Planarians to Parasitism: Stem Cells and Development in Flatworms
06/12/11 16:10
Planarians to Parasitism: Stem Cells and Development in Flatworms
Together with the Pearson Lab, and sponsorship from BMC Parasites & Vectors and The Systematics Association, we are pleased to announce a symposium that will be held during the 2012 Lisbon conference of the European Society for Evolutionary BIology, entitled “Planarians to Parasitism: Stem Cells and Development in Flatworms”.
The symposium aims to bring together workers on the developmental biology of free-living flatworms with those working on parasitic groups in order to foster greater synergy between these traditionally disparate research disciplines, i.e. developmental biology and parasitology. We are currently working on a book proposal for an edited volume to follow from the symposium, but including many additional contributors (watch this space!).
Organisers:
Peter D Olson (Natural History Museum, UK)
Bret Pearson (Hospital for Sick Kids, Canada)
Speakers:
Aziz Aboobaker (University of Nottingham, UK)
Klaus Brehm (Universitat Wurzburg, Germany)
Francesc Cebria (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Kyle Gurley (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Peter Ladurner (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
James Collins (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Canada)