About Nature Conferences
The Nature Publishing Group is distinguished by its scientific excellence, breadth of coverage, timeliness of topics, and commitment to clear scientific communication. In keeping with this tradition, Nature conferences are aimed at the international scientific community, with the goal of fostering and facilitating communication and collaboration between scientists. We are proud to present these unique events (some in concert with specific institutions) that will become essential resources for the researchers of today and tomorrow.
Calendar 2008
September 29, 2008
Cell Shape and Polarity: Lymphocytes and Beyond
Venue: Gleacher Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Organizers: Christine Borowski (Nature Immunology, USA), Alison Schuldt (Nature Cell Biology, UK), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)
August 8-10, 2008
Venue: Googleplex, Mountain View, California
Organizers: O'Reilly Media, Nature Publishing Group, Google
July 12-17, 2008
Genetics — Understanding Living Systems: XX International Congress of Genetics 2008
Venue: International Congress Center (ICC), Berlin, Germany
Organizers: Rudi Balling (HZI Braunschweig, Germany), Alfred Nordheim (Tuebingen University, Germany), Charles Langley (University of California Davis, USA)
June 6, 2008
Multiple Sclerosis: From Pathogenesis to Therapy
Venue: Espace Charles-Louis-Havas, Paris, France
Organizers:Eva Chmielnicki (Nature Medicine, USA), Laurie Dempsey (Nature Immunology, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)
May 20, 2008
Bioentrepreneur Roundtable: Bioentrepreneur beware: CEO war stories on investor nightmares
Venue: The Meritage Resort, Napa, CA
Organizer:Nature Biotechnology
March 31, 2008
Venue: Hotel Icon, Houston, TX, USA
Organizers: Sandra Aamodt (Nature Neuroscience, USA), Emily Niemitz (Nature Genetics, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)
February 22-23, 2008
Nature Chemical Biology Symposium 2008: Chemical Neurobiology
Venue: The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, USA
Organizers: Nature Chemical Biology and The New York Academy of Sciences
February 10-13, 2008
Ringberg Colloquia 2008: Determinism and plasticity of T lymphocytes
Venue: Schloss Ringberg, Tergernsee, Germany
Organizers: Stefan Kaufmann (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany), Douglas Braaten (Nature Immunology, USA), Vijay K. Kuchroo (Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard University, USA), Jamie Wilson (Nature Immunology, USA), Harmut Wekerle (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany), Rudolf Grosschedl (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Germany)
February 2-6, 2008
Miami 2008 Winter Symposium: Regulatory RNA in Biology and Human Health
Venue: Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida
Organizers: University Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Foundation, Inc., The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Nature Medicine, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Biotechnology, Scripps Florida. Miami 2009 Winter Symposium
January 10-13, 2008
Symposium on Biological Complexity: Genes, Circuits and Behavior
Venue: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California
Organizers: Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France), Fred Gage (Salk Institute, USA), Sue Deeley (Nature Publishing Group, USA), Inder Verma (Salk Institute, USA)
Calendar 2007
November 28, 2007
Genome Evolution and Structural Variation: Next Steps in Natural Human Genetic Variation
Venue: The Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA
Organizers:Orli Bahcall (Nature Genetics), Veronique Kiermer (Nature Methods), Evan Eichler (University of Washington, USA), Deborah Nickerson (University of Washington, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)
November 11, 2007
Venue: Grand Elysee Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
Organizer: Nature Biotechnology
October 23-25, 2007
Optical communication: perspectives on next generation technologies
Venue: Tokyo Fashion Town Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Organizers: Nature Photonics, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, Impress R&D
October 21-24, 2007
The Nature Colloquia on Biomedicine: Colloquium on Inflammation
Venue: The Park Hotel Villa Grazioli, Rome, Italy
Organizers: Alan Ezekowitz (Merck & Co., Inc., USA), Robert L. Coffman (Dynavax Technologies, USA), Diane Mathis (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, USA), Charles N. Serhan (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA), Ursula Weiss (Nature, UK), Clare Thomas (Nature Medicine, UK)
October 18-20, 2007
Aging 2007: From bench to bedside
Venue: Torrey Pines Hilton Hotel, La Jolla, California, USA
Organizers:Salvatore Albani (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Michael Basson (Nature Medicine), Gary S. Firestein (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Dilip Jeste (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute), Ravindra Mehta (University of California, San Diego Clinical Investigation Institute)
October 14-16, 2007
Translational Approaches to Cardiovascular Research
Venue: Palazzo dei Congressi Di Capri, Capri, Italy
Organizers: Gianluigi Condorelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Elizabeth Nabel (National Institutes of Health, USA), Michael Basson (Nature Medicine, USA)
October 8-10, 2007
Cancer Therapeutics: The Road Ahead
Venue: Palazzo dei Congressi Di Capri, Capri, Italy
Organizers: Chair: Tak W. Mak (Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Canada), Ritu Dhand (Nature, UK)
October 3-6, 2007
Oncogenes and Human Cancer: The Next 25 Years
Venue: Palacete de los Duques de Pastrana, Madrid, Spain
Organizers: Mariano Barbacid (CNIO, Spain), Ezzie Hutchinson (Nature Reviews Cancer), David Lane (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore), Chris Marshall (The Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, UK), Barbara Marte (Nature), Frank McCormick (UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA), Bernd Pulverer (Nature Cell Biology), Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Bert Vogelstein (Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA), Karen Vousden (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, USA), Robert Weinberg (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Nicola McCarthy (Nature Reviews Cancer)
October 3, 2007
Small RNAs in Development, Immunology and Cancer
Venue: The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, USA
Organizers: Boyana Konforti (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA), Jamie Wilson (Nature Immunology, USA), Sabbi Lall (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, USA), Christine Borowski (Nature Immunology, USA), Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, France)
July 7-10, 2007
The Genomics of Common Diseases
Venue: The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Timothy Aitman (Imperial College London, UK), David Altshuler (Broad Institute; Harvard Medical School, USA), Myles Axton (Nature Genetics, USA), Edward M. Rubin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
May 22-24, 2007
DMM 2007: Emerging Technologies and Cancer Biology
Venue: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Organizers: Randall Peterson (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School), Daniel Haber (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School), Jesper Z. Haeggströ (Karolinska Institutet), Alison Farrell (Nature Medicine)
March 11-13, 2007
TACBAC 07: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry 2007
Venue: Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambs, UK
Organizers: Kathy Aschheim (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Cath Brooksbank (EMBL-EBI, UK), Liz Ford (EMBL-EBI, UK), Sara Girard (Nature Publishing Group, USA), Peter Kirkpatrick (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, UK), Andrew Marshall (Nature Biotechnology, USA), Paul Matthews (EMBL-EBI, UK)
March 8-11, 2007
Forefronts Symposium on Nephrogenetics: From Development to Physiology
Venue: Sheraton Ferncroft Resorts, Danvers, MA
Co-Chairs: Myles Axton (Editor, Nature Genetics, USA), Qais Al-Awqati (Columbia University, USA)
March 5-6, 2007
MGH-HKU-Nature China Forum Molecular Medicine and Biopharma Opportunities
Venue: William MW Mong Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Organizers: Massachusetts General Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Nature Publishing Group
January 27-31, 2007
Miami 2007 Winter Symposium: Innate Immunity and Novel Vaccines
Venue: Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida
Organizers: The University of Miami, Nature Publishing Group, Scripps Florida
January 11-14, 2007
Symposium on Biological Complexity: Diseases of Transcription
Venue: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California
Organizers: Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, Paris), Ron Evans (Salk Institute, La Jolla), Beatrice Renault (Nature Publishing Group), Inder Verma (Salk Institute, La Jolla)
Calendar 2006
18-19 December 2006
25 Years of Embryonic Stem Cells
Venue: Babbage Lecture Theater, Cambridge, UK
Organizers: Azim Surani, (University of Cambridge, UK), Natalie DeWitt, (Nature San Francisco), Austin Smith, (University of Cambridge, UK)
December 3-6, 2006
Ringberg Colloquia 2006: Self Organization and Morphogenesis in Biological Systems
Venue: Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany
Organizers: Kai Simons (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics), Eric Karsenti (EMBL), Daniel St Johnston (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge), Cornelis Weijer (University of Dundee), Sowmya Swaminathan (Nature Cell Biology)
November 10-11, 2006
Nature Chemical Biology Annual Symposium: The Chemical Biology of the Cell
Venue: Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Organizers: Nature Chemical Biology editorial team