Earlybird registration deadline: 15 November 2008
Online registration for the Symposium is now closed. If you wish to attend, please come to the registration desk at Robinson College on Monday 15 December to fill in a registration form. Please note that accommodation can not be guaranteed.
Abstract submission deadline: 13 October 2008
Abstract submission is now closed.
There are Student Travel Grants available for this meeting.
Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly young researchers, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.
New England Biolabs Poster Prize
New England Biolabs are pleased to sponsor a Postgraduate Poster Prize Award, to be presented to the best poster displayed at the meeting.
The Biochemical Journal Poster Prize
The Biochemical Journal is kindly sponsoring a Young Investigator Award to be presented for the best poster displayed at the meeting. The winner will receive a host of Biochemical Journal goodies and a cheque for 250.
The proceedings of the meeting will be published as a stand-alone issue of Biochemical Society Transactions (online and in print) and a stand-alone volume of the online Symposia Series.
All cells contain a diverse range of repair pathways that have evolved to optimize their survival following damage to their DNA. These pathways involve the actions of a large number of DNA repair proteins to remove the damage and maintain genome stability. Clearly, when these processes do not function correctly, a likely result will be instability of the genome. A large body of experimental data has demonstrated that such genetic instability can cause a wide variety of human diseases. This meeting will highlight recent major advances in understanding biochemical details about how DNA repair intersects with cellular pathways that lead to cancer or ageing. The meeting is particularly timely since it is now apparent that these biochemical processes offer significant potential for novel therapies to treat diseases such as cancer.
One reason why there has been such rapid recent progress in this research area is that excellent model systems are available to study DNA repair. These range from in vivo prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, to high-resolution structural analysis of macromolecular complexes that are influenced by protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions. To highlight the significance of these diverse systems and to assist in stimulating further interactions between this varied group of researchers, speakers will be included from all areas. Each day of the meeting will have at least 1 plenary lecture to be given by one of the Biochemical Society Awards winners for 2008. In addition to the invited lectures, there will be the opportunity to present posters. All attendees of the meeting will be invited to submit an abstract to report on their research and, in each session of the meeting, some submitted abstracts will be selected for short (15 minutes) oral presentations.
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