' meeting. Order a copy here   more »