This year’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research conference is being jointly organised with the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research. Get Connected 3: Immuno Matrix, is focused on the role of the cell matrix in inflammation and immune system, and will be held from 11th to 13th September 2013 in the Michael Smith building at the University of Manchester.

The Conference aims to provide a forum for young scientists from across Europe to present their research stories to an international audience. We will select the best abstracts for short talks and will also have two poster sessions. There will be 21 short talk slots, so approximately a fifth of the abstracts received will be chosen for an oral presentation. We also have a great list of invited speakers including Anna Blom (Lund), Tony Day (Manchester), Richard Grencis (Manchester), Thomas Krieg (Cologne), Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini (Toulouse), Liliana Schaefer (Frankfurt) and Dylan Edwards (UEA, Norwich).

The session topics are:
• ECM in Immune Homeostasis and Wound Healing
• Role of the ECM in Leukocyte Migration
• Gut Matrix and Inflammation
• ECM in Inflammatory Disease
• MMPs in Health and Disease
• Cell Matrix Signalling
• ECM-Innate immune system cross talk

For further information visit
http://www.wellcome-matrix.org/home/centre-conference.html

Early bird registration costs just £95 for the conference and this will be available until 19TH JULY 2013. Accommodation is available at the special conference rate of £118 for 2 nights bed and breakfast.

To register visit: https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=96

Alex & Amy
Get Connected 3: Immuno Matrix organisers
Email: GetConnected [at] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk

Alex Langford-Smith
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research
University of Manchester

Amy Saunders
Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research
University of Manchester