Venue: Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

With presentations from leading lights in the field including Kazutoshi Takahashi / Ian Chambers / Jose Silva / Petra Hajkova / Phillipe Collas / Andrew Johnson / Hans Scholer and Craig Taylor this promises to be an informative meeting.

For more information and to register, visit the SSCN website.

Select Biosciences’ inaugural Stem Cells Europe conference and exhibition will be held in Amsterdam.

Keynote Speakers: 
Stephen Minger, Director, Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, King's College
Bernard Siegel, Director, Genetics Policy Institute
Ian Wilmut, Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Agenda Topics:

Research Track

The ISCTEurope2008 program is attractive for (translational) researchers, laboratory practitioners and clinicians working in the field of “Cellular Therapy”. One of the focuses will be future EU-funding of Cell Therapy Projects. For more information on preliminary program, abstract submission and registration please visit: http://www.iscteurope2008.org/

Of note: the abstract deadline for both oral and poster presentations is June 23, 2008.

Cor Lamers, PhD, ISCT Europe 2008 (chair)

World Stem Cellⁱ Summit

Alliant Energy Center, Madison Wisconsin

September 22-23, 2008

Lund, Sweden: 2-3 October 2008

The main focus of this workshop will be on ethical aspects of interspecies embryo research. Scientific, ethical and regulatory
aspects will be discussed. Why do scientists want to carry out such research? Are there important distinctions between different types of inter-species embryos? What ethical concerns does such research raise? How should these concerns be addressed and dealt with?

The Consortium of European project PROUST: the Temporal Dimension in Functional Genomics, is pleased to announce “GENES AT WORK ON TIME” at the ILO Training Centre, Turin, October 15-18, 2008

Posters submissions are welcome up to June 30. The ideas discussed during the conference, including those coming from the most relevant poster presentations, will be conveyed into a "position paper" suggesting priorities for future European Research.

For agenda and registration see http://regmedro.med.uni-rostock.de/ or contact Mr Jan Burmeister, Fon +49 381 494 4738, rmr*at*med.uni-rostock.de

Location

Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh

Guest speakers

• Alan Ashworth, London
• Adrian Bird, Edinburgh
• Margaret Buckingham, Paris
• Ian Chambers, Edinburgh
• Tariq Enver, Oxford
• Stuart Forbes, Edinburgh
• Cay Kielty, Manchester
• Ron McKay, Bethesda USA
• Alexander Medvinsky, Edinburgh
• Brendon Noble, Edinburgh
• Nick Wright, London

Keynote Speaker

Irving L. Weissman, Stanford

BIT Life Sciences' 1st Annual World Congress of Regenerative Medicine ⁱ& Stem Cellⁱ, 2008
Theme: Re-creation of Life, Reconstruction of Happiness Congress
Dates: December 2-4, 2008.
Venue: Novotel Baiyun Airport Hotel, Guangzhou, China
Website: http://www.bitlifesciences.com/rmsc2008/  

Saariselka (Near Ivalo Airport), Lapland, Finland

Participants
Pre- and post-doctoral scientists as well as technical staff. Roughly half of the 50 expected participants will be from outside ESTOOLS consortium's research units. It will provide intensive training in key aspects of embryonic stem cellⁱ biology.