CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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BRITISH ATHEROSCLEROSIS SOCIETY
Queens College - Cambridge Thursday 11 -
Friday 12 September 2008
BADG/BAS 100th MEETING PROGRAMME
NUCLEAR RECEPTORS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Speakers and topics include
STRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO NUCLEAR RECEPTOR
SIGNALLING John Schwabe, University of
Leicester, UK
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY OF ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTORS Tim
Willson, GSK, Philadelphia, USA
NUCLEAR RECEPTORS IN METABOLIC HOMEOSTASIS AND
METABOLIC SYNDROME
ROLE OF METABOLIC GENE REPRESSION IN LIPID /
ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS Malcolm Parker, Imperial
College London, UK
NUCLEAR RECEPTORS, METABOLIC HOMEOSTASIS AND
METABOLIC
SYNDROME Bart Staels, Pasteur Institute, Lille,
FRANCE
NUCLEAR RECEPTORS LINKING INFLAMMATION AND
METABOLISM
NUCLEAR RECEPTORS AT THE CROSSROADS OF LIPID
METABOLISM AND INFLAMMATION Peter Tontonoz, UCLA,
USA
MODULATION OF THE PPAR-RXR SYSTEM Jorge Plutzky,
Brigham and Womens, Harvard, USA

TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE OF NUCLEAR HORMONE
RECEPTORS
TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE OF NUCLEAR RECEPTORS David
Bishop-Bailey, William Harvey Institute London,
UK
NR4A ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS
AND METABOLISM Carlie De Vries, Academic Medical
Centre, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
CARDIOVASCULAR PHENOTYPES OF NUCLEAR HORMONE
RECEPTOR DEFICIENT MICE Antonio Vidal Puig,
Cambridge, UK
PPARS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE CLINIC Nico
Marx., Ulm, GERMANY
SPECIAL LECTURE TO MARK THE BADG/BAS 100TH
MEETING A HALF CENTURY OF CONTROVERSY OVER
CHOLESTEROL IN BRITAIN Gilbert Thompson, London,
UK
HUGH SINCLAIR LECTURE NUCLEAR RECEPTORS AND THE
ROAD AHEAD FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC INFLAMMATION Christ
opher Glass, University of California, San Diego,
USA
(the organisers reserve the right to change the
programme)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are invited on the topic of nuclear
receptors and atherosclerosis for the poster
session. Authors need not be members of the
society provided a BAS member is a co-author or
introduces the abstract.
Attendance is open to all members and their
guests. For instructions how to submit
abstracts, either on line or by email please see
our website on http//www.britathsoc.org
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION - FRIDAY 30
MAY 2008 - DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION - FRIDAY
22 AUGUST 2008 -
For a full programme and to register please
visit www.britathsoc.org Tel [phone]
984 Fax [phone] Email
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