BSPB Meetings
BSPB Spring meeting 2012: April 2-3rd Strathclyde University
Outline Programme:
- Flagellate ultrastructure and phylogeny
- Keith Vickerman
- Soil protists
- John Darbyshire
- plasmodiophorids (cercozoan parasites of plants and heterokonts, including causative agent of clubroot, powdery potato scab, etc.)
- Sigrid Neuhauser
- Protist pathogens with environmental transmission routes (eg. Giardia and free-living amoebae)
- Julia Walochnick
BSPB delegates will be able to attend the BSP civic reception at the city chambers before the BSPB conference dinner. "The BSP Spring Meeting opens with annual Public Understanding of Science lecture by Professor Mike Barrett followed by a civic reception at Glasgow City Chambers on the 2nd April."
The BSPB will offer a number of student bursaries on a first come first served basis, students will be expected to present a poster or oral presentation.
Please send abstracts to Fiona Henriquez and contact William Gaze for further details of bursaries. Presentations are welcomed in any area of protist biology, as well as the three themes listed above.
Further details of registration costs and accommodation booking procedures will be circulated shortly.
Other Meetings
British Society for Parasitology meeting, Strathclyde 2nd April 2012.