The European Science Foundation has announced that the EuroBioForum conference will be held from 17-19 September 2008 in Strasbourg, France.
The event is organised by the European Science Foundation and the European Commission and is an official event of the French presidency of the European Union.
There will be six workshops dedicated to a range of life sciences topics, inlcuding: molecular biology of survival; generating tools for human proteome analysis; DNA barcoding for biodiversity; the human metagenome; human genome profiles in disease; and using bacteria for renewable energy production.
Six high-level research topics will be presented.
Harnessing (cyano-) bacteria for energy production (CyanoBioEnergy), will be presented by Prof Dr Matthias Rogner, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany; metagenomics of the human intestinal tract for health (MetaHIT Health) will be presented by Dr Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France; a European resource of affinity reagents for analysis of the human proteome (EURAFFIN), will be hosted by Dr Michael Taussig, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK; European profiles of structural and sequence variation of the human genome in disease (EUVADIS), will be presented by Prof Xavier Estivill, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona; molecular biology of survival, will be chaired by Prof Jan Hoeijmakers, Department of Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Prof Thomas Kirkwood, director of Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, and Prof Miroslav Radman, Hospital Necker, Inserm, France; and calibrating Europe's biodiversity using DNA barcodes (ECBoL), will be presented by Prof Pedro Crous, CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands.
