30th UK Adhesion Meeting
University College London: 20-21 September 2018
Cell Adhesion in the regulation of cell behaviour
The meeting of the UK Adhesion Society brings together the academic community working on cell adhesion. The meeting covers various aspects of cell adhesion and the discussed scientific content is relevant for basic scientists interested in cell and developmental biology, as well as the scientific community working on inflammatory and age-related diseases, cancer, and inherited diseases that lead to cardiovascular conditions, blindness and hearing loss. This year’s meeting will have a particular focus on how cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion regulates cell behaviour and how such molecular processes become deregulated in disease.
The meeting will have 5 main sessions that cover leukocyte differentiation and migration, adhesion and polarized morphogenesis in three-dimensional in vitro systems and in vivo, stem cell differentiation and development, cell-cell junctions in epithelial differentiation, and cell adhesion and migration of cancer cells.
The programme will cover two days and consists of 8 invited speakers as well as 20 early career speakers who will be chosen from the submitted abstracts. All invited speakers have confirmed their participation, and the list includes internationally well-known scientists:
Sophie Acton (UK),
Martin Baron (UK),
David Bryant (UK),
Carien Niessen (Germany),
Maddy Parsons (UK),
Anne Ridley (UK),
Heidi Welch (UK),
and Jan Wijnholds (Netherlands).
The guest speakers’ interests encompass a wide range of research into the molecular, cellular and developmental mechanisms of cell adhesion with the aim to attract young and established researchers from different fields of adhesion research to stimulate a lively discussion with a thought-provoking programme, hopefully leading to cross-fertilisation and new collaborative approaches.
The meeting will also have an extended poster session to enable all participants to present and discuss their work.
preliminary program is available for download here:UK Cell Adhesion meeting program
We looking forward to seeing you in London for this exciting meeting.