Scope

To present and debate, through invited and submitted communications, the state-of-art in minerals and metal ions in terms of therapeutics, disease processes or optimal human health, as well as the underlying mechanisms as determined through in vitro and in vivo models and analytical methods.

Accepted abstracts will be published in the 11th edition of “Metal ions in Biology and Medicine” by John Libbey Eurotext, Paris. This volume will consist of two parts. Part I will incorporate all abstracts that have been accepted for Oral presentations and Posters while Part II will comprise of peer reviewed short papers/mini reviews.

Programme

Final detailed programme (PDF Format)

11th ISMIBM: Keynote Speakers

-Opening plenary key note lecture: Prof Dame Athene Donald, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

-Metal-based Toxicology: Prof Michael Aschner, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Tenessee, USA-

-Metal-based Toxicology: Prof Moussa Youdim, Eve Topf and NPF Centers of Excellence For Neurodegenerative Diseases, Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine Efron, Israel

-Inorganic Analytical methodology: Prof Ryszard Lobinski, Bio-inorganic Analytical Chemistry, CNRS UMR 5034, Pau, France

-Biomineralisation and Orthopaedics: Mr Alister J  Hart, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK

-Nanominerals: Prof Matthias Epple, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

-”Beer, Silicon and Health” lecture: Dr Jonathan Powell, MRC HNR, Cambridge, UK

-The Inorganics in Cancer, Imaging or Therapeutics: Prof Kevin Brindle, University of Cambridge and CRUK, Cambridge, UK

-Mineral Nutrition and Supplementation: Prof Michael B Zimmermann, Laboratory for Human Nutrition, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

-Mineral Nutrition and Supplementation: Dr Ann Prentice, MRC-HNR, Cambridge, UK

-Mineral Nutrition and Supplementation: Dr Margaret Rayman, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK

4th Silicon Workshop: Keynote Speakers

-The biology of Silicon: Prof Jian Feng Ma, Okayama University, Japan

The Elsie Widdowson Lecture

The Elsie Widdowson Lecture is an annual nutritional lecture to celebrate the life, contribution and outstanding achievements of the great UK nutritional scientist, Elsie Widdowson (FRS). This year’s lecture will be delivered by Sir Richard Thompson, President of the Royal College of Physicians, on Zinc Deficiency and Homeostasis.

The Elsie Widdowson Lecture will be held in the main auditorium of Homerton College, and is open to all conference and workshop delegates who have pre-registered (see registration) and by invitation to non-delegates. However, if you are not planning to attend either the Silicon Workshop or the Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine conference but wish to register an interest for invitation to the Elsie Widdowson Lecture then please contact Miss Eyre at:  philippa.eyre@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk