The 3rd CLSS-UK North Britain Life Science Symposium

Second announcement

Saturday, 5th June 2010, University of Dundee, Dundee

                      

Date: Saturday, 5th June 2010

Venue: Baxter 1.36, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN

Organizer: Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK (CLSS-UK, http://www.clss.org.uk )

Contact: r.zhang@dundee.ac.uk

Welcome

CLSS-UK is one of the earliest and biggest professional societies for overseas Chinese in the UK aiming at providing a platform for its members to exchange information, share experience, collaborate with each other and contribute to the life science development in China. To promote activities in the north area and improve our participation to the CLSS events, since 2008, CLSS-UK started to organize local meetings in North UK. The 1st and 2nd symposiums were successfully held in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2008 and 2009, the 3rd annual CLSS-UK North Britain Life Science Symposium is coming to Dundee this June in 2010.

The objective is to facilitate the communication and collaboration among Chinese life scientists in the UK and China. To highlight the multidisciplinary research nature in life sciences, this year we invite brief scientific abstracts and talks from as many areas as from Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, proteomics as well as Mathematics modeling of biological systems, and so on. The Symposium is free of charge for registration and we will provide lunch for registered participants. Travel bursaries will be available to support travel costs for participants outside Dundee on a first-come-first-serve basis until the allocated fund is exhausted.

Dundee has been called City of Discovery in honor of Dundee's history of scientific activities. Based on the Thomson Scientific Index of citations, the University of Dundee is ranked as one of the top 5 European Universities for Excellence in Research in Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics. With rich history and strong background in life science Dundee welcome you here for a fruitful and successful meeting in July 2010.

Venue maps and information on Getting to University of Dundee: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/general/travel/

Local Organizing Committee

Academic Programs

10:30-11:00 Registration

11:00-12:00 Welcome & Introductions: Round Table Self-introduction

Session I Genetics & Genomics

12:00-12:25 PTEN Depletion Rescues the ß-Actin Deficit in Axonal Growth Cones in Motoneurons from a Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Ke Ning, University of Sheffield.

12:25-12:45 Technologies to identify Melatonin regulated genes in the Sheep Pars Tuberalis using Next Generation Transcriptome Sequencing, Le Yu, University of Edinburgh.

12:45-12:55 Point mutations in GLI3 gene of two Chinese patients with congenital limb malformation, Yaran Wen, University of Dundee.

12:55-14:00 Lunch break/Poster Session

Session II

14:00-14:40 Systems Biology

14:00-14:20 Engineering Analysis Methods in Understanding Biological Systems, Hong Yue, Strathclyde University.

14:20-14:40 A Systems Biology analysis of osmotic stress responses in Candida glabrata and Candida albicans reveals key differences in their HOG signalling networks, Tao You, University of Aberdeen.

14:40-14:50 Computational Psychology

14:40-14:50 Increase Happiness level by emotional contagion in social networks, Di Wang, University of Manchester.

14:50-15:10 Bioinformatics

14:50-15:00 EXTENSION OF EDINBURGH HUMAN METABOLIC NETWORK: A FULLY SUB-CELLULAR LOCALIZED GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC NETWORK, Tong Hao, University of Edinburgh.

15:00-15:10 Comparison and Evaluation of Five Automated Annotation Services, Zhe Liu, University of Edinburgh.

15:10-15:30 Coffee/Tea break/Poster Session

Session III

15:30-15:50 Bio- & Environmental engineering

15:30-15:35 UVO Processing of Polystyrene Surface and Its Effect on Albumin Adsorption: A XPS Study, Chaozong Liu, The Robert Gordon University.

15:30-15:40 Mechanical characterisation of a skin model by laser induced surface acoustic waves, Sinan Li, University of Dundee.

15:40-15:45 Synapse transmission, Zhijun Yang, University of Edinburgh.

15:45-15:50 生态环境友好(绿色)油田化学品的判据, Wei Wang, CHAMPION TECHNOLOGIES LTD

15:50-16:30 Networking/Poster Session

16:30 Close & Social activities (own expenses)

Acknowledgement

This Symposium is generously supported by The Education Section of the Chinese Embassy in the UK and our CLSS-UK partners, including Anachem, AbD seroTec, Cancer Research UK, Fermentas, GSK, Invitrogen, Insight Biotechnology, Peprotech, Promega, Suzhou BioBay, Suzhou GenePharma, Tebu-bio and VWR

Download Full text of this announcement and conference programme here (pdf, 125KB) and academic programs here (pdf, 30KB)