Professor Eleanor Riley (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) will be speaking at EuroSciCon's 'Identifying T Cell Subset Phenotype and Function in Parasite Infections' meeting on March 27^th 2009. Her talk is entitled ‘Regulatory T cell populations in human and murine malaria’. Other eminent scientists will be speaking at this event, including: Professor Janette Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK), Dr Adrian P. Mountford (University of York, UK), Dr. Matthew Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK), Professor Richard Grencis, (University of Manchester, UK), Dr. Marika Kullberg (University of York, UK), Professor Werner Mueller (University of Manchester, UK) and the Chair, Dr Kathryn Else (University of Manchester, UK).

The early registration (reduced price) deadline is January 20^th 2009. Book your place by visiting www.regonline.co.uk/tparasite09 .

Abstracts are welcomed and will be considered for oral presentation. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 10th 2009. Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event. There will be a best poster prize. All accepted abstracts will be published in the meeting proceedings.