Tuesday 23rd October 2007 at the BioPark, Welwyn Garden City

This meeting will bring together experts studying the mechanism of action of IRES elements and their role in translational control of viral and cellular protein synthesis, to review the latest research in this area. In addition, there will also be a focus on the biotechnological exploitation of these elements, for example in gene therapy and protein expression vectors.

Chair: Dr Lisa Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Virology, School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

 

Confirmed Talks include:

 

·         Picornavirus IRES elements; variations on a theme Dr Graham Belsham, National Veterinary Institute, DTU, Denmark

·         The role of RNA structure in picornavirus IRES activity Encarna Martinez Salas, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Madrid, Spain

·         Structural and functional analysis of IRES trans-acting factors Dr Stephen Curry, Imperial College, UK

·         Trans-acting factors of cellular and artificial IRESes Dr Keith Spriggs, Nottingham University, UK

·         Effect of oxidative stress on HCV IRES-mediated and host cell translation Dr Shiu-WanChan, University of Manchester, UK

·         IRES-mediated translational regulation of FGF-1 expression during myogenesis and muscle regeneration Dr Caroline Conte, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France

·         Structural and biochemical studies of the HCV IRES Dr. Peter Lukavsky, MRC LMB, UK

·         Insect virus IRES elements-functional analysis and utility in protein expression systems Dr Lisa Roberts, University of Surrey, UK

 

 

For more information go to http://www.regonline.co.uk/IRES07

We seek CPD accreditation from the IBMS for all our meetings

 

 

IRES: 23 October 2007