Personnel

Session Chairs and Keynote Speakers

   Below is a current list of session chairs and keynote speakers. This list is provisional and subject to change.

Saturday the 26th:

Plenary Speakers

Professor Andrzej Górski

Phage Therapy Unit, L.Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, 53114 Wroclaw, Poland.

Dr. Richard Fisher

Neurophage Ltd., 245 First Street, Suite 1800, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

Dr. David Harper

BioControl Ltd., Latimer House 5 Cumberland Place Southampton Hampshire.

 

Sunday the 27th:

Vaccines, gene therapy and drug delivery vehicles

Session Chair: Dr. John March - CEO, BigDNA, Inc., Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Keynote Speaker:  Professor Renata Pasqualini - The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

Food safety, agriculture and aquaculture

Session Chair: Dr. Andrew Hudson - Senior Scientist, Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steven Hagens - Chief Scientific Officer, EBI Food Safety, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

 

Monday the 28th:

Phage therapy

Session Chair: Revaz Adamia - Director, G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Mzia Kutateladze - G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Phages in the environment

Session Chair: Professor Maggie Smith - Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Mead - President, Lucigen Corp., 2120 W Greenview Dr, Middleton, Wisconsin, USA.

 

Tuesday the 29th:

Bioengineering and genomics

Session Chair: Professor John Ward - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, UK.

Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Valery Petrenko - Department of Pathobiology, Auburn University, Alabama, USA.

Novel phage proteins: diagnostics, antimicrobials and other applications

Session Chair: Professor Cath Rees - School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, UK.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Vincent A. Fischetti - Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10021

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