DIABETES AND PREGNANCY 2011

Diabetes & Pregnancy Meeting Salzburg, Austria March 24-26, 2011

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The 6th International Symposium on Diabetes & Pregnancy (DIP) Salzburg, Austria March 24-26, 2011

The field of diabetes and pregnancy has come of age. From the conception of the terminology ‘gestational diabetes’ and ‘diabetes in pregnancy’ to the creation of an entire subspecialty, this Symposium documents the ‘gestation’ of the field.
This Symposium not only documents the past 80+ years of progress in the field of diabetes and pregnancy, but also presents the most up-to-date tools, techniques and management protocols to ensure the optimal outcome of pregnancies complicated by diabetes. In addition, the areas that remain controversial, such as screening and diagnosis, will be discussed in detail to enable participants to come to an opinion while waiting for the evidence to validate many of the expert opinions presented.
The latest theories and literature on the immunology of Type 1 diabetes will also be included, giving us hope that the near future holds the answers to prevention of this disease. Until there is a cure for diabetes, we must continually take on the weight of astutely diagnosing diabetes and treating all pregnant women who are at risk of an untoward outcome of pregnancy.
The faculty is comprised of renowned professionals and practitioners, who will present based on evidence as well as clinical experience.
In addition, this Symposium provides an international approach to enhancing the quality of care for women with diabetes in pregnancy, and answers for the clinician to enable delivery of optimal care for all pregnancies complicated by diabetes.

The UN has designated 2010 the 'International Year of Biodiversity’. To mark and celebrate this, the Society of Biology is organising a photographic competition. Entrants may submit one image per category. Entrants are free to interpret how they capture photographically images that celebrate, explore, comment on or reveal aspects of biodiversity from around the world.

Categories

• Land – biodiversity associated with land
• Air – biodiversity associated with the air
• Water – biodiversity associated with water
• Close up – biodiversity unseen by the naked eye

Prizes

• Best in Show – £1,000
• 1st prizes in each category – £250 in cash and Park Cameras vouchers
• Top Young Photographer winner – £250 worth of vouchers
• There will be additional prizes for runners up and certificates for ‘highly commended’ entries

The competition is free, open to all and will run between 20 April - 20 August 2010. Please review the competition rules before entering, details of the rules and entry forms are located to the right. Please contact photocomp@societyofbiology.org with any questions

Annual Symposium - Recent advances in membrane biochemistry

5—7 January 2011

Robinson College, Cambridge, UK

Earlybird registration deadline: 3 December 2010.

Registration will be available shortly.

Abstract submission deadline: 26 October 2010.

Abstract submission will be available shortly.

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.

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.

Symposium background
This symposium will highlight some of the recent advances in molecular membrane biochemistry. Membrane biology underpins a vast array of life processes such as bioenergetics, signalling and transport. In the last few years advances in this field has led to the development of large scale expression and purification of mammalian transmembrane proteins. This has then been paramount to enabling efficient crystallization and elucidation of the 3-dimensional structures of transmembrane proteins to occur.

In addition, other biophysical techniques have also been employed to further understand membrane protein structure, conformations, and interactions with other membrane components.

This symposia will focus on a number of key areas of current research advances, which will form the basis of 5 sessions:

1) Membrane protein expression and 3-dimensional structural analysis.

2) Examples of expression / structure analysis of membrane proteins which are of current interest.

3) Computer modelling of membrane protein structure, membrane protein folding and dynamics.

4) Lipid-protein interactions.

5) Membrane proteins in disease.