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UK ME/CFS Research Collaborative (CMRC) Annual Science Conference 2016

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AndyPR

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The third UK ME/CFS Research Collaborative (CMRC) Annual Science Conference is taking place on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September 2016. To facilitate travel for speakers and visitors, the venue is the 3-star Novotel at Newcastle Airport, the same venue as 2015.

Download the latest 2016 CMRC conference programme (pdf).

While the full conference is primarily for researchers, other people – ME patients, their families, or members of the general public – are welcome to become associate members of the Collaborative, and thereafter apply for tickets to attend the associate members session on Wednesday 28th September. The aim of this associate members session is to enhance engagement between researchers and patients, and the format is likely to be similar to the highly successful workshop sessions during the CMRC conferences in 2014 and 2015. Registration details can be found here (read more).

Confirmed speakers, who have all benefitted funding from ME Research UK in the past, include:

  • Dr David Patrick, University of British Columbia, Canada (read more)
  • Dr Sarah Knight, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia (read more)
  • Prof David Jones, Newcastle University, UK (read more)
  • Dr Jessica Van Oosterwijck, University of Antwerp (read more)
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http://www.meresearch.org.uk/news/cmrc-conference-2016/
 
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From AfME Facebook page
Tomorrow marks the first day of the third annual CMRC conference, which will be held on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 September 2016 at the Novotel, Newcastle Airport.

Our plan is to livestream as many of the research presentations as we can but please note not all researchers will consent to having their presentations streamed on the day. This is because some presentations contain research that has not yet been published.

You can watch the livestream starting from 9.30am on Wednesday 28 via the Action for M.E. USTREAM page at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/w9gF6Ps3Nkd

Recordings of the livestream will be uploaded to our YouTube channel at a later date. In the event of technical problems stopping us from livestreaming, we will record the presentations and upload them to YouTube instead.

Action for M.E. is not able to provide technical support to individuals who experience problems connecting to USTREAM on the day.
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Today's programme, livestreaming from 9.30am here

all times are GMT +1 hour​

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Not much to see after lunch - looks like nothing til 4:30pm
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Stephen Holgate reports Francis Collins, NIH Director, flagged up recent PNAS mecfs metabolomics paper as an example of the value of metabolomics (via Dr Rick Dunn, part of the MEGA project, who was at the washington meet with Collins)
 
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Cheshire said:
Can someone confirm? Stephen Holdgate said the MEGA study will use "broad criteria".
As Crawley is involved in this that wouldn't be a surprise, unfortunately...
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We probably have something even less rigorous than Oxford criteria to look forward to. It takes effort to recruit actual ME patients since they struggle to make it to clinics, or can't make it at all.
 
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Current guy is interesting - wish I'd seen it from the beginning. He's talking about using an existing cohort to test Naviaux's metabolomics and seeing if it's the result of inactivity or disease (pre vs post, case vs control) but I didn't follow his logic there, since both inactivity and disease would go hand-in-hand, timewise.
 
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Damn - clicked the link again and it's taken me to the beginning of Dr Patrick and I'd like to see the live feed. Can anyone help?
 
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