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Conventions: Mar 22, 2009

Occupational Health: A Basic Right at Work - An Asset to Society

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape town, Western Cape, South Africa

The program will bring together, for the first time in Sub Saharan Africa, an international panel of experts with presentations that will enable you to present quality Occupational Health Program with confidence. We invite you to submit an abstract and enjoy the excitement of sharing your research with colleagues from all parts of the globe.

The ICOH 2009 will be an international inventory of the new developments in occupational health research and in best practices during the last three years.

Occupational Health: A Basic Right at Work - An Asset to Society

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 29, 2009,
Cape Town International Conference Center, Cape Town, South Africa South Africa

The programme will bring together, for the first time in Sub Saharan Africa, an international panel of experts with presentations that will enable you to present quality Occupational Health Programmes with confidence. We invite you to submit an abstract and enjoy the excitement of sharing your research with colleagues from all parts of the globe.

Saudi Medicare 2009 - The 12th International Healthcare, Hospital Supplies and Medical Equipment Show

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Riyadh Exhibition Center, Riyadh, Ar Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The rapid increase in disposable income of Saudi Arabia has results for the need of more sophisticated and state of the art medical services and technology.

Coastal Surveillance Middle East

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
The Diplomat Radisson SAS Hotel Residence & Spa Manama Bahrain

Attend this regional first, to hear from global naval and maritime security experts sharing best-practice on achieving effective Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Without actionable intelligence, counterterrorist or maritime law enforcement operations are seldom successful. This event will deliver cutting-edge expertise on this crucial area of national security.

Defence IQ has been helping deliver critical information to senior decision makers in the defence, aerospace and technology sectors, tackling issues relating to the latest defence plans, requirements, programmes and technologies and how they affect you.

2009 Engineering Deans Institute (EDI)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts United States

The annual ASEE Engineering Deans Institute (EDI) provides an opportunity for engineering deans- and only deans- to gather and discuss the crucial issues facing their schools, colleges, and profession. For a few days, a single-stream program fosters dialogue between deans, industry leaders, and those in important roles in research and government. Deans share best practices, learn about career prospects for their graduates, and develop a voice for engineering education and the role of engineering in society. Social activities and plenty of time for conversation encourage the cultivation of relationships and an intensely rewarding experience.

Exhibition Exhibitor Show 2009:The National Conference and Exhibition for Trade Show & Event Marketing Professionals

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 26, 2009,
Las Vegas, Nevada United States

EXHIBITOR 2009 is the 21st annual educational conference and exhibition for exhibit and event marketers. Sponsored by EXHIBITOR magazine, this event is corporate America's top choice for serious education, hands-on training, new product launches, career networking, and special access to industry experts and thought leaders.

It also includes the country's largest exhibition of trade show and event products and services, with over 300 suppliers. And it offers the industry's only university-affiliated professional certification program (CTSM), with over 2,000 candidates currently enrolled.

Flora London Marathon Exhibition

Mar 22, 2009 - Apr 25, 2009,
Excel Exhibition Centre, London, England, United Kingdom

Whether you are running in the race or not the exhibition is an opportunity that’s too good to miss for anyone interested in running and fitness. The 2009 Flora London Marathon Exhibition will the biggest ever, the demand from exhibitors to present their latest products and services has been unprecedented. All the major athletic brands are present as are a multitude of other exhibitors showing and selling everything from socks to global navigation devices to the latest niche products and everything between. The show has more manufacturers, more international races, more charities, more running publications, more medical companies and the best selection of retailers you will ever see under one roof. There is plenty to engage beginner and the serious distance runner alike.

European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2009)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 29, 2009,
University of York York, England United Kingdom

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops and other events. ETAPS 2009 is the twelfth event in the series.

3rd Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire United States

Call for Papers

A selection of papers from the conference will be published in an edited volume – the third in the series entitled Critical
Infrastructure Protection (Springer) – in the fall of 2009. Revised and/or extended versions of outstanding papers from the
conference will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier).
Papers are solicited in all areas of critical infrastructure protection. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Infrastructure vulnerabilities, threats and risks
• Security challenges, solutions and implementation issues
• Infrastructure sector interdependencies and security implications
• Risk analysis and risk assessment methodologies
• Modeling and simulation of critical infrastructures
• Legal, economic and policy issues related to critical infrastructure protection
• Secure information sharing
• Infrastructure protection case studies
• Distributed control systems/SCADA security
• Telecommunications network security

California Section Annual Conference 2009

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009,
Intercontinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco, California United States

The conference is designed for individuals, organizations, and agencies that are associated with or interested in the design, management, operation, and use of water recycling facilities and projects in California. The topics covered will include recycled water planning, operational issues, regulatory issues, financial considerations, and environmental benefits. In addition to technical sessions, the conference will feature poster presentations, technical tours, receptions, an awards luncheon, the annual Gordon Cologne Breakfast, and the ever popular exhibition component.

Cell Death Pathways

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
TELUS Whistler Conference Centre Whistler, British Columbia Canada

Programmed cell death plays a critical role during development and adult homeostasis by eliminating unneeded and damaged cells, and defects in cell death can result in a wide range of diseases. While studies of apoptotic cell death have defined central regulatory mechanisms including a role for mitochondria, the relationship between core apoptosis factors, mitochondrial physiology, and how this relates to normal and aberrant development remains unsolved. The purpose of this meeting is to define the relationship between mitochondria and cell death pathways. The meeting will focus on the relationship between apoptosis regulatory pathways, mitochondrial physiology, metabolism, and non-apoptotic death mechanisms in the context of normal development and pathological situations including degenerative disorders and cancer. Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be significantly enhanced by the concurrent meeting “Mitochondrial Dynamics and Physiology”, which will share a keynote address and two plenary sessions with this meeting.

Mitochondrial Dynamics and Physiology

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
TELUS Whistler Conference Centre Whistler, British Columbia Canada

The view of mitochondria as dynamic organelles that are continuously remodeled by fission, fusion and transport has finally become mainstream. Research reveals that these processes impact mitochondrial function in healthy and apoptotic cells and cause inherited neuropathies in humans when disturbed. Progress has been made in identifying the molecular machineries that carry out these events and the signaling pathways that integrate mitochondrial behavior with cell physiology. The current challenge for researchers and clinicians is to incorporate these findings into testable models for the etiology of mitochondrial diseases. The goal of this meeting is to bring together international leaders in basic and clinical research to discuss new and exciting findings and the best strategies for applying this information in the laboratory and the clinic. By including workshops and short talks chosen from abstracts, the program will showcase late-breaking “hot” topics, provide a forum to critically evaluate current controversies, and will be of interest to scientists interested in basic mechanisms of organelle biology as well as clinicians interested in mitochondrial pathology. Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be further enhanced by the concurrent meeting “Cell Death Pathways”, which will share a Keynote and two plenary sessions with this meeting.

Drug Discovery for Protozoan Parasites

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 26, 2009,
Beaver Run Resort Breckenridge, Colorado United States

The discovery and development of new drugs for protozoan parasites has rapidly expanded to include multidisciplinary approaches from academia, government, and industry. Public-private partnerships have focused efforts on translational research and as a result, new drugs have been advanced into clinical evaluation. Unfortunately, development of several promising new drugs has recently been terminated in clinical trials thus leaving a sparse pipeline of new chemical entities that have potential for registration in the next few years. Importantly, the need for effective new drugs for major human parasitic diseases (malaria, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis) is growing and concerns over antimalarial resistance to artemisinin-based drugs are building. This meeting will bring together chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, and clinicians to find solutions to accelerate drug discovery efforts. Key problems to be addressed include identification and validation of new targets, chemical biology and medicinal chemistry approaches to characterize new compounds, novel screening techniques to identify new chemotypes, mechanisms of drug resistance, and cutting edge strategies to progress new drug candidates into clinical trials. The objectives of this meeting are to discuss current methods to identify and validate new drug targets and to screen libraries of compounds to discover novel chemotypes; assess the potential for chemical biology and medicinal chemistry to optimize compounds that are specific and avoid resistance mechanisms; and identify critical paths for compound progression and to discuss the utility of key models for assessing preclinical drug leads.

Prevention of HIV/AIDS

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
Keystone Resort Keystone, Colorado United States

Most recent research efforts on the prevention of HIV and AIDS has focused on T cell-based vaccines but it is admitted this approach will not prevent HIV and needs to be strengthened by novel approaches to generate HIV neutralizing antibodies. The recent successes or failures of alternative methods of HIV prevention (e.g., microbicides, circumcision), or of AIDS prevention (therapeutic vaccines) should help better understand how HIV vaccines can be used, and require sharing basic understanding and results with the prophylactic vaccine field. However the recent negative results of a major HIV vaccine trial have substantially disorganized the field and limit preparation of a definitive program a year and a half in advance. The goals of the meeting are therefore to focus on the most recent key advances in the understanding of (1) how HIV can be controlled at entry and after infection in 3 joint sessions with the concurrent “HIV Immunobiology” meeting, (2) how T cell-based or antibody-based HIV vaccines can be improved, and (3) what are the results of the current vaccine trials and those of alternative methods of HIV or AIDS prevention and how can they help at re-orientating vaccine researches. Two workshops will provide key information on the definition of immune correlates of protection and their analysis in clinical trials.

HIV Immunobiology: From Infection to Immune Control

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
Keystone Resort Keystone, Colorado United States

This meeting will highlight the latest breakthroughs in basic HIV research, ranging from the molecular bases of HIV replication to the host genetic determinants influencing viral spread and disease susceptibility; and from the intricacy of the interaction between HIV and the immune system to the most promising progress in therapeutic development. The meeting will identify new levels of possible intervention to control the progression of HIV-induced disease and, more generally, deepen our understanding of the intimate interaction between retroelements and human hosts. Dynamism will be ensured by having concise, up-to-date talks rather than lengthy lectures, by giving ample room to speakers chosen from the abstracts, and by a close coordination with the concurrent meeting on "Prevention of HIV/AIDS". Opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions will be significantly enhanced by the concurrent meeting, which will share a keynote address and three plenary sessions with this meeting.

11th Conference on Pharmacy & Applied Physical Chemistry (PhandTA 11)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Centro Stefano Franscini Monté Verità Ascona, Switzerland

PhandTA 11, the 11th Int. Conference on Pharmacy and Applied
Physical Chemistry, will be held once more at the rather ideal location
“Centro Monte Verità”. The aim of the Conference is to assemble Scientists and Experts from Academia and from the Pharmaceutical Industry. Important aspects such as the Discovery and Screening of New Chemical Entities as well as the physicochemical analytical Characterization of Drug Substances, Drug Products and Excipients will be presented and discussed. In addition, investigations and research
concerning the transport and the bioavailability of Drug Substances are outlined as well as the different forms of Delivery Systems. The increasing pressure for the fast development of extremely efficient Drug Substances and Drug Products of a high quality affords outstanding research activities and in addition efficient development procedures.

Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT 2009)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 26, 2009,
Tunisia

SETIT 2009 has the ambition to promote a technological reference frame, to give answers and original innovating ideas and to contribute to a common language around the information processing and the telecommunications. This conference will allow, on one hand, to share experience, to make a state of the art of the theory, research, telecommunication applications and the Information processing. On the other hand, Setit will present future innovations.

Multi-Drug Efflux Systems

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
Hotel Galvez Galveston, Texas United States

The phenomenon of resistance to chemotherapy continues to plague treatment of cancer and bacterial infection. Whilst drug resistance should be considered a multi-factorial process the original “Multidrug Efflux Systems” GRC in 2003 highlighted the prominence and impact of drug efflux pumps in the phenotype. The long-term mission statement of the scientific community at this GRC was to provide a molecular description of the multidrug efflux process and to design inhibitors to overcome the actions of the pumps responsible for the phenomenon. The second GRC in 2005 focussed on molecular aspects of resistance to chemotherapy including regulation and bio-energetics. In addition, there was considerable discussion of the clinical relevance and the wider biological impact of multidrug efflux pumps. Efforts to understand the mechanism of multidrug efflux has advanced steadily with significant input from active participants of the previous GRCs.

However, a complete understanding requires the input of structural data and unfortunately this remains a difficult task for membrane proteins. Provision of structural data has begun in earnest and advances in expression systems and extraction techniques have brought us to the cusp for many efflux pumps. This aspect of research will be a particular focus for the 2009 “Multidrug Efflux Systems” meeting. Structural information will comprise high resolution X-ray and electron microscopy data in addition to molecular modelling for proteins whose structures are not fully understood. A particular emphasis will be to relate structural information with biochemical data on drug-protein interaction and chemical synthesis of inhibitors. The emerging structural information thus heralds an exciting period in the quest to circumvent multidrug resistance in bacterial infections and cancer.

Insulin-Like Growth Factors In Physiology & Disease 2009

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 27, 2009,
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express Ventura, California United States

The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are essential regulators of normal somatic growth during childhood and are critical agents of tissue repair and regeneration throughout the lifespan. IGFs also may play deleterious roles in human disease, including potentially facilitating the survival and metastasis of cancer cells, contributing to the chronic vascular defects in diabetes mellitus, and possibly exerting a negative impact on aging. The focus of the 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Insulin-like Growth Factors in Physiology and Disease will be on these disparate functions of the IGFs, with an emphasis on the molecular and biochemical basis of IGF actions in the contexts of aging and regenerative medicine, cardiovascular biology, cancer, and metabolic disease. These topics and others will be presented by leading scientists in these fields. There will be additional opportunities for discussions during poster presentations and short talks, which will spotlight the research of new investigators, post-doctoral scientists, and graduate students, as well as during informal gatherings in afternoons and evenings. Keys goals will be to understand mechanisms of regulation of IGF production, to elucidate the signal transduction pathways mediated by the IGF-I receptor that control the different effects of the IGFs, and to discern the multi-factorial roles of IGF binding proteins in both physiological and pathological contexts. An additional emphasis will be on defining new opportunities for therapeutic interventions that will enhance the positive physiological actions of the IGFs and blunt their negative effects.

16th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas (ApiP 2009)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 26, 2009,
The Embassy Suites Monterey Bay - Seaside Monterey, California United States

Topics covered:

High-energy density physics
* laser and pulsed-power facilities
* fast-ignition and inertial fusion

Astrophysical plasmas
Magnetic-fusion plasmas
* ITER, DIII-D, JET, etc.

Bench-top scale plasmas
* table-top lasers, EBITs

Next generation light sources
* LCLS, DESY, free-electron lasers

Fundamental atomic data
Fundamental modeling and Plasma diagnostics

Frontiers in Science Education Research (FISER 2009)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009,
Salamis Bay Hotel Famagusta Cyprus

The aim of FISER’09 is to provide a scholarly environment for promoting discussions in contemporary topics of undergraduate science and mathematics education research. FISER’09 is open to professional science and mathematics education researchers, educators, students and all others who are interested. During FISER’09, topics that will be covered will extend from education technologies to faculty development and from undergraduate curricula designs to the Bologna Process.

Advances in Bioprocessing 2009

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 23, 2009,
Oncenter Complex Syracuse, New York United States

A different kind of conference . . .

* Where you can talk about best practices in a true exchange with others in a small group,
* Followed by a plenary facilitated session to exchange best practices that will expand on everyone's success stories,
* Regroup to small groups to build a model for success,
* End the experience with a keynote's action plan to move you and your company forward to measurable, successful outcomes.

237th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 26, 2009,
Salt Lake City, Utah United States

The meeting will offer a wide array of networking opportunities, continuing education activities, and specialized student programs, as well as the ACS National Exposition and ACS Career Fair.

Corporate Counsel Gipfel 2009

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009,
Fairmont Le Montreux Palace Montreux Switzerland

10th Annual International Summit on Redesigning the Clinical Office Practice

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009,
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

The 10th Annual International Summit on Redesigning the Clinical Office Practice will build on its nine-year history as the meeting place for thousands of providers to learn cutting-edge improvements for the office practice and outpatient settings.

CSAE Conference 2009 (Economic Development in Africa)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009,
St Catherine's College Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Conference papers will be on any topics related to African economic development, including in a comparative context. The conference will largely consist of parallel sessions, with two plenary sessions.

7th World Potato Congress

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Christchurch Convention Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Congress theme, Nourishing our Future; Nutritious, Delicious, Sustainable, is increasingly relevant as more and more consumers demand nutritious food that is also grown sustainably. The 7th World Potato Congress is an outstanding opportunity to demonstrate the industry’s commitment to operating sustainably.

March in New Zealand is the end of the southern hemisphere summer. The warm weather and long evenings will give delegates from the Northern Hemisphere a welcome taste of summer and a chance to enjoy Christchurch at its best.

European Winter Finance Summit (EWFS 2009)

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 25, 2009,
Glemmtalerhof Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Salzburg Austria

The EWFS (formerly 'The Skinance Workshop') brings together a small group of researchers in finance to discuss and develop new ideas in a stimulating and relaxing atmosphere. This is the fifth time the workshop takes place, building on the success of the former events.

Internal Medicine

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 29, 2009,
Celebrity's new Solstice Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States

The purpose of this CME activity is to review the diagnosis and management of medical conditions encountered by Family Physicians with special emphasis on family relationships. Preliminary Objectives for Activity

• Accurately assess and differentiate patient’s pain complaints
• List methods of diabetes management for women
• Identify primary prevention of colorectal cancers
• Evaluate differential treatment approaches of COPD vs. Asthma
• Discuss the controversies in preventive cardiology, CVD in women
• Recognize the importance of a clinician’s unique role in preventing domestic violence
• Characterize the clinical syndromes and symptoms associated with MS
• Outline the impacts of thyroid disease on women
• Update HIV/AIDs

Perspectives in Stem Cell Proteomics Conference

Mar 22, 2009 - Mar 23, 2009,
Wellcome Trust Conference Centre Cambridge, New Forest, United Kingdom

This conference will focus on the current status of proteomics in stem cell research, from reviewing the state of the art in technology, to its potential in understanding of fundamental developmental biology as well as therapeutic implications. Considering the many challenges in stem cell biology there is a pressing need for the implementation of proteomic applications. This has been realised by a growing number of scientists who have started to chart the proteome of individual primary stem cells and stem cell lines and their differentiated derivatives, to define a subset of stem cell-specific proteins, or to identify differentiation-specific proteins that can be used as benchmarks for the intermediate or terminal steps of differentiation of cells. Critically these approaches are also providing clues on the signal transduction pathways and transcription factor interactions and cascades that drive each differentiation step. Stem cell biology and proteomics are both highly specialised scientific domains, however, so they are presently only rarely united in one person or even one lab or institute. The only way to bridge this gap and derive optimal benefit from what each field has to offer, is to bring together the specialists from both fields to discuss needs, possibilities, requirements and conditions that will have to be resolved before collaborative efforts can be successful. This conference aims to facilitate this process.