Registration now open for ComBio2015
ComBio2015 incorporates the annual meetings of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology, the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists. The event will be held from 27 September to 1 October 2015 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The scientific program of the conference will include multiple themes integrated by different threads. Provisional conference themes include:
- Cancer biology
- Education
- Global change biology
- Infection and host
- Metabolic and cardiovascular
- Neuroscience
- Plant cell biology
- Plant physiology
- Regenerative and developmental biology
Abstract submissions and early-bird registration for the event will be open until 26 June. The conference secretariat has also reserved large blocks of hotel and apartment accommodation in close proximity to the convention centre, with a guaranteed hotel reservation deadline of 7 August.
For more information, including the provisional timetable and confirmed speakers, visit http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2015/index.html or email Sally Jay at combio@asbmb.org.au.
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