First Announcement of The 16th Meeting of the CLSS-UK

The 16th Meeting of Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK

London, September 11-12, 2010

On behalf of Dr. Xiong Zhong Ruan, Chairman of Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK (CLSS-UK), I am writing to invite you to participate the 16th annual Meeting of the CLSS-UK held in Imperial College, London on 11th-12th September, 2010. Also I invite you to submit abstracts and to attend the meeting for making the great success of CLSS-UK annual meeting of 2010.

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for Chinese life scientists in UK to exchange ideas, to share experience and to establish collaborations within the UK and China. I believe that the meeting will strengthen the academic bridge linking among the UK universities and foster mutually-beneficial relationships among the audience and the speakers.

We are planning to invite renowned professors and senior scientists from UK, USA and China to give lectures in this meeting. The organising committee members are already working together to ensure a wide variety of lectures to be given to cover the various scientific areas of Life Science and Medicine. We particularly encourage young investigators and PhD students to join the meeting by offering a number of travel grants and prizes for the best oral and poster presentations.

It is my great pleasure to introduce Imperial College for those of you who don't know much about her. Imperial College London is a unique University in that it specialises in science, technology and medicine. Its research levels place it among the top three universities in the United Kingdom and is in the fifth position in the world as ranked by the Times Higher last year.

We are working on scientific program now which will be released in the second announcement of this conference.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Imperial College London in this September.

Prof. Qingbo Xu	Prof. Mingqing Du	Prof. Yongqiang Ke
Prof. Xin Lu	Prof. Zhanfeng Cui	Prof. Zihe Rao
Dr. Wei Wang	Dr. Hanglong Hu	Prof. Wen Wang
Dr. Mingqiang Zhang	Dr. Qihe Xu	Dr. Ming Lei
Dr. Xin Fang	Dr. Xiongzhong Ruan	Dr. Zhidao Xia
Dr. LI Xiaopeng	Dr. Shaobo Zhou	Dr. Henglong Hu
Dr. Xuebin Dong	Dr. Honglei Huang	Dr. Hongwei Zhang
Dr. Weiguang Wang	Dr Shijie Cai	Dr. Youli Hu
Dr. Dan Jiang	Dr. Hongxiang Liu	Dr. Hongwu Ma
Dr. Shiyu Yang	Dr. Bingmei Yang	Dr. Hua Ye
Dr. Bin Yu	Dr. Yuansong Yu	Dr. Zhongping Yao
Dr. Shaoan Xue	Dr. Xiaobin Zhao	Dr. Hongtao Guan
Dr. Daqing Ma	Dr. Yinbiao Sun

Sponsored by:

The Education Section of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, The Science & Technology Section of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, Imperial College London,GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Insight Biotechnology, Cancer Research UK,Bio Bay Shuzhou,Gene Pharma, AbD Serotec, Fermentas, Peprotech, Anachem, Invitrogen, Promega, Tebu-bio and VWR.

Categories:

Molecular Biology and Cell Biology,Genomics and Proteomics, Physiology, Pharmacology, Immunology/Virology/Inflammation, Biophysics and Imaging, Biochemistry, Bio-technology,Cancer Research,Cardiovascular Bioscience Metabolic Disease,Neurosciences, Infectious disease,Translational Medicine and Clinical Science

Abstract guidelines:

v Abstract must be in English. Please type your abstract in Times New Roman, Font 12, using Microsoft Word and save it in MS word format.

v Title should be concise and typed in capital bold letters.

v Presenting authors should be underlined. Please provide FIRST NAME in full, followed by the LAST NAME for all authors. The telephone number and e-mail address of the presenting author must be included. Leave a line space between title and authors.

v List department, institution, city of the authors. Leave a line space between affiliation and main body of abstract.

v The abstract should be single-spaced, typed in lower case and the main text should not exceed 400 words. The content should include: OBJECTIVE, METHODS, RESULTS, and CONCLUSIONS. The use of tables or figures is not recommended.

Note: The abstracts (e-version) must be sent to icsm2010@clss.org.uk before the 1st September 2010.

Registration

Since CLSS-UK runs as a charity with a very limited budget, we require a voluntary registration fee (in different levels) to cover some cost of the meeting and to provide travel grants to some of young students and scientists. In any case, we would thank you for your kind support for our society.

Voluntary registration fee:

1^st category: £50; 2^nd category: £10

Note: You can find a suitable payment method described in the Registration Form. The e-version of Registration form should be sent to: icsm2010@clss.org.uk before the 1st September 2010

Accommodation

We are not going to cover the accommodation since the limit of budget. However, we will provide all necessary information and service for all attendants. If you need to book an accommodation, please tick the proper box in the registration form.

Yong Investigator award

We will support up to 5 prizes for the best oral and poster presentations.

Travel Grants

In order to encourage young Chinese life scientists (including PhD students) to attend the conference, the organizing committee will provide travel grants for some young investigators. Please tick the proper box in the registration form if you would apply a travel grant.