Venoms 2016

Welcome to Venoms 2016: Making Sense of Venoms in Health and Disease

The Oxford Venoms symposium is back! Venoms 2016, the 3rd meeting, will address the various aspects of venoms and envenomation, including, but not limited to, venoms in drug discovery and pharmacology, antivenoms and treatment strategies, ion channel and inflammatory venoms, omics, and snake and arthropod bites and stings.

The symposium is aimed at providing an international platform to venom researchers from academia, industry and clinical settings and will feature:

>Oral presentations by an international faculty of senior and junior researchers
>Posters
>Trade exhibition
>Excellent networking opportunities, and a relaxed and friendly environment

Professor David Theakston will receive a life-time achievement award at this symposium…more about Professor Theakston…

Confirmed Speakers

Professor David Warrell (Keynote), University of Oxford, UK
Professor Dr Dietrich Mebs (Keynote), University of Frankfurt, Germany
Professor Cesare Montecucco (Keynote), University of Padova, Italy
Professor Julia Prado Franceschi (Keynote), UNICAMP, Brazil
Professor Juan Calvete, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, CSIC, Spain
Dr Robert Harrison, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Professor Philippe Billiald, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Dr Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, Technical University of Denmark & University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Denis Servent, CEA, France
Dr Ronald A Jenner, Head, Division of Invertebrates, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Professor Jeroen Kool, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Edward Rowan, University of Strathclyde, UK
Dr Nicholas Casewell, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Dr Anita Malhotra, Bangor University, UK
Dr Mikael Engmark, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr Ian Mellor, University of Nottingham, UK
Professor Peter Strong, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Miss Andrea Martos, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Miss Laura Droctové, CEA, France
Ms Fiona Bolton, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Dr Maya Gopalakrishnan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Professor Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Brazil