Update on BSP Bristol 2013
11 February 2013
We have an exciting list of invited speakers for the 2013 BSP Spring meeting which will be held in Bristol between the 8-11th April.
Confirmed sessions and speakers are
Ecological interactions during infections – Jess Metcalfe
Life histories of hosts and parasites – Ken Wilson
Parasite and host behaviours – Frederick Thomas
Applying ecology and evolution – Angus Buckling
Parasite populations and communities – Andrew Read
Bridging scales in disease ecology – Katrina Lythgoe
Immune responses in an ecological context – Judi Allen
Apicomplexan Genomics – Arnab Pain
Parasite-vector interactions (I & II) – Elena Levashina and Paul Bates
Schistosomes I: Biology – Ron Hokke
Schistosomes II: Elimination of schistosomiasis - fact or fiction? – Steffi Knopp
Helminth neurobiology: Target identification / validation & gene silencing (I & II) – Richard Martin and Thomas Baum
Malaria : Molecular biology & genomics – Mike Blackman
Malaria : Host-Pathogen interface – David Conway
Malaria : Non-falciparum malaria – Ivo Mueller
Malaria : Control strategies – Ken Vernick
Malaria : Epidemiology & elimination – Azra Ghani
Helminth biology (I-III) – Sparky Lok, Karl Hoffmann, Amy Buck
Helminth immunology (I-III) – Richard Grencis, Andrew MacDonald, Mark Wilson
Fish parasitology : ecology & evolution – Iain Barber
Fish parasitology – Beth Okamura
Parasites and food security – Julie Fitzpatrick
Veterinary Parasitology : Co-infections - cross pathogen influence – Diana Williams
Veterinary Parasitology : Stop right there! Mass treatment programmes - lessons from veterinary parasitology – Ray Kaplan
Leishmania and trypanosomes : in the field and in the clinic – Pascale Kropf
Imaging in protozoan parasites and their hosts – Michael Lewis
Metabolomics and proteomics - Jasmina Saric
Public Engagement : How to do it - Tansy Hammarton
GeneDB will run a drop-in clinic throughout the meeting.
The Plenary session will be a debate between Andrew Read (Penn State), Alan Fenwick (Imperial) and the bioethicist James Wilson (UCL), on balancing short-term benefits of anti-parasite treatment with the longer term evolutionary consequences.
Please see the website for further invited speakers and themes of this vibrant Bristol meeting, and of course, for registration and abstract submission
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