UK CMRC 2018 Conference held September 19 & 20 at Bristol

I a going to EUROMENE this coming week but not CMRC.

The programme looks to me about the best selection of what is going on in the UK and a bit of elsewhere you could do. The ME Biobank people at LSHTM are getting plenty of space. Newcastle and the UK Biobank are presenting and Chris Ponting is doing a workshop. I have to say my rating of Parent dropped seriously on seeing the referee report he produced that was quoted on a thread recently. It seems he believes in BPS and is prepared to use it to elbow other ideas out. That should no longer be on the agenda.

 

Is that predictive text? Apparently Word used to autocorrect 'Norman Tebbit' to 'Normal Teabag'.

 

@Adrian are you still thinking of going?

 

@Jonathan Edwards, do you mean Ponting when you wrote Parent above? Thank you.

 

Carmine Pariente

 

Thanks @Dolphin I realised that when looked at the previous page and makes much more sense!

 

My guess would be that he meant Piarente (sp?) and it was autocorrected to Parent.

 

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Full program now up

 

I've also heard they're very good.

 

Pariante has two slots.

 

Broadly speaking I'd say it looks a lot better than previous years. Still don't trust Harrison or Pariante's research though.

 

The new USA researcher beginning with D doesn’t seem to be coming now. There isn’t a big American name

I obviously have my frustration at the GB establishment way which means i see It as cobbling together mainly the best of British, filling in with talks again about pharmacy, big data, funding etc which haven’t changed much year on year so far. I don’t know how energising/ inspirational it will be and Karl Morten is not speaking himself for his research which is a shame.

 

We need to learn from them more than vice versa though.

 

Yes thanks. He originally was named wasn’t he?

 

Noticeable is that only 10 (out of 22) presentations, judged by title alone, are looking at biological processes of ME (and that includes some Harrison and Pariante presentations which, as I've said, I'm dubious about).

While it does look much improved, it's obvious that not much progress was made in the last 5 years - hopefully Chris Ponting can be the catalyst to push hard down on the accelerator.

 

Hopefully we will get relevant feedback from @dave30th.

Last year, most of the presentations were available fairly quickly to watch.