Phages in Interaction III (PhageBiotics)
Aims and Scope
The workshop ‘Phages in interaction III’ will be held for the third time, after successful meetings the previous years, at the K.U.Leuven Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Leuven (Heverlee), on Friday, December 18th 2009.
Like last year's scientific program , both fundamental bacteriophage research (genomics, proteomics, interactomics) and applied research towards development and use of phages or phage compounds for detection and control of bacterial pathogens in food and infectious disease will be covered. The latter addresses the worldwide issue of increasing microbial multidrug resistance.
This meeting is funded by a grant obtained from the FWO Vlaanderen, given to the members of the "PhageBiotics" Research community. Our research community aims at enhancing scientific communication and collaboration concerning bacteriophage research and its potential applications in medicine. Three Flemish research groups (Laboratory of Gene Technology, K.U.Leuven; Laboratory Bacteriological Research, Ugent; Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, UZ Neder-Over-Heembeek) combine their expertise in this domain with eastern European partners in Russia (State Research Institute GSIM, Moscow; Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute, Moscow) and Georgia (Eliava Institute, Tblisi) to assess the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages in the West through fundamental and applied research.
In addition, we will invite eminent speakers to give keynote lectures in their area of expertise in phage research. Participants are invited to contribute by poster presentations. From the submitted abstracts, two will be selected for oral presentation.
Location: Jozef Heuts-auditorium (00.215), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee)
Some pictures from previous years:
