EuroSciCon will hold a meeting on 'Toll-like receptors - investigating innate immunity and infection' on 25 September 2007 at BioPark, Broadwater Road, Welwyn Garden City UK
"The innate immune system employs pattern recognition receptors in order to identify pathogen associated motifs or signatures.
"The main family of pattern recognition receptors are the Toll-like receptor family.
"Members of the TLR family are able to sense a wide range of motifs and trigger innate immune responses.
"The meeting will bring together experts in the field of innate immunity covering different members of the TLR family as well as different microbial ligands" says Shara Cohen, managing director of EuroSciCon.
This meeting is being chaired by Martha Triantafilou and Kathy Triantafilou (University of Sussex, UK) and will feature talks by Professor Neil Gow (University of Aberdeen, UK), Nicholas Gay (University of Cambridge, UK), Peter Morley (GlaxoSmithKline R+D, Stevenage, UK), Sandra Diebold (Kings College, London, UK), Nino Porakishvili (University of Westminster, UK), Professor Dirk Werling (Royal Veterinary College, UK), Michael Carty (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Professor Hermann Wagner (Institut fur Med Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Germany).
EuroSciCon says it welcomes abstracts for this meeting.
These will be accepted for poster and oral presentations and will also be published in the proceedings.
There will be a prize for the best poster.
