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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.

The programme for the conference can be found here

Useful information for delegates

Information about transport in Vienna, including details of how to get from the airport to the conference venue and details of how to travel between the conference hotels and the conference venue can be found here.

A map showing the location of the main hotels in relation to the conference venue can be found here.

A map of the conference venue showing the locations of the various meeting rooms can be found here.

A sketch map showing the main landmarks of Vienna can be found here.

General information about Austria and Vienna can be found here.  

 

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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.

Invited speakers at the meeting will include Mark Blaxter, Thomas Baum and Ralf Sommer.

CCN workshop

The ESN 2010 meeting will include a workshop on Cereal Cyst Nematodes, designed to follow on from the highly successful first workshop held in Turkey in 2009.  Details of the workshop can be found here

 Local Organizers:

Florian Grundler

Monika Pribil

Julia Hofmann

Krzysztof Wieczorek

Holger Bohlmann

Shahid Siddique

Abd El Naser El Ashry

 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

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