Tuesday 24 May 2011

Registration and Call for Abstracts SSHB Symposium 'The Human Biology of Jim Tanner' 13th-15th December 2011

Dear Biosocial Society Members

See below and attached the announcement for a symposium that may interest you

Best regards

Inês

 

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Dr. Maria Inês Varela-Silva

Chair of The Biosocial Society

Loughborough University (SSEHS)

Centre for Global Health and Human Development

Brockington Extension, 2nd floor, Loughborough, LE11 3TU - UK

email: M.I.O.Varela-Silva@lboro.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1509 228164

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Registration for the 2011 symposium of the SSHB is now open,  further details and registration forms are available at:

http://www.sshb.org/SSHB/Future_Meetings.html

 

 

The Society for the Study of Human Biology is pleased to announce the themes and call for abstracts for our

2011 symposium which is to honour the life and work of JM Tanner.

 

'The Human Biology of Jim Tanner'

13th-15th December 2011

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

Keynote Speakers:

David Barker, University of Southampton

Noël Cameron, Loughborough University

Tim Cole, Institute of Child Health

Peter Ellison, Harvard University

Daniel Hoffman, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

John Komlos, University of Munich

Michelle Lampl, Emory University

Helen Liversidge, Queen Mary, University of London

Robert Malina, Tarlton State University

Lawrence Schell, University at Albany, SUNY

Babette Zemel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

 

The four themes of the programme are:

The Biology of Growth; Assessing Growth; Worldwide Variation in Growth; and Growth and Health.

 

Proffered papers for oral or poster presentations relating to the symposium themes are welcome

 

Abstract guidelines are on the attached proforma, and can be submitted to Dr Laura Jones (laura.jones@nottingham.ac.uk).

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30th June 2011

 

 

Symposium organising committee:

Emily Rousham, Noël Cameron, Laura Jones and Rie Goto

 

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