4th International Conference on Metals and Genetics Metals & Biochemistry, Disease, Environment, Pharmaceutics
Important Dates and Deadlines October, 30th 2007 : Opening of abstract submission and registration April, 1st 2008 Closing of abstract submission April, 30th 2008 Early registration deadline July, 21st, 2008 Opening of the conference July, 24th, 2008 Closing of the conference
Sponsorship ICMG 2008 provides numerous sponsorship opportunities, with highly attractive possibilities to present your institution. If you are interested to support ICMG 2008 as sponsor, contact the ICMG 2008 office to obtain more detailed information (
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Exhibition Take advantage of ICMG 2008 to exhibit your products to the researchers of the field. If you are interested by, please contact the organizing committee (
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July 21 - 24, 2008 Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Université Paris Descartes Paris, France
Paris, France July 21 – 24, 2008 Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Université Paris Descartes
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ICMG Paris — Monday, July 21
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to Thursday, July 24th
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 4th International Conference on Metals and Genetics (ICMG 2008) to be held in the University of Paris Descartes (Paris, France), July 21st to 24th, 2008. The Paris Congress will follow the format of the very successful previous meetings (ICMG 1994, ICMG 1998, ICMG 2004) held at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (Canada). The congress will cover the large discipline of metals and genes, related diseases, and their therapeutics, the role of the metals in nutritional supplementation, and finally themes related to environment and trace elements characterization.
Organizing committee Pr. Bibudhendra Sarkar Honorary President Pr. Simone Bénazeth Co-president Dr. Emmanuel Curis Dr. Patrick Deschamps Dr. Ioannis Nicolis Dr. Naïma Zerrouk
Congress Office Laboratoire de Biomathématiques Faculté de Pharmacie 4, avenue de l’Observatoire 75006 Paris - France Tel. : 33 (1) 53 73 98 48 Fax : 33 (1) 53 73 97 77 Email :
[email protected] Website: www.fourthmetalsandgenetics.org
Metals and Genetics
ICMG Paris 2008
Numerous biological functions depend on metals. Details of the genetic control of metal metabolism in plants and animals are being discovered. Recent advances in management of human diseases due to disordered metal metabolism have been ushered by discoveries of relevant genes and determining the effects of their mutations. Metals also play an important role in cancer biology, partly because metals interact with DNA and partly because metabolism of metals in cancerous cells presents treatment modalities. A new problem is that environmental contamination with natural or manmade metals poses serious health risks to populations. Recent advances in molecular biology, physics, proteomics, systems biology and clinical medicine further emphasize the delicate balance of metals in health and disease. The first conference of this series, initiated by Professor B. Sarkar at Toronto (Canada) in 1994, was carried out to uncover these relationships. In our Parisian conference, the main topics will be as follows: Metal-associated diseases: molecular and systemic biology approaches, Metals in pharmaceutics and in nutrition, Characterization and speciation of metal in proteins and biological tissues, Metals and environmental health implications.
International Scientific committee ; invited speakers
Dr. Isabelle Artaud (France)
Pr. Ryszard Lobinski (France)
Pr. Isabella Ascone (France)
Pr. Jean-Pierre Mahy (France)
Pr. Lucia Banci (Italy)
Pr. Daniel Mansuy (France)
Pr. Simone Bénazeth (France)
Pr. Martina Muckenthaler (Germany)
Pr. Jean-Claude Chaumeil (France)
Pr. Gunnar Nordberg (Sweden)
Pr. Max Costa (United States)
Dr. Richard Ortega (France)
Pr. Athanassios Coutsolelos (Greece)
Pr. Eve Roberts (Canada)
Pr. Diane Cox (Canada)
Pr. Bernard Roques (France)
Pr. Shuichi Enomoto (Japan)
Pr. Peter J. Sadler (United Kingdom)
Pr. Peter Faller (France)
Pr. Michael Schilsky (United States)
Dr. Seth H. Frisbie (United States)
Pr. Hongzhe Sun (China)
Dr. Mamta Gautam-Basak (United States)
Pr. Alain Tomas (France)
Pr. Jean-Jacques Girerd (France)
Dr. Szabina Török (Hungary)
Pr. José Gómez-Ariza (Spain)
Pr. Deborah Zamble (Canada)
Pr. Hiroki Haraguchi (Japan)
