IOP Groups

One Day Conference - 19 May 2005

One day conference on Electric Fields and Discharges for Microbiology and Health Care Applications

19 May 2005, Institute of Physics, London

Electric fields and discharges have long been known to influence many aspects of cell and micro-organism physiology, metabolism and viability. Today, multidisciplinary research is widely undertaken by scientists from many disciplines seeking to manipulate cells, understand their responses to fields and discharges, and to disinfect the air, surfaces, food stuffs and fluids from micro-organisms. The Electrostatics Group of the Institute of Physics is hosting a meeting to bring together interested parties from academia, industry and health care to communicate recent progress in this field and discuss its implications to future applications. The meeting will include discussion of research into pulsed electric fields for both sterilisation applications and cell manipulation, and the use of ionisation for sterilisation and infection control.

Confirmed speakers:

• Prof Scott MacGregor (Strathclyde University)
• Dr Clive Beggs (The University of Leeds)
• Dr Janet Allen (H.H.Wills Physics Laboratory)
• Dr George Chen (University of Southampton)
• Mr Julian Laws (Air Ion Technologies, UK)

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