The next meeting of the European Iron Club will be held at King’s College London from 13th to 15th September. The meeting will be held in association with the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group (IBDG), a group affiliated to both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the British Biophysical Society.

Thursday 13th:
6 pm – 8 pm Registration

Friday 14th:
9 am – 6 pm Oral/Poster presentations
7.30 pm Concert (Guy’s Chapel)

Saturday 15th:
9 am – 6 pm Oral/Poster presentations
7.30 pm Conference Dinner/River Thames Cruise

Local organisers: Rob Evans (robert.evans@kcl.ac.uk) & Bob Hider (robert.hider@kcl.ac.uk)
Local Meeting Secretary: Maryam Amini (eic-2007@kcl.ac.uk)
Local e-mail address for EIC2007: eic-2007@kcl.ac.uk

The meeting programme will comprise a small number of 30-minute “invited” talks together with 15-minute oral presentations/posters from submitted abstracts. The following people have agreed to give 30-minute talks:

Sue Fairweather-Tait, Norwich (Iron deficiency)
Andrew Gorringe, Salisbury (Bacterial iron metabolism)
Bob Hider, London (Iron and neurodegenerative diseases)
Alison May, Cardiff (Sideroblastic anaemia)
Fanis Missirlis, Bethesda/London (Drosophila as model system to study iron metabolism)
Martina Muckenthaler, Heidelberg (Haemochromatosis and the regulation of hepcidin)
Kaila Srai, London (Hepcidin: mechanism of action)
Swee Lay Thein, London (Sickle cell anaemia)

Jo Marx (Utrecht) will be giving the closing talk at the meeting.

Poster presentations will involve “Ward” rounds when authors will be given up to 3 minutes to present and discuss their posters to an audience in front of their poster.