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AboutRegistrationAccommodationProgrammeAbstracts Draft Programme The programme for the meeting can be found here. 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 and innate immunity. Prof Hirt is Director of the URGV Plant Genomics Research Unit, Paris, France and until last year was Head of the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna. His research is focused on perception and signalling of stress responses in plants. Invited speakers will include Thomas Baum, Mark Blaxter 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.
Excursions Two options for the excursion are offered: Wachau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachau) is a part of the Danube course upstream Vienna. It is characterized by impressing gorges formed by the Danube, pictorial ruins, and steep vine yards. We will visit traditional places such as Duernstein (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrnstein), make a tour on a Danube boat and visit Goettweig Abbey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttweig_Abbey), one of Austria´s the most beautiful abbeys. Wachau is a famous vine area where primarily Riesling and Grner Veltliner are produced. On the way back we will pass Krems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krems_an_der_Donau), a small centre for tourism and culture in this area. Neusiedler See/Lake Neusiedl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Neusiedl), Austria´s second largest lake is located at the foot of the Leitha Mountains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitha_Mountains). The lake has a very specific character: it is one of the very few steppe lakes in Central Europe, surrounded by a belt of reeds, and it is no more than 1.8 m deep. A boat tour on this lake is a must. In this semi-arid region Austria´s excellent red wines are produced. We will pass Rohrau, the place of birth of Joseph Haydn, and Carnuntum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnuntum), a Roman military camp and castel. Finally we will reach the Danube at Hainburg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainburg_an_der_Donau), where we climb a viewpont (Braunsberg) to enjoy the marvellous panorama between Bratislava (Slovakia) on one side and Vienna on the other side. At the end of the excursion both groups will meet for a get-together at a traditional wine tavern close to Vienna.
The programme for the meeting can be found here. |
