Invitation

International Conference

“Cell Migration in Development and Disease”

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch

Thursday, November 29 – Saturday, December 1, 2001, Berlin, FRG

 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Colleagues,

 

Cell migration is an important process in development. Frequently precursor cells are generated at one site in the embryo and then migrate over long distances to distant targets, where they differentiate. Migration processes in the embryo are well controlled, and migrating cells are generated during distinct stages and use characteristic and even invariant paths to reach their targets. Ordered migration of cells can also be observed in the adult, for instance in the immune system. Such well controlled processes are in contrast to the aberrant migration of cells in pathological  processes such as cancer.

 

I would like to cordially invite to this

 

International Conference

“Cell Migration in Development and Disease”

Thursday, November 29 – Saturday, December 1, 2001

 

Please note that the conference will take place on Thursday, November 29 at the

 

Meistersaal, Köthener Strasse 38, 10963 Berlin (at the Potsdamer Platz)

 

and on Friday, November 30, and Saturday, December 1, the conference will be continued at the

 

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch

MDC.C Communications Center

Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin

 

At the conference recent important insights on the molecular control of cell migration will be presented. The basic mechanisms and the molecules that allow cells to move or migrate in a directed manner will be discussed. How such molecules orchestrate development, in particular also the development of the nervous system, and how they ensure the correct functioning of  the immune system, will be presented. Finally, the basic findings are applied in the study of abberrant migration in tumour metastasis, which might ultimaly allow the interference with such health  threatening processes.

 

The conference is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Fondation) and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. More than 200 scientists from the USA, Australia, Israel, Japan, and various European countries will attend this conference. Organisers are Prof. Walter Birchmeier (MDC), Prof. Doris D. Wedlich (Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany), Dr. Carmen Birchmeier and Dr. Martin Lipp (both MDC).

 

Enclosed, please find the programme for the conference, maps (section of Berlin and the Berlin-Buch Campus), an itinerary and a reply form which I kindly ask you to fill out and send back to the MDC Press Department. For accommodation we kindly ask you to to fill out the enclosed form and send it to the “DER Deutsches Reisebüro”, Ms Annemarie van der Hoff (Fax: 0049/30-21-18 150; Phone: 0049/30-21-99 89 97).

 

I look forward to meeting you at this very interesting conference in Berlin.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Barbara Bachtler

 

Pressestelle
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
13125 Berlin
Barbara Bachtler
Tel: 030/94 06 - 38 96
Fax: 030/94 06 - 38 33
e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
http://www.mdc-berlin.de/ueber_das_mdc/presse/index.htm

 

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