forthcoming meetings [1] below.

You can also read reports of past meetings [2].

IFM website [3]. The call for abstracts is now open and the preliminary deadline is 31 May. Notification of acceptance will be on time for early registration.

Please see the meeting poster here [4].

IFM on "Splicing Regulation: from molecules to organisms", Berlin, 20-21 September 2010

Meeting Location: Berlin, Germany
Meeting date: 20-21 September 2010
Organisers: Javier Caceres and Karla Neugebauer

The aim of the meeting is to integrate continuing discoveries of splicing mechanisms with emerging principles of how splicing occurs and is regulated in living systems. Insights from biochemistry, advanced fluorescence live-cell microscopy, model organisms, and human disease will be presented and discussed in a retreat-like atmosphere in the heart of Berlin's artistic neighborhood, Prenzlauerberg.

Please note, participation is limited to 30.

The sessions begin at 9:00 on 20 September and finish after dinner on 21 September. Therefore, arrival is expected on 19 September and departure on 22 September. Accommodation at the GLS Language School on Kastanienallee has already been booked for all participants accordingly.

Registration and Abstract submission by email [5]. Deadline 30 July 2010.

Please see the preliminary programme [6] and a Meeting Poster [7].

Workshop and Symposium on Alternative Splicing and Genetic Disease

Meeting Location: Paris, France
Meeting date: 14-15 October 2010

ORGANIZERS: Diana BARALLE, Mario TOSI and Stefan STAMM

This two day event is targeted for clinical geneticists who are interested in diseaserelevant changes in alternative splicing, usually caused by a mutation. The first day is a workshop, which is divided in two parts: the first one on bioinformatics analysis of mutations that may have an impact on alternative splicing and the second one on the interpretation of sequence variants that affect splicing, in the molecular diagnostic context. Participants will have the opportunity to send their splicingrelated mutations and questions to the workshop organizers and these mutations will be discussed. The second day is a symposium that gives an overview of the current knowledge of alternative splicing as it relates to human diseases.

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS:
Gil AST (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Christiane BRANLANT (Nancy, France)
Emanuele BURATTI (Trieste, Italy)
Franco PAGANI (Trieste, Italy)
Elmar STICKELER (Freiburg, Germany)
Jamal TAZI (Montpellier, France)
Julian VENABLES (Montpellier, France)

Places for the 14 October Workshops is limited. Please register before 16 August.
Deadline for Workshop questions and for Symposium registration: 27 September.
Send application to: inserm.u614@univ-rouen.fr [8]
Fees: 60 euros
For more information, please have a look at the meeting flyer [9] or contact Mario Tosi [10].