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The 2007
Summer Meeting of the British Association for Lung Research was held on
the 5th - 7th Sept 2007 at the John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth in
Ireland. This meeting entitled “Gene and Stem Cell Therapies for Lung
Diseases” was organised by Dr Shirley O’Dea who produced an exciting
programme of high quality talks on the highly topical area of gene and
stem cell therapies for lung diseases.
The meeting included presentations from international speakers including
Jean-Michel Sallenave (Paris), Susan Reynolds (Denver), Jim Fink (San
Carlos, CA) and Steve Dubinett (Los Angeles) as well as a number of more
“home grown” talents.
In keeping with the tradition of the BALR the meeting also included the
annual Young Scientists Competition with the prize being won by Ciara
Field-Corbett for her talk “Soluble signals from mechanically disrupted
lung tissue induce lung-related gene expression in bone marrow-derived
cells in vitro”. An open session oral presentations and the Poster
Session provided opportunities to view new data presented by emerging
young pulmonary scientists.
As well as the exciting science attendees were also treated to the
delights of Dinner at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
Further details of the programme:
Summer-2007-Programme-Book.pdf (256kb)
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| Kim Harison and Noel
Snell discuss the finer points of Guiness at the meeting dinner. |
Meeting organiser
Shirley O’Dea and BALR meeting secretary Rodger Duffin discuss teamup to
discuss housekeepin (in order) issues. |
Ciara Field-Corbet is
presented with her Young Scientist prize by Dr Kim Harrison. |
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Roger Duffin running
through the return route to Maynooth for the coach driver.
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| The 2006 Summer Meeting of the British Association for
Lung Research was held on the 9th - 11th July at Ranmoor Hall in
Sheffield. This meeting entitled “Innate Immunity and Host Defense in
the Lung” was attended by over 75 people and marked the 25th Anniversary
of the founding of BALR. The program contained the usual mix of exciting
pulmonary science and a relaxed social program, included a meeting
dinner at which Professor Geoff Laurent gave an informal overview of the
history of the Association and a formal presentation was made to our
outgoing President, Professor Terry Tetley in recognition of her service
to the BALR. We were also fortunate to have Professor Stephen Holgate
give an outstanding historical perspective on developments in
respiratory biology over the last 25 years.
The formal side of the meeting included presentations
from a number of international speakers; Cliff Taggart (Dublin), Jay
Kolls (Pittsburgh), Pieter Hiemstra (Lieden), Dominique Ferrandon
(Strasbourg) and Ralf Schumann (Berlin), as well as speakers from within
the UK. The proceedings of the meeting will be published in Experimental
Lung Research later in the year. |
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The young Scientist prize was awarded to Jose Yuste,
Centre for Respiratory Research. University College London, for his talk
entitled “ Serum amyloid P protects against Streptococcus pneumoniae
pneumonia’, whilst the Poster Prize was awarded to Dr Lynne Bingle,
University of Sheffield for her poster entitled “Comparative expression
of SPLUNC1, SPLUNC2 and LPLUNC1 in normal and diseased lung.” Both of
these prizes were generously sponsored by the Colt Foundation. The Colt
Foundation also supplied travel bursaries for the meeting and other
sponsors included AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. We are most grateful
for this continued support, which did much to ensure that we could
invite such a distinguished group of speakers and guests to the meeting.
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Professor Terry Tetley shows off her (empty) decanter. |
Jose Yuste is presented with his Young Scientist
prize by Dr Kim Harrison. |
Lynne Bingle is presented with the Poster Prize by
Dr Kim Harrison. |
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