Events
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Spring Meeting 2010
30th March - 1st April 2010
The Spring Meeting 2010 will be held at Cardiff University on 30th March - 1st April 2010.
Deadline for Abstract Submission Extended to 5th February 2010
March 30th - April 1st (registration on Monday 29th March)
After 47 years, we are delighted to welcome the BSP back to Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. The conference will be based at Cardiff University (www.cf.ac.uk) located in and around the Portland stone buildings, parks and tree-lined avenues that form Cardiff’s magnificent civic centre.
Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital but has a history dating back to the Romans. Cardiff Castle (www.cardiffcastle.com) is just 10 minutes walk from the University and the National Museum of Wales (www.museumwales.ac.uk) is literally next door to one of the three Biology Buildings. Slightly further a field is the much admired Millennium Stadium, and a short bus ride will take you to the famous Tiger Bay docklands. This area has recently been transformed into Cardiff Bay; host to the National Assembly for Wales and the iconic Welsh Opera House (underneath which is the Torchwood centre for those of you interested in Sci-fi. Who knows, if you are really lucky you might even catch filming of the latest Dr Who episode). With a population of just 327,500 (and more parks than any other European city), Cardiff is by no means a crowded city but there is still a vibrant night life to be experienced.
In addition to the usual Malaria sessions and the biennial Trypanosomiasis & Leishmaniasis Seminar, we will have a special focus on ecological and evolutionary parasitology. Topics will cover wildlife disease, veterinary parasitology, impact of parasites on host behaviour and co-infection biology, to name but a few. Retiring parasitologist, Prof. Richard Tinsley has also agreed to convene a session on host-parasite co-evolution. If you have any suggestions for specific sessions, particularly those with a multidisciplinary theme, please do not hesitate to contact us (cablej@cf.ac.uk and lelloj@cf.ac.uk).
Cardiff is an extremely accessible city (2 hour from Paddington by train and with frequent bus/taxi services to the local airport; www.tbicardiffairport.com/en/). This year we will have the registration/welcome reception on Monday evening to avoid potential problems with the increased costs and reduced accessibility of Sunday train/air services.
Registration and Abstract submission for the conference are now open.
Accommodation
Delegates are requested to organise their own accommodation. The BSP has teamed up with an online company to offer a one-stop accommodation service. The link below will take you a website with various options ranging from £18.50 to £140 per night. You are of course free to find accommodation independently if you so wish.
Accommodation options in Cardiff
Resources (right-click to download)
bsp2010_spring_meeting_draft_programme.pdf
Registration
Please note: there is a £30.00 Late Registration Fee
Spring Meeting 2010
30th March - 1st April 2010
Deadline for Abstract Submission Extended to 5th February 2010
Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Seminar 2010
30th March - 1st April 2010
The biennual Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Seminar will take place in Cardiff over the period 30th March to April 1st 2010, with registration on Monday 29th March.
The programme for the Seminar is currently being drawn up (for more information see poster, linked below), it is envisaged that it will not differ greatly from the previous highly successful Seminar in Newcastle in 2008 and also draw on the Woods Hole Kinetoplastid Meeting in 2009. The Seminar organisers for 2010 will be Graham Coombs (graham.coombs@strath.ac.uk) and Karen Grant (k.grant1@lancaster.ac.uk). Please contact them with any suggestions for special sessions or any other aspect of the meeting.
The Seminar will run in parallel with the BSP Spring Meeting (see its web-page on this web-site) Registration and Abstract submission procedures are being shared with the Spring Meeting.
