27th – 29th January 2015
London, UK
This event will discuss the many roles of bacteriophages, ranging from fundamental biological research to their use in medical and industrial biotechnologies. Topics will include uses of phages for therapeutics, food manufacture, delivery vectors, drivers of microbiota structure reporters of microbiome diversity, and their role on the environment
This event has CPD accreditation
The Deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentation is Oct 10th 2014
Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event
This meeting has an open oral and poster session. Abstracts can be submitted on any subject related to Bacteriophages
You can download the instructions for authors at
Talks include
European Implementation of Bacteriophage Therapy: Impact of Medicinal Product Legislation on Tailored Hospital Care
Gilbert Verbeken, Human Cell- and Tissue Banks, Brussels, Belguim
Regulation of replication of Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages
Professor Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland
Bacteriophages for healthy living
Dr Alexander Sulakvelidze, Intralytix, Inc, Baltimore, USA
Phage recombination
Dr Gary Sharples, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, UK
Talk title to be confirmed
Prof. Dr. Martin J. Loessner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, Zurich, Switzerland
GMP manufacture of phages for clinical trial
Tony Hitchcock, Technology Director, Cobra Biologics
Talk title to be confirmed
Prof Mikael Skurnik, Ph.D., Professor of Bacteriology, Haartman Institute, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Research Programs Unit, Immunobiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory Diagnostics, Finland
Confirmed Speakers Include
Professor Stephane Evoy, University of Alberta, Canada
Professor Louise Temple, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
June 7-12 Phage/Virus Assembly Meeting, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Braga, Portugal
15-19 June 2015
After the great success of the 1st International hands-on course on phage biotechnology in 2013, we are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of this course that will be held in Braga, Portugal from 15-19 June 2015. This 5 days training period will consist on both theoretical and practical lessons covering topics from isolation and production of phages to proteomics and genomics, genome annotation and phage display.
The course is directed to both PhD students and junior researchers who are starting in the phage field or to post-doctoral, senior researchers and industrial partners who want to improve their knowledge in the area.
More information is available at www.ceb.uminho.pt/bbig/HOP2015/