Future NZSBMB Conferences

 

2009 NZSBMB Conference December 6th – 10th 2009

In 2009 we host Combio 2009, a joint meeting with the Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,  New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists and the Australian Society of Plant Scientists.  Other New Zealand Societies are being invited.

• Location   Christchurch Town Hall and Convention centre
• Programme and website.

Related previous meeting in NZ

Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting and Satellites, Queenstown, 2nd-4th September 2008 (Satellites 31st-6th Sept)

AMATA 2008 High Throughput Biotechnologies Into The Future The 8th Annual Australasian Microarray and Associated Technologies (AMATA) Conference November 11-15th Dunedin, New Zealand.

Previous NZSBMB conferences

 

2008 NZSBMB Conference, Chemistry and the Biosphere, November 30th – Dec 4th 2008. The 2008 Conference was be a joint conference with the Institute of Chemistry (NZIC) and the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists (NZSPB) at Otago University, Dunedin. The programme outline is available from the conference website.

Keynote speakers included (biographies are on the conference website)

• Professor Marten Wikstrom, The Chemistry of Cell Respiration, Institute of Biotechnology, Structural Biology and Biophysics Programme,  University of Helsinki, Finland
• Dr Sami Damak,How Do We Taste Our Food? Taste Receptors in the Mouth and in the Gut, Senior Research Scientist, Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland
• Professor Chris Hunter, Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK
• Professor Max Coleman, Searching for Life on Mars, Principal Scientist and Senior Research Scientist Science Division Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, USA.
• Associate Professor Ben Hankamer, Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Australia.

2007 The annual conference was combined with the NZ Microbiology Society at the VUW Pipitea campus.

2007 Inaugural meeting on Signal transduction, Crosstalk, Auckland, Friday 13th July 2007. Held in conjunction with the Auckland Branch. Abstracts and Report on this successful meeting.

2007 Canterbury Branch meeting - Miniconference September 3rd Linclon University. Sir John Walker, Nobel Laureate presented. More Information (flyer) .

2006 The annual conference was combined with Combio Brisbane

 

Executive contacts

President: Dave Palmer, Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury
Phone: Ph +64-3-325-2811 x8136
Email: Palmerd @ lincoln.ac.nz

Treasurer: Steven Gieseg, Free Radical Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences,
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140
Email: steven.gieseg @ canterbury.ac.nz

Secretary: Jim Morton, Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury