Cambridge UK July 19-23 2009
10th International workshop: Mucins in Health and Disease
Meeting will commence in the afternoon of Sunday, 19th July, and concludes after lunch on Thursday,23rd July

SESSIONS

• Control of mucin expression
• Tools and Technologies
• Functional interactions of transmembrane mucins: Intracellular signalling
• Interactions of mucins with lectins, galectins and immune effector cells
• Protection of mucosal surfaces: Gel forming mucins and the formation of mucus
• Mucins in infection and disease: normal flora and pathogens
• Mucins, mucin type O-glycosylation and cell fate
• Mucins in the clinic: Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches

INVITED SPEAKERS & CHAIRS

Bruce Acres, Linda Baum, Kermit Carraway, Stephen Carrington, Henrik Clausen, Paul Cullen, Anne Dell, Ten Feizi, Sandra Gendler, Thomas Gerken, Ilene Gipson, Jeffrey Gordon, Robert Haltiwanger, Gunnar Hansson, Franz-Georg Hanisch, Tony Hollingsworth, Tatsuro Irimura, Young Kim, Roger McEver, Mike McGuckin, Usha Menon, James Paulson, John Sheehan, Caetano Reis e Sousa, Pauline Rudd, Dallas Swallow, David Thornton, Isabelle van Seuningen, Silvia von mensdorff-Pouilly, Daniel Wreschner, Lijun Xiu

Joy Burchell
Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou

Mrs Gursharn Hutchins, King’s College London, Research Oncology, Division of Cancer Studies, Breast Cancer Biology Group, 3rd Floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Tel: +44 20 7188 4260 Fax: +44 20 7188 0919 E-mail: gursharn.hutchins@kcl.ac.uk