The tradition of European Meiosis Meetings will be continued!

The first and the second meeting took place in Obertraun, Austria in 1990 (Group photo) and 1995, the third in Wageningen, The Netherlands, in 1997, and the fourth again in Obertraun in 1999 (Group photo).

At the last meeting, many members of the European meiosis research community had expressed their hope for another meeting in two years time. Therefore we are organizing the 5th European Meiosis Meeting as a session of the Annual Main Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB).

The main meeting of the SEB will have 25 longer and shorter parallel and consecutive sessions covering a wide range of biological research falling into the three main sections of the SEB: plants, animals and cell biology. Special lectures will be organized by SEB during the week and we will schedule our session such that participation will be possible. For more information check the SEB web site.

In the Meiosis Meeting/Session, invited and contributed papers and posters will cover all aspects of meiotic research with a focus on results from new molecular, cell biological and genomic approaches.We will follow the tradition of the previous meetings at Obertraun and Wageningen and will allow for plenty of time for interactions and poster sessions besides six half day lecture sessions.

Sessions at the SEB Meeting (PDF)  

We are looking forward to seeing you in Canterbury!

Trude Schwarzacher

Josef Loidl

We want to keep costs and administrative effort as low as possible. Therefore the main way of communication will be by e-mail and the WWW.

Please bookmark our website and visit it now and then as we will continuously add details of registration, travel information, and the tentative programme.

Last updated: February 9, 2001

Programme:

See the tentative schedule and Mirror

Information for Poster Presenters and Mirror

Conference fees:

SEB full member: £100
Non-member: £160
Young Scientist SEB member: £75
Young Scientist non-member: £135
Student SEB member: £30
Student non-member: £50

Accomodation and meals:

Accommodation will be at the University of Kent Campus (£20/night standard bed & breakfast; £33/night ensuite bed & breakfast). Lunch costs £ 8.50 and dinner £ 9. IMPORTANT: When you fill in the registration documents, please indicate that you are attending the MEIOSIS SESSION C2 if you want to be booked in the "Meiosis" Hall. (SEB has reserved a Hall for meals and accomodation for participants in the Meiosis session.) The Meiosis Hall will only have standard rooms with showers and toilets on the corridor normally shared between a few rooms. This means that, if you prefer an en-suite arrangement, you will be booked into another Hall.

Registration:

Please contact Trude Schwarzacher! You will then receive the programme and booking form for Accomodation and Conference Fee.

Social Events:

Excursions are planned for Wednesday and Friday afternoons to Canterbury Cathedral and Dover Castle.

Contacts:

The 5th European Meiosis Meeting (SEB Meiosis Session C2) 2001 is organized by

Trude Schwarzacher Department of Biology, University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH, UK	Josef Loidl Institute of Botany, University of Vienna Rennweg 14, A-1030, Vienna, Austria
Phone: +44 (0) 116 252 3381 FAX: +44 (0) 116 252 2791	Phone: +43 1 4277 54022
e-mail: ts32@le.ac.uk or: meiosis@genome.waitrose.com	e-mail: Josef.Loidl@univie.ac.at
Society for Experimental Biology Burlington House Piccadilly London W1V 0LQ Phone: +44 (0) 20 7439 8732 , FAX: +44 (0) 20 7287 4786 e-mail: seb@sebiology.com

Travel:

Several discount airlines have recently been set up that offer flights from many European destinations to London Stansted or Luton for £80-130 return and no need to stay a Saturday night (see the world wide web at Buzzaway.com; Go-fly.com; Ryanair.com; or Easyjet.com).

Canterbury is in the Southeast of England near Dover. It can be reached from Central London and Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton Airports by bus or train. See the map of the location of the University of Kent Campus.