The upcoming event addresses to those scientists wanting to keep themselves updated with the recent advances in minicircle technology and its application in DNA vaccination and gene therapy
The first international minicircle-DNA workshop is to be held on 21-23 February 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany.
Minicircles are small DNA circles that are derived by recombination of parental plasmids.
Minicircles are devoid of the bacterial backbone and contain only the gene of interest making them promising tools for DNA vaccination and gene therapy.
Antibiotic resistance genes, selection markers or bacterial origins of replication, which are typically present in plasmids are fully removed by the specific recombination.
The list of confirmed speakers is available on the PlasmidFactory website and includes renowned experts such as Daniel Schermann, Paris.
