Cell Culture Meeting and Panel Discussion is Planned for May 2008

There will be a panel discussion during EuroSciCon's 'Developments in cell culture technology to enhance cell growth in vitro' meeting on 2nd May 2008. Bring along your questions on the day and they will be presented to the panel. Abstracts are welcomed.

"Culturing mammalian cells in the laboratory enables biotechnologists to investigate the activity of cells, model and evaluate biological pathways, test drugs and allow the development of new therapeutic approaches. Such technology is used worldwide in academic institutions and in the healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Furthermore, the use of cell culture techniques are predicted to increase as biotechnologists look to develop new ways of using cells in the laboratory and reduce the numbers of animals used in research. Accordingly, the market potential for cell culture technology is enormous and is recognized as a billion dollar industry (Global Industry Analysts Report, 2006). Cell cultures are used for a broad variety of applications and such technology has given rise to many important findings over the years. However, it must be recognised that when cells are grown outside the body they are exposed to different environmental pressures that influence their structure and ability to function. Recreation of the in vivo environment in a Petri dish, multi-well plate or culture flask is therefore critical to ensure that cultured cells behave in a manner representative of their counterparts in vivo. The purpose of this meeting is to review some of the new enabling technologies available to help overcome some of the limitations of cell culture. This includes the development of new products and protocols to improve the technique of growing cells in the tissue culture laboratory". Meeting Chair - Dr Stefan Przyborski, School of Biological and Biomedical Science, Durham University, UK

To book, please visit the online registration page. The deadline for early registration is February 20th 2008.


There is still time to submit an abstract - those accepted for poster and oral presentations will also be published in the proceedings. There will be a prize for the best poster. Abstract guidelines can be found on the EuroSciCon page.