The Biochemical Society, The Society for Experimental Biology and The British Ecological Society are delighted to announce their first ever joint scientific meeting.
This collaborative event will showcase leading research on stress responses, and will aim to develop cross-disciplinary research in this area. A distinguished list of international speakers will cover studies from biochemistry and gene regulatory networks through organisms to ecophysiology, behaviour and ecology. The programme will have the following broad cross-disciplinary sub-themes:
• Stress responses, cascades and networks: behaviour, physiology, molecules and genes
• Adaptation to changing environments: evolution and the future
• Enabling technologies: case studies and scope for application
Understanding stress responses has implications at many levels of biology, ranging from the study of gene networks in individual cells or looking at how stress responses can affect behaviour in organisms, through to the global level study of the impacts of climate change and environmental pollution on whole populations. The importance of the topic is matched by a growing range of powerful tools which can be used to study stress responses from high throughput post-genomics methods through to satellite imagery.
There is a great need, however, for workers in disciplines which are traditionally somewhat separate to come together in joint projects where different methods and approaches can be shared.
As funding is being targeted more and more at inter-disciplinary work, and as the urgency of tackling some of the problems arising from stress at all levels is being increasingly recognised, this conference is a very timely opportunity to learn more about this field and to build contacts to enable our research to expand .
The speakers and organisers at this meeting will work hard to make sure that material is accessible to all the attendees, and we intend to have a great time hearing about exciting science and making plans for the future.
Programme Committee
Dr Scott Hayward
Dr Peter Lund
Dr Jerry Pritchard
University of Birmingham, UK