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Latest News – updated 12th October (click for information)
Dear Phagocyte Friends and Colleagues,
Next year’s European Phagocyte Workshop will take place on March 22-24, 2012 in Budapest, Hungary, in the frame of the annual ESCI meeting. Workshop organisers are Attila Mocsai and Erzsebet Ligeti from Budapest. Venue and accommodation are at a Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget on Margaret Island, a beautiful little island in the middle of the Danube in central Budapest.
Topics are Leukocyte Trafficking, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Receptors and Signaling, and Inflammatory Diseases. Invited Speakers include Triantafyllos Chavakis (DE), Sergio Grinstein (CA), Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini (FR), Markus Moser (DE), Sussan Nourshargh (UK), Gabriel Nunez (US), Michael Sixt (AT), David Underhill (US) and Timo van den Berg (NL).
Deadline for abstract submission: Dec 15, 2011. As always, there will be lots of travel grants available for junior investigators. Further information can be found on: www.esci2012.hu or www.esci.eu.com
Best regards, Heidi
News – 12th May 2011
Dear Phagocyte Friends and Colleagues,
There was me thinking that I keep writing these little entries on phagocytes.net for an audience of one – myself. Far from it! Mike Hinton, our website manager extraordinaire, has turned Big Brother and just sent me astonishingly detailed and highly interesting info on how you all use the site. I’d like to share some of the highlights with you.
Since the beginning of this year, 1,126 of people from 70 countries (mainly USA, Germany, UK and France) have used the site. Not bad.
After this ‘Home’ page, you all tend to check out the ‘Workshop’ and the ‘Events’ pages - it’s great that they are useful, I was hoping they are. I was quite surprised, however, that hundreds of you also check out the ‘Groups’ pages. (You probably won’t be surprised to hear that Attila’s group is currently the most popular one among these). So, for those who have gone to the trouble of writing a ‘Group’ entry: it’s working - keep it updated. For those of you who haven’t gotten ‘round to it yet – it’s working, get to it!
In future, let’s all make more use of the ‘Jobs’ and ‘Protocol’ pages. If you would like to advertise a phagocyte-research job, or share a lab protocol so you won’t need to keep emailing it to your colleagues, just email me at phagocytes.webmaster@bbsrc.ac.uk Around 100 people will see it, and then the use of the ‘Jobs’ and ‘Protocols’ pages will hopefully snowball.
I’ve got a bit of history for you, too. Since records began in 2009, we had 6,352 site visits and 18,664 page views. Things tend to hot up each year between September and November, around the time of the looming registration deadline for next year’s European Phagocyte Workshop. Lovely, that seems to be working just as intended.
Finally, just over half of you get to the site through a search engine. However, an astonishing third of you come here straight for all your phagocyte-related news, and that number keeps growing in an encouraging manner. So it’s not just me, writing little witticisms to myself. Phagocytes.net actually does fulfil its purpose of disseminating phagocyte news. I’m chuffed.
Best regards, Heidi
News – 3 May 2011
Dear Phagocyte Friends and Colleagues,
those of you who were at the 2011 European Phagocyte Workshop in Heraklion, Crete, will agree that it was another great meeting, and in the most beautiful surroundings. We did not only have excellent talks by all the invited speakers, but as always a large number of talks on a wide range of phagocyte-related subjects selected from abstracts, which is the trademark of our Phagocyte Workshop meetings.
This year, two prizes were awarded in memory of our colleague Dr Emmanuelle Caron, who sadly died in July 2009. The prize for best talk from selected abstracts went to Mr George Damoulakis from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, for his work on the regulation of RhoG in neutrophils. The prize for best poster went to Dr Michaela Pekarova from the Academy of Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic, for her work on L-arginine in the regulation of macrophage function. Congratulations to both prize winners, you thoroughly deserved it!
If you have any group photos of the meeting that you would like to share on the website, please mail them to me at phagocytes.webmaster@bbsrc.ac.uk
We can also already start looking forward to next year’s meeting. It will take place from March 21-24 2012 in Budapest, Hungary, again in the frame of the annual ESCI meeting. Workshop organisers will be Attila Mocsai and Erzsebet Ligeti from Budapest. Venue and accommodation will be in a hotel on Margaret Island, a beautiful little island in the middle of the Danube in central Budapest. More details on that meeting will become available over the summer.
Best, Heidi
What is Phagocytes.net?
Phagocytes.net exists to facilitate interaction between research groups in the field of phagocyte biology, mainly by listing phagocyte research groups in Europe, events, and job vacancies. The site is hosted by some of the regulars of the Phagocyte Workshop at the annual meeting of the European Society of Clinical Investigation which is held each spring in a different European country. We’re a mix of groups, ranging from basic to clinical research labs and working on anything from phagocyte development over phagocyte signalling or cell biology to the pathogenesis and treatment of phagocyte-related diseases. Most of us are neutrophil fans, but don’t let that put you off if you prefer monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, basophils, mast cells or dendritic cells, the site should be useful for all of us.
Editors:
Heidi Welch - Babraham Institute
Attila Mocsai - Semmelweis University