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Campylobacter - an Irish perspective: RELAY WORKSHOP
RELAY, the Irish dissemination service charged with communicating the results of publicly
funded food research to the Irish food industry, hosted a Campylobacter workshop on October 24 2007 in Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin. For details, see http://www.relayresearch.ie/.
CHRO 2007 Workshop
The 14th International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms (CHRO) took place in
Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 2-5 September 2007. For details, including the conference abstract book, see http://www.chro2007.nl/.
International Conference and Workshop 2005
An international conference titled ‘Campylobacter Surveillance and Research in Ireland – The Way Ahead?’ was organized by this project and hosted by The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin on Thursday 30th June 2005. A follow on workshop was held in the SAS Radisson Hotel, St. Helens, Stillorgan, Dublin 4 on Friday 1st July 2005. The speakers included Professor Sarah O’Brien (University of Manchester) who gave the keynote address titled ‘The epidemiology of human Campylobacter infection – what next’, Mr. Ian Gillespie (HPA) who spoke about ‘The Campylobacter Sentinel Surveillance Scheme’, Dr. Mike Baker (Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand) who presented ‘Campylobacteriosis: A view from ‘down under’, Dr. Frieda Jorgensen (University of Bristol) who discussed ‘Biosecurity and ecological aspects of Campylobacter’, Dr. John Moore (NI PHl) on ‘Campylobacteriosis in humans’ and Dr. Fred Angulo (CDC) on ‘Food based epidemiology’. |
