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The European Society of Nematologists will hold its 30th International Symposium in Vienna, Austria from September 19th - 23rd 2010.

The Symposium will be hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna.  This venue provides excellent facilities on a campus in a charming green environment and with a blend of traditional and modern architecture.

General information about Austria and Vienna can be found here.  

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Location:         Information on the location and how to get there:

http://www.boku.ac.at/boku-tuerkenschanze.html?&L=1

 Local Organizers:

Florian Grundler

Monika Pribil

Julia Hofmann

Krzysztof Wieczorek

Holger Bohlmann

 Scientific Board:

Silvia Bulgheresi

Keith Davies

Ralph Udo Ehlers

Carolina Escobar

Johannes Hallmann   

John Jones

Marie-Noelle Rosso

Patricia Timper         

Miroslav Sobczak

Loes de Nijs

Keynote Speakers

ESN is delighted to announce Prof. Jonathan Hodgkin and Prof Heribert Hirt as the Keynote Speakers for the meeting.

Prof Hodgkin is a Professorial Fellow of Keble College Oxford and holder of the Genetics Chair in the Department of Biochemistry.  His work has covered a wide range of aspects of developmental biology of C. elegans, including sex determination, developmental morphogenesis, germline immortality and telomere function, nematode-bacteria interactions andinnate immunity.

Prof Hirt is Director of the URGV Plant Genomics Research Unit, Paris, France and until last year was Head of the Deptartment of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna.  His research is focused on perception and signalling of stress responses in plants.