A one-day meeting on 2nd May 2008

 The Biopark Hertfordshire

 

 

Culturing mammalian cells in the laboratory enables biotechnologists to investigate the activity of cells, model and evaluate biological pathways, test drugs and allow the development of new therapeutic approaches.  Such technology is used worldwide in academic institutions and in the healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.  Furthermore, the use of cell culture techniques are predicted to increase as biotechnologists look to develop new ways of using cells in the laboratory and reduce the numbers of animals used in research.  Accordingly, the market potential for cell culture technology is enormous and is recognized as a billion dollar industry.  Cell cultures are used for a broad variety of applications and such technology has given rise to many important findings over the years.  However, it must be recognised that when cells are grown outside the body they are exposed to different environmental pressures that influence their structure and ability to function.  Recreation of the in vivo environment in a Petri dish, multi-well plate or culture flask is therefore critical to ensure that cultured cells behave in a manner representative of their counterparts in vivo.  The purpose of this meeting is to review some of the new enabling technologies available to help overcome some of the limitations of cell culture.   This includes the development of new products and protocols to improve the technique of growing cells in the tissue culture laboratory.

 

Meeting Chair - Dr Stefan Przyborski,School of Biological and Biomedical Science, Durham University, UK

For more information go to http://www.regonline.co.uk/cellculture08


Confirmed Talks

Animal Cell Culture: a brief history and basic principles Dr Ian Freshney, CRUK Beatson Laboratories,UK

 

Utilising Chemically Modified Surfaces to Trigger Human MSC differentiation Both in the Presence and Absence of Biological Stimuli Dr Judith Curran, The University of Liverpool, UK


3D cell culture and growth supplements Dr Stefan Przyborski, School of Biological and Biomedical Science, Durham University, UK


Talk title to be confirmed
Professor Z F Cui, Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering, Oxford University, UK

Effects of altering oxygen tension
Professor Patrick Maxwell,  Imperial College London, UK

Talk title to be confirmed
Professor Michael Cooke, Durham University, UK

 

Registration fees

 

The deadline for early registration is January 20th 2008 

 

 

 

Before the early registration deadline

After the early registration deadline

Standard

£249

£485

Academic

£149

£298

Student

£99

£198

IBMS

£149

£298

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

We seek CPD accreditation from the IBMS for all our meetings

 

 

 

Developments in cell culture technology to enhance cell growth in vitro: 2 May 2008