OMIG News

Future meetings

'OMIG does 'omics': a residential meeting at Gregynog Hall, Wales 10-12 November 2010

Symposia the BSDR Sheffield 2011 and PEF Helsinki 2012

Watch this space for details.

Election of new members of the Management Committee

We welcome Dr Shauna Culshaw (Dental School, University of Glasgow), Dr John Taylor (School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University) and Louise Belfield (University of Plymouth) who have been elected to the OMIG Committee under the the clinical, non-clinical immunology and postgraduate constituencies respectively.

Newsletter

Jon Pratten has produced a newsletter which will be e-mailed to members; please let him have any items of interest (jobs, good news about members etc) for future issues. Also, print it out and display it on your notice boards! Contact Jon at: j.pratten@eastman.ucl.ac.uk

The newsletter is available here.

OMIG Symposium BSDR Glasgow 2009

Our Symposium at the the recent BSDR 'The oral microbiotoca and the link with systemic disease' seemed to stimulate a lot of interest!

The committee would once again like to thank the speakers for their efforts; all of the talks were of a very high standard. Also, thanks must go to Johnson and Johnson for sponsoring the symposium and organizing the advertising of the meeting. The booklets with biographies and abstracts which were produced and available to those who attended were certainly well received. Thank you everyone!

January Symposium Unilever, Port Sunlight

The first OMIG workshop of 2009 was held at Unilever Research and Development at Port Sunlight on the Wirral. The meeting, entitled “Natural and Applied Control of Oral Health”, attracted over 50 OMIG members from both the academic and industrial communities, in addition to around 20 participants from Unilever. A full report of proceedings can be found here.

All the presentations were of a very high standard and stimulated a lot of discussion, helped no doubt by a trip to La Cubinata on the first evening, a Cuban restaurant in Liverpool where delegates had a chance to get together informally and of course, enjoy the fine Cuban food and dance along to the rhythms of the house band!

This was an excellent workshop- many thanks to the organisers for making the workshop such a success.

Previous news items are available at the News Archive.

Mission Statement

The mouth is home to a complex microflora in dynamic interaction with the host immune response. Investigation of this ecosystem is not only the realm of microbiologists interested in oral microorganisms and biofilm formation but also immunologists who study mucosal immunity as well as oral biologists and clinicians keen to understand the fundamental determinants of oral health and disease.

The aim of the Oral Microbiology and Immunology Group is to provide a forum to promote interest and research in these important areas of biology and biomedical science. We hold regular meetings of our own and arrange symposia at meetings of the British Society for Dental Research. We communicate via our mailbase discussion list and have close associations with other research groups such as the Biofilm Club.

OMIG is a research group of the BSDR