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Welcome
IXth International Conference on Lactoferrin (9th ILC) Structure, Function and Applications will be held in Beijing Friendship Hotel (Beijing, China) from October 18 to 22nd of 2009, it will be followed by the first Chinese Lactoferrin Conference (www.lactoferrin.net.cn) during 22-23rd, October 2009.
Lactoferrin is an extracellular iron binding glycoprotein that first identified in milk secretions and functions as a key component of the mammalian immune defense. The conference on lactoferrin structure, function and applications brings together individuals from academia, industry and government with diverse backgrounds and interests who share a common interest in the research of this fascinating glycoprotein and its potential applications. During the meeting, scientists from widely different fields will closely introduce the latest high-tech developments of lactoferrin and its derivatives and exchange of ideas extensively. It also provides the opportunity to identify the outstanding questions pertaining to the detailed mechanisms of action that need to be addressed in order to optimally exploit its therapeutic potential. Recently, lactoferrin has been introduced into infant formula because of its potential health effects as we know. The growing recognition of the potential benefits of lactoferrin in preventative and therapeutic applications has resulted in an increasing level of interest and participation by commercial companies.
History
The First two conferences on Lactoferrin were held in Hawaii, America in 1993 and 1995. The latest two conferences were held in Hawaii, America (2005) and Nice, France (2007) respectively. Particularly, the size of the conference has grown to about 150 participants in the 8th international lactoferrin (www.lactoferrin-conference.com/2007) conference held in Boscolo Plaza Hotel, Nice (France). Because all participants stayed at one venue, there was a high level of interaction and exchange among the researchers, manufacturers and salesmen from different disciplines, academia as well as industry in the world.
Concluding remarks from the VIII th Conference
(by Professor and Dr. Tony Schryvers, University of Calgary, Canada, unchecked by the speaker)
The International Conferences on Lactoferrin have been held biennially since 1993. Their primary goal is to bring together researchers representing different perspectives, and from different backgrounds, together with all those who are interested in the applications of this fascinating protein.
The VIIIth conference (www.lactoferrin-conference.com/2007) was successfully held in Nice, France, during 21-25 October 2007. Review lectures covering lots of aspects of lactoferrin and its antimicrobial peptides, gene regulation and expression, ligands interactions, signal transduction, cell proliferation and differentiation, immuno-modulating effects, recombinant and transgenic lactoferrins. Some notable features of this meeting included steady progress in characterizing lactoferrin receptors – at last we are beginning to understand its interactions with cells – and some very exciting applications to important aspects of human health. Prominent characters among these are immuno-modulatory and anti-inflammatory activities, regulation of cell cycle and apoptosis and growth-promoting activity. Finally, with bovine lactoferrin widely available through the dairy industry of a number of countries, and with human lactoferrin available from transgenic rice, transgenic cows and fungal expression, interest in its applications is growing rapidly.
Overall, this was an exceptionally good meeting. The venue and size (about 150 participants) allowed for easy interactions, over meals or at the poster sessions, and the combination of broad scientific underpinning, new discoveries, and applications makes a recipe for success.
Special thanks are due to the dynamic duo of Annick Pierce and Dominique Legrand, who organized the conference. We look forward eagerly to the next meeting in 2009.
Nice in 2007
Some very good memories : Science and Tourism ...
Click on the photos to go to the VIIIth Lactoferrin Conference Website.
Photos by M. Carpentier
Abstracts and articles of the VIIIth International Conference on Lactoferrin have been published in Biochimie, Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 1-164 (January 2009).
Contents of Biochimie vol. 91 (2009) available here
Abstracts and articles of the VIIth International Conference on Lactoferrin have been published in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Volume 84, Number 3, June 2006.
Contents of BCB vol. 84 (2006) available here
Location & Accommodation
The IXth international conference on lactoferrin (9th ILC) structure, function and applications will be held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel (http://www.bjfriendshiphotel.com/english/index.asp) (Beijing, China).
Beijing Yanshan Hotel (http://www.yanshanhotel.com/en/reservation.html) and other alternative hotel details are shown in Location & Accommodation Page.
Click on the photos to go to the Beijing Friendship Hotel website
  
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| Direction (33 Kilometers) | Hours of operation | Approximate cost | Travelling time |
| Airport → Friendship Hotel | 5:00am -- 11:00pm 11:00pm -- 5:00am |
110 RMB or 16 USD 165 RMB or 24 USD |
40 min (non rush hour) or 1 h 20 min (rush hour) |
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| Direction | Route | Get off | Travelling time | Approximate cost | Interval | First Bus | Last Bus | 24hrs service hotline |
| Airport → Friendship Hotel | No. 4 (Capital Airport - Gongzhufen) | Station 7: Friendship Hotel | 50 min (non rush hour) or 2 h (rush hour) | 16 RMB or 2.3 USD | 30mins | 7:00 | 23:00 | 86-10-6455 8720 |
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Registration
Early registration deadline for the conference should be extended into September 15th, 2009 (€600) from July 1st, 2009, via the Electronic Registration Form (link below). Particularly, registration for graduate students is half price (€300). However, it will be then possible to register until September 30th, 2009 (€90 extra fee for regular registration and €45 extra fee for student registration). You will be invited to fill in your personal details online (www.lactoferrin-conference.com), to indicate your accommodation preferences, and to pay both registration and accommodation fees.
To obtain detailed information about the accommodation facilities, please consult the Location & Accommodation Page.
Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows under 35 years old and applicants for Student Awards must indicate their date of birth. Moreover, they must forward by fax (0086-10-82106054; 82106079) a photocopy of the page of their passport displaying their photo, family name, first name, birth date ...
Please note that the registration fees include:
Admission to scientific sessions,
Program and Abstract book,
Welcome Evening Banquet (October 18, 2009),
Lunches and dinners at the Beijing Friendship Hotel (October 19, 20, 21, 22, 2009), Coffee Breaks & Refreshments, and water during the sessions.
Go to the Electronic Registration Form
Note
All registered attendants may have a self-guided tourism for half a day in the afternoon of October 21st, 2009. Besides, the accompanying persons may have 2 or 3 days self-funded tourism. The application and arrangement of the travel group in China Travel Service Head Office or other international travel agency could be supplied by Local Organizing Committee. Particularly, the choice of accompanying persons of attendants for tourism must be marked out in the registration. The candidate tourist attractions are Terra Cotta Warriors of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum in Xi’an, Badaling Great Wall in Beijing or other world-famous tourist spots in China.
***Self-funded tourism of 9th International Lactoferrin Conference***
The self-funded tourism contains watching opera and visiting The Palace Museum. You can choose one or both of them. We will set up a table where you signing in the conference on Oct. 18, 2009. You would make your tourism choice and pay the fare by Chinese YUAN (RMB) at that time. There is a banking agency (CURRENCY CHANGE) in the Beijing Friendship Hotel, you can exchange Chinese YUAN (RMB) with the common currency (except Thai Baht and Won).
A) Watch the Star Version of Yueju Opera "The Butterfly Lovers" at Oct 20, 2009 (7:30pm-9:30pm)
---- The Butterfly Lovers (Chinese: 梁山伯与祝英台) is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (祝英台), whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu (梁祝) and often regarded as the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. Six cities in the People's Republic of China have collaborated in 2004 on a formal application for the Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on the legend at UNESCO, submitted in 2006 through the Chinese Ministry of Culture, you can browse more detail via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Lovers
18:45-19:30, Oct 20
After dinner, go to ‘National Centre for the Performing Arts’ (http://www.chncpa.org/n16/welcome.html) by the Tourist Bus from Beijing Friendship Hotel.
19:30-21:30, Oct 20
Watch the opera “The Butterfly Lovers”.
21:45-22:30, Oct 20
Return to Beijing Friendship Hotel.
COST:
(1) Double Bus fare: 30 RMB per person.
(2) Ticket of the opera: 480 RMB per person.
Totally, 30 + 480 = 510 RMB.
B) Self-funded Tourism at Oct 21, 2009 (14:00-19:00)
12:45-13:30, Oct 21
After lunch, go to THE PALACE MUSEUM (http://www.dpm.org.cn/) together by the Tourist Bus from Beijing Friendship Hotel.
----A Brief History of the Palace Museum Established in 1925, the Palace Museum was installed in the imperial palace of two consecutive dynasties - the Ming (1368-1644) and the Qing (1644-1911). The magnificent architecture, also known as the Forbidden City, and the vast holding of the imperial collections of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and decorative objects make it one of the most prestigious museums in China and the world at large. In 1961 the imperial palace was designated by the State Council as one of China's foremost-protected cultural heritage sites, and in 1987 was made a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Palace Museum Situated at the heart of Beijing, the Palace Museum is approached through the Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tian'an men). Immediately to the north of the Palace Museum is Prospect Hill (also called Coal Hill), while on the east and west are Wangfujing and Zhongnanhai neighborhoods. The location was endowed with cosmic significance by ancient China's astronomers. They correlated the emperor's abode, which they considered the pivot of the terrestrial world, with the Pole Star (Ziwei yuan), which they believed to be at the center of the heavens. Because of its centrality as well as restricted access, the palace was called The Forbidden City. It was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle Emperor (r. 1403-1420) who, upon usurping the throne, determined to move his capital northward from Nanjing to Beijing. The Ming dynasty fell to the Manchu Qing in 1644 and in 1911 the Qing dynasty was overthrown by the republican revolutionaries. The last emperor Puyi (ruled from 1909 to 1911 under the reign name Xuantong) continued to live in the palace after his abdication until he was expelled in 1924. During nearly six hundred years, twenty-four emperors lived and ruled from this palace.
The Forbidden City is surrounded by 10-metre-high walls and a 52-metre-wide moat…….,
13:30-18:00, Oct 21
Visit The Palace Museum. There will be an English guide with the team. You can also choose a self-guided sightseeing, and gather in the appointed place which will be confirmed at that day.
18:30-19:30, Oct 21
Return to the Beijing Friendship Hotel
19:00–21:30, Oct 21
Gala Dinner
COST:
(1) Double bus fare: 30 RMB per person.
(2) Ticket of The Palace Museum: 60 RMB.
Totally, 30 + 60 = 90 RMB.
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Abstracts, Posters & Exhibits
You are invited to submit your abstract, for oral, poster or exhibit communications, no later than September 15th, 2009 (extended deadline).
Please fill in the Electronic Abstract Submission Form (link below). Final formatting of the Abstracts will be made by the Organizing Committee. Therefore, you do not have to use a particular font, line spacing, and so on ...
However, the following Instructions must be followed :
About the Presenting Author :
Indicate the name and coordinates of the Presenting Author in the appropriate fields.
Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows under 35 and applicants for Student Awards must indicate their date of birth.
Indicate the type of presentation you want to submit: Oral, Poster or Commercial Exhibit.
The abstract must be submitted in English.
Do not use capital letters, except at the beginning of sentences, of proper names, or when absolutely required.
Indicate the title of the presentation in less than 25 words.
Indicate the names of authors with the given name, then the family name of each author, in full and separated by a comma. For example, three authors: "John Weyland, Mary Westwater, Andrew Whatcott."
The address(es) of the author(s) must be indicated in full. When two or more addresses are listed, a number (1, 2, ...) must precede each address. This number must be put directly after the family name of each author. For example: "John Weyland1, Mary Westwater2, Andrew Whatcott2."
The abstract must contain no more than 300 words(with references, if included).
The use of standard abbreviations is desirable. Please place special or unusual abbreviations in parentheses after the first use of the full word.
Simple tables may be included within the abstract if they fit within the box form.
Use arabic numerals for all numbers.
 This is the photo of four assembled poster shelves. The final quantities of assembled units are determined by the size of meeting room. The available area of one poster shelf is 90 cm * 240 cm. |
Student Awards
The Genevieve Spik Award will be, for the first time, chosen and given into the best student from their submission and report, this winner and a limited number (up to 10) of selected qualified Students/Post-doctoral Fellows under 35 years old will receive a sum of about €600 intended to cover their accommodation fees for 5 nights in an economic Hotel (Jingyou Hotel, just located in the east-southern corner of the garden of main conference hall or main hotel — Beijing Friendship Hotel, their distance is less 100 meters, to get there takes only 3 min by foot), their participation at the Gala Dinner (October 21st) and to reimburse their registration fees.
Applicants are invited to submit an abstract for an oral presentation to be given during the Conference.
Applicants are requested to fill in both the Electronic Registration Form and the Electronic Abstract Submission Form. Caution: the birth date of the applicant must be indicated in both Abstract and Registration Forms. Moreover, they must forward by fax (0086-10-82106054/ 82106079) a photocopy of the page of their passport displaying their photo, family name, first name, birth date, ...
In addition to the Abstract Submission, a short letter from the applicant's Supervisor is requested. The Supervisor is asked to provide a brief synopsis of the applicant's overall contribution to the work being presented, as well as a summary of the resources available for the applicant's attendance at the conference. This letter must be e-mailed, faxed or sent by mail to Prof., Dr. Wang Jianhua, the Chairman of the 9th International Lactoferrin Conference.
The Student Award Abstracts and accompanying Supervisor letters must be submitted before Saturday August 15th, 2009. The applicants will be advised of the decision of the Organizing Committee before September 15th, 2009.
Organization
By the formal approval of Professor Dr. Bo LONNERDAL on behalf of the International Lactoferrin Conference Scientific Organizing Committee, the organization for the IXth International Lactoferrin Conference (9th ILC) is being headed by Pr.Dr. Wang Jianhua as the Chairman of this conference in Beijing 2009.
Organization and members of the IXth International Lactoferrin Conference (9th ILC)
The co-host organizers of the IXth International Lactoferrin Conference (9th ILC) include the following organizations:
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Friesland Foods Domo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Beijing
Shanghai Genon Bio-engineering Co. Ltd. (Shanghai Transgenic Research Center)
State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University
Address of the Scientific Secretariat:
Gene Engineering Laboratory, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, N° 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie St., Beijing 100081, P. R. China. Tel: +86-10-82106079, 82106081; Fax: +86-10-82106079, 82106054; E-mail:jhwangfribio@yahoo.com.cn; wangjianhua@mail.caas.net.cn.
the International Scientific Committee
the Local Organizing Committee
Pr. Dr. Edward N. BAKER (New Zealand)
Pr. Dr. Huiyi CAI
(China)
Dr. Jeremy H. BROCK (UK)
Pr. Dr. Guoxiang CHENG (Co-chair, China)
Pr. Dr. Bo LONNERDAL
(Chair, USA)
Pr. Dr. Ning LI (Co-chair, China)
Dr. Joel MAZURIER (France)
Dr. Zhengdong LI (China)
Pr. Dr. Annick PIERCE (France)
Ms. Laura PIERSON (Co-chair, USA)
Pr. Dr. Anthony SCHRYVERS (Canada)
Dr. Jean-Paul PERRAUDIN (Belgium)
Pr. Dr. Kei-ichi SHIMAZAKI (Japan)
Dr. Mamoru TOMITA
(Japan)
Pr. Dr. Hiroyuki TSUDA (Japan)
Pr. Dr. Jianhua WANG
(Chair, China)
Pr. Dr. Piera VALENTI (Italy)
Pr. Dr. Zongli WANG (China)
Pr. Dr. Jianhua WANG
(China)
Pr. Dr. Huqu ZHAI (China)
Sponsors
Companies which sponsor the IXth International Lactoferrin Conference (Beijing 2009) are:
Please, click on the logos to visit Sponsor's Websites.
| ***** Top Sponsors ***** |
| Shanghai Genon Bio-engineering & Co., Ltd (Shanghai Transgenic Research Center) |
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| Friesland Foods Domo |
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| ***** Platinum Sponsors ***** |
| Morinaga & Co., Ltd |
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| Taradon Laboratory |
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| ***** Gold Sponsors ***** |
| Pharming Group N.V. |
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| ***** Silver Sponsors ***** |
| TATUA Co-Operative Dairy Co. |
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| Pall - Food and Beverage |
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| Westland Milk Products |
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| ***** Ivory Sponsors ***** |
| NRL Pharma, Inc. |
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| Belgomilk |
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| Favea |
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| New Baili International Industry & Trade Co., Ltd |
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The Local Organizing Committee of the IXth Lactoferrin Conference (9th ILC) is also supported by the following academic organisms:
Please, click on the logos to visit Organism's Websites.
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