Conference organization

Methylglyoxal and glyoxalase conferences (unique to this investigator)

1. Organizer, two-day international symposium on “The Glyoxalase System”, London, 18-19th December 1992.

2. Organizer, Colloquium on “The enzymatic defence against glycation in health, disease and therapeutics”, as part of the 679^th Biochemical Society Meeting ‘Stress Signalling & Control”, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K., 2^nd – 4^th July, 2003. 

3. Glyoxalase Centennial – 100 years of glyoxalase research and emergence of dicarbonyl stress (with Dr Naila Rabbani), University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 27^th – 29^th November 2013.

4. 14^th International Symposium on the Maillard Reaction (IMARS-14) – Glycation in food, health and disease, hybrid live in Doha, Qatar, and on-line, 20^th – 24^th September 2021.

Other conferences

1. Member of organising committee, International Symposium on Glycation, Jena, Germany, 12^th – 14^th May 2000.

2. Member of paper reviewing committee, 7^th International Symposium on the Maillard Reaction, Kumamoto, Japan, 29^th October 1^st November 2001.

3. Member of Organising committee, 2^nd Symposium on Advanced Glycation End-Products (AGEs), Jena, Germany 9^th – 11^th May 2003.

4. Organiser (with Prof Christine Foyer), Aging and Oxidants in Animals and Plants, Society for Experimental Biology, Glasgow, April 2007.

5. Organiser, Expert Meeting in Thiamine therapy in Diabetic Complications, Rome, Italy, 7^th – 11^th September 2008

6. International Maillard Reaction Symposium, Cairns, Australia – with international other co-organisers, September 2009.

7. EPSRC Medical Systems Biology – with co-organisers Tony Shmygol (WMS) and Hugo van den Berg (WSB), University of Warwick, 15^th – 16^th December 2009.

8. Organiser (with Dr Naila Rabbani), Glycation symposium, 12^th International Congress on Amino Acids, Peptides and Protein, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, 1^st – 5^th August 2011.

9. Centennial International Maillard Reaction Symposium, Nancy, France – with international other co-organisers, 16^th – 20^th September 2012.

10. 12^th International Maillard Reaction Symposium, Tokyo, Japan – with international other co-organisers, 1^st – 4^th September 2015.

11. Proteomics and related metabolomics of oxidative damage and glycation: Technical workshop, University of Warwick, 9^th – 11^th July 2018.

12. 13^th International Maillard Reaction Symposium, Montreal, Canada – with international other co-organisers, 10^th – 13^th September 2018.

13. 14^th International Symposium on the Maillard Reaction (IMARS-14) – Glycation in food, health and disease, hybrid live in Doha, Qatar, and on-line, 20^th – 24^th September 2021.

14. European Association for the study of Diabetes (EASD) Reactive Metabolites Study Group, 4^th October 2018, Berlin, Germany. 

15. Glyco25 – 25^th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Milan, Italy, 25^th – 31^st August 2019

16. European Association for the study of Diabetes (EASD) Reactive Metabolites Study Group, 18^th September 2019, Barcelona, Spain. 

17. Mathematical metabolic modelling – towards intrinsic prediction of risk of developing insulin resistance and diabetic vascular complications. EASD Reactive Metabolites Study Group (RMSG) Symposium, 56th EASD Annual Meeting, 23^rd September 2020.

18. Member of Steering Committee, Functional Genomics 2020, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar, 5^th – 6^th December 2020.

19. Symposium on Emerging diagnostics, repurposed therapeutics and prophylactics for COVID-19, World Innovation Summit in Health 2020 (WISH2020), on-line.

20. Symposium on Reactive metabolites and increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease in obesity and diabetes. EASD Reactive Metabolites Study Group (RMSG) Symposium, 57^th EASD Annual Meeting, 28^th September 2021.

21. Symposium on Insulin resistance – new insights and nutritional approaches to therapy. EASD Reactive Metabolites Study Group (RMSG) Symposium, 58^th EASD Annual Meeting, 20^th September 2022.
    
22. 15^th International Symposium on the Maillard Reaction (IMARS-15) – Glycation in food, health and disease. Maastricht, The Netherlands. 16^th – 19^th September 2024