3rd Conference on fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis

[Simon Eaton]

3rd Fatty Acid Oxidation & Ketogenesis Conference

         Saturday 7th to Monday 9th September 1996, Institute of Child Health, 
London 


The Third International Conference on Fatty Acid Oxidation and Ketogenesis 
will be held in London this
year, at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for 
Children NHS Trust,
University of London, from Saturday 7th to Monday 9th September 1996, 
immediately after the
Biochemical Society Meeting at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of 
London (4-6
September). It is being held over the weekend in order to allow delegates to 
purchase cheap flights. The
Conference Chairman and Organizer is Dr Patti Quant, and the Meeting Secretary 
is Dr Simon Eaton. 

This year it will be necessary for us to charge a registration fee of £100 for 
senior participants and £66
for postgraduate students and postdoctoral workers under the age of 27 years. 
The fee will cover the
cost of all refreshments and meals during the entire Meeting (including the 
Conference Dinner but excluding breakfasts), hiring
the rooms, equipment and catering staff, publicity and notebooks, tourist 
information and maps, badges etc. but will not cover
accommodation. As before, we shall be happy to send information on travel, 
hotels etc. and organize and book
accommodation of the kind required if you would like us to do so.

The sessions will be:

   1.Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase I, II etc. & the carnitine carrier
   2. Mitochondrial HMG-CoA synthase etc. & ketogenesis
   3. Mitochondrial beta-oxidation & the electron transfer chain
   4. Peroxisomal beta-oxidation
   If you and/or members of your group would like to attend/participate, 
please contact Dr Patti Quant as soon as possible in
order to allow us to prepare a timetable, list of speakers etc.

   Dr Patti A. Quant
   Unit of Paediatric Surgery
   Institute of Child Health
   30 Guilford Street
   LONDON
   WC1N 1EH
   Phone: +44 171 242 9789 ext. 2136
   Fax: + 44 171 404 6181
   E-Mail: P.Quant at ich.ucl.ac.uk 

Details of invited participants etc. are available at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nchwww/faoxk.html

Simon Eaton
Meeting Secretary