Venoms & Toxins 2024

We warmly invite you to attend our 2024 international toxinology conference “Venoms and Toxins 2024” which will be held on 27th -29th August 2024 as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event. Building on the successes of our past meetings, which demonstrated our commitment to a diverse and inclusive programme, our 2024 conference will maintain this scientific excellence and originality, offering the toxinology community another exciting scientific agenda.

Important Deadlines (subject to change without prior notice):

Oral Abstracts: 17 Jun 2024 | Early Registration: 05 Jul 2024 | Poster Abstracts: 12 Aug 2024 | Digital Posters and flash-talk videos: 20 Aug 2024 | Standard Registration: 26 Aug 2024

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VenOx24 Lifetime Achievement Award

We are delighted that Professor Cesare Montecucco will receive a lifetime achievement award at this conference for his extraordinary contributions to the field of toxinology. Professor Montecucco is currently a Scientist at the National Research Council, Institute of Neuroscience and Professor Emeritus at the University of Padova, Italy. Read more about Professor Montecucco here.

Confirmed Speakers

Professor Cesare Montecucco (Italy); Professor Sir David Warrell (UK); Professor José María Gutiérrez (Costa Rica); Professor Ana Maria Moura da Silva (Brazil); Professor Juan Calvete (Spain); Dr Naoual Oukkache (Morocco); Dr Nicklaus Brandehoff (USA); Dr Maria Vittoria Modica (Italy)

-more speakers to be announced soon-

Conference summary: The conference agenda will include most aspects of toxinology research. Our key priority scientific areas for this meeting include:

• New techniques for analysing venoms and antidotes (venomics, antivenomics)
• Clinical toxinology: novel treatments for victims of envenoming (small molecular weight venom enzyme inhibitors and novel antivenom designs)
• Biological interface: evolution of venoms; new venomous taxa; habits of venomous animals that bring them into contact with humans; conservation of toxifauna and toxiflora
• Snake venom/antivenom pharmacokinetics and dynamics and their applicability to snakebite diagnostics
• Neuropharmacology and neurophysiology
• Plant toxins
• Bacterial toxins

Get involved in shaping the conference agenda: We wish to invite the whole toxinology community to play an active role in designing the scientific programme of this meeting, whether you are planning to attend or not. We welcome proposals for:

>agenda topics
>keynote speakers
>Session speakers

We particularly encourage young researchers, including final-year doctoral students and early-/mid-career postdoctoral researchers/junior group leaders to play an active role in putting together regional (e.g., African, Asian, South American) and international ECR symposia on topics of their interest in the field of toxinology, and to submit their proposals to benefit from this valuable opportunity. Furthermore, we welcome proposals for focused/themed toxinology and educational symposia as main part of the conference agenda. The proponents would be expected to organise funding/sponsorship for their proposed symposia.

Please email your questions and suggestions to VenomsOxford@gmail.com.

Venoms and Toxins 2024 Scientific Advisors

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