June 24 - 28, 2013
24th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Sydney, Australia

We warmly invite you to be a part of the 24th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), the largest annual international scientific conference devoted to Arabidopsis thaliana – a model plant worked with by an estimated 16,000 labs around the world. Experiments performed in Arabidopsis often underpin plant research in general and Arabidopsis-driven research leads the way with technologies and concepts.

June 30 - July 3, 2013
34th Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Florence, Italy

International specialists will focus on topics at the front-line of scientific achievement in the field of Mycobacteriology and related diseases. As in previous meetings, the scientific program of the conferences will cover a wide range of topics in both applied and fundamental research.

July 7 - 11, 2013
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Symposium 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Chicago, IL, USA

The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution is an international organization whose goals are to provide facilities for association and communication among molecular evolutionists and to further the goals of molecular evolution, as well as its practitioners and teachers. In order to accomplish these goals, the Society publishes two peer-reviewed journals, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution. The Society sponsors an annual meeting, as well as smaller satellite meetings or workshop on important, focused, and timely topics. It also confers honors and awards to students and researchers.

July 10 - 12, 2013
The 20th British Association for Lung Research Summer Meeting 2013 - Curing Pulmonary Fibrosis: the Holy Grail
Nottingham, United Kingdom

The programme will feature talks from internationally renowned speakers highlighting novel imaging techniques, the search for new biomarkers and effective therapeutics and includes insights from non-pulmonary fibrotic diseases. The aim is to provide a forum to deliver cutting edge basic science and clinical research, foster collaborations between all participants and inspire the next generation of junior researchers in the respiratory field. The keynote address will be given by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Peter Mansfield.

July 17 - 19, 2013
Biochemical Society 2013 - Signalling 2013: from Structure to Function meeting
University of York, UK

The scientific program for Signalling 2013 - from Structure to Function, is designed to represent the cutting edge of modern signal transduction research. By including diverse, yet interrelated, topics this keystone meeting will demonstrate how cell signalling continues to underpin key advances in biological and medical research in the 21st century. Topics: * Second messengers * REDOX signalling * Small molecule inhibitors * Inflammation * Cancer * Ubiquitin * Lipid and protein kinases * Ion channels

July 17 - 19, 2013
Signalling 2013: from structure to function
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
York, UK

The scientific program for Signalling 2013 - from Structure to Function, is designed to represent the cutting edge of modern signal transduction research. By including diverse, yet interrelated, topics this keystone meeting will demonstrate how cell signalling continues to underpin key advances in biological and medical research in the 21st century. Topics: * Second messengers * REDOX signalling * Small molecule inhibitors * Inflammation * Cancer * Ubiquitin * Lipid and protein kinases * Ion channels

July 17 - 21, 2013
16th International Congress of Mucosal Immunology (ICMI) 2013
Vancouver, BC, Canada

ICMI 2013 is the only meeting where basic scientists, clinical researchers and industry professionals working at mucosal surfaces can meet to discuss the common and unique pathways of immunity and inflammation at different sites in the body.

July 19, 2013
9th Student Council Symposium of the International Society for Computational Biology 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Berlin, Germany

ISMB/ECCB brings together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. In these fields we are constantly dealing with information in visual form: from microscope images and photographs of gels to scatter plots, network graphs and phylogenetic trees, and visual aids for problem-solving are omnipresent.

July 19 - 23, 2013
21th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 12th European Conference on Computational Biology 2013 (ISMB/ECCB)
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Berlin, Germany

July 19 - 23, 2013
Joint 21st Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 12th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Berlin, Germany

ISMB/ECCB 2013 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology.

July 22 - 24, 2013
5th Annual Ubiquitin Drug Discovery & Diagnostics Conference 2013
Philadelphia, PA, USA

This premier conference in the ubiquitin field will host an exciting cast of ubiquitin-focused professionals from the academic, pharmaceutical, biotech and business communities. The three-day conference and workshop is unique in its focus on drug discovery within the ubiquitin pathway, and in its balance of both industry and academic interests. Delegates will have the opportunity to participate in a series of roundtable discussions and poster sessions, and to network with like-minded researchers from around the world. An innovative pre-conference workshop covering various topics in assays and assay platforms, substrate identification, and ubiquitylation, will begin the program. The focus will be on technical advances in ubiquitin research and its application to the treatment of human disease.

August 4 - 8, 2013
Biochemical Society/EMBO 2013 - Helicases and Nucleic Acid Translocases: Stucture, Mechanism, Function, and Roles in Human Diseases meeting
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Robinson College, Cambridge, UK

The study of helicases and translocases is a rapidly growing field, fuelled by the fact that helicase defects are associated with inherited human diseases including neurological disorders, cancer, and aging processes. Pathogens encode helicases, making these enzymes targets for new anti-viral or anti-bacterial therapies. New discoveries linking helicases to disease states are being discovered regularly, due to the fact that helicases and translocases participate in a wide variety of cellular functions. Topics: * Mechanisms and Roles of helicases and translocases * Helicases in genome stability and cellular aging * Remodelling of nucleoprotein complexes * Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression * Helicases in the mitochondria * Molecular machines processing DNA and RNA * Helicases acting on complex DNA and RNA structures

August 4 - 9, 2013
100th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2013
Minneapolis, MN, USA

In anticipation of the 100th Annual Meeting in 2015, the 98th Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting will look to the past as guidance in understanding and predicting future trends in ecosystem dynamics and services. With the backdrop of the beautiful city of Minneapolis, this meeting will capture the long influence of the ESA on ecology, and will set the stage for events leading to the centennial meeting. Long-term data, from fossil and pollen records, environmental proxies and observations that date in some cases from the early 1900s, provide the historical context and an important baseline for future trajectories. However, the future of Planet Earth is far from certain or predictable based on its past. Global drivers are changing in slope, magnitude, and direction, novel organisms are being introduced or developed, no-analog communities are forming, and humans continue to modify and interact with their environment. Historic legacies provide the template for these complex interactions. Developing and maintaining sustainable trajectories in the midst of these certain, yet highly unpredictable, changes that affect and interact with ecological systems is a critical challenge for ecologists, and provide the theme of the 98th meeting.

August 18 - 23, 2013
11th INTECOL Congress 2013, Ecology: Into the next 100 years
London, UK

The Congress programme will include 10 world class plenary speakers, symposia featuring major keynote lectures, workshops, submitted abstract sessions and extended poster slots. Other major features will be innovative ways for presenting and communicating science, and a programme structured so there are many opportunities to meet people. This Congress will give delegates a new perspective on a wide range of ecological topics and help establish new collaborative partnerships.

August 25 - 29, 2013
European Conference on Visual Perception 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Bremen, Germany

The European Conference on Visual Perception is a travelling, annual meeting of vision researchers. ECVP brings together researchers and students from various backgrounds to present and discuss new developments in our understanding of human vision and multisensory processes, as well as their applications. The conference is open to both young and established scientists from Europe and other parts of the world.

August 27 - 29, 2013
Neuroinformatics 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Stockholm, Sweden

The INCF Neuroinformatics Congress welcomes researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics, including data- and knowledge-bases of the nervous system from molecular to behavioral levels; tools for the acquisition, analysis, and visualization of nervous system data; and theoretical, computational, and simulation environments for modeling the brain.

September 1 - 5, 2013
Biochemical Society/75th Harden Conference 2013 - Receptor tyrosine kinase structure and function in mammalian health and disease meeting
University of Sheffield, UK

The study of receptor tyrosine kinases has been of fundamental biological interest with implications for treating a wide range of ailments including cancer, diabetes and atherosclerosis. Our understanding of such biology has led to the discovery and use of therapeutics, including small molecule inhibitors and humanised antibodies that have been approved for treatment of cancer and ocular disease. Our expanding knowledge of receptor tyrosine kinases has identified a myriad of functions, with implications for treating many ailments. By considering past and current advances in the field, this meeting aims to look towards a new and coherent understanding of receptor function and how this can be utilised for therapeutic gain. Topics: * ErbB function in epithelial physiology * Insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptor function * VEGF, Angiopoietin and Ephrins control of vascular physiology and disease * Trk regulation of neuronal function * Emerging receptor tyrosine kinase models in health and disease * Strategies for discovering new therapeutics that target receptor tyrosine kinases

September 11 - 13, 2013
Biochemical Society 2013 - Regulation of fertilisation and early seed development meeting
University of Bath, UK

The meeting will bring together labs at the cutting edge in plant reproduction research and will focus on the processes that regulate successful gamete delivery to the embryo sac and the complexity of post-fertilisation regulation of early seed development. The meeting will encompass aspects of reproductive cell biology, biochemistry and developmental genetics to provide in-depth coverage of this intricate feat of nature. Topics: * Pollen tube growth & self-incompatibility * Cell-cell communication in gamete delivery * Fertilization mechanisms * Role of small regulatory RNAs * Cell specification & embryonic pattern formation * Regulation of seed size * Epigenetics & imprinting

September 20 - 22, 2013
12th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2013
Conference abstract submission - deadline passed
Taicang, China

The 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) will be held in Taicang, China, on Sep 20-22th, 2013. The main hosts are Center for Systems Biology (CSB), Soochow University, one of the research and education pioneer in China in the field of Systems Biology, and Taicang Center for Translational Bioinformatics (TCTB), the first platform of translational bioinformatics in China. InCoB2013 has overall objective to provide a platform for experts and budding bioinformaticians to discuss and exchange ideas and thoughts on the development of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region. Beginning in 2002, InCoB has grown to become one of the largest bioinformatics conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. This annual conference exhibits the latest researches and technologies in all areas of bioinformatics and now it is attended by practitioners from both biology fields and computing backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region. The theme for InCoB2013 will be "Biomedical Informatics in the Big Data Era: Data-Driven Biology and Medicine". Therefore, the conference aims to promote the integration of bioinformatics, imaging informatics, clinical informatics and health informatics for understanding of complex biological and medical phenomenon as well as to encourage the exchange of scientific breakthrough amongst participants. InCoB2013 will include the latest bioinformatics and related topics on translational bioinformatics, population genetics, drug design and discovery, biomarker identification, systems biology, biological sequence analysis, expression data analysis, scalable data storage and other relevant subjects. Besides InCoB2013, the 2nd International Conference on Translational Biomedical Informatics (ICTBI 2013) is jointly hosted by TCTB and CSB at the same time period and venue.

September 21 - 24, 2013
21st World Congress for Sexual Health 2013
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Sexual Health is pivotal to the well being and safety of everyone on our planet and our congress will ensure that the diversity of positive and healthy sexual experience has prominent expression throughout. The theme has been selected by the local team and resonates as crucial for so many of us – sexual issues straight from the heart. What this may mean to you will probably be different to the next person to read this invitation letter but there will almost certainly be some common factor that bonds each of you by building bridges across the whole of the sexual health community. Whatever your discipline and your understanding of our 2013 theme, there will be much in common with fellow delegates and that this congress will be a great opportunity to share our experiences with generosity and through collegial interaction.