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Agenda At-a-Glance
Agenda At-a-Glance
Monday, October 20, 2008
| 7:30 am | Registration and Morning Coffee | ||
| Pre-Conference Workshops | |||
| 8:20 am - 11:30 am | Workshop A: Meeting High Throughput Microarray Challenges | Workshop B: In Silico Biomarker Validation | Workshop C: Automated Sample Preparation Methods |
| Main Conference | |||
| Sequencing & Detection Technologies | Molecular Diagnostics | Biomarkers | |
| 12:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Short RNA Prediction and Detection | Diagnostics Regulatory Dynamics | Biomarkers: Discovery, Validation & Efficacy |
| Keynote Presentation Evidence of Expanded Regulatory Activity for Animal microRNAs Isidore Rigoutsos, Ph.D., Manager, Bioinformatics & Pattern Disc. Group, Comp. Biology Center, Deep Computing Institute, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center | Keynote Presentation Regulation of Emerging Diagnostics Richard Naples, Vice President, Corporate Regulatory Affairs, BD Medical - Pharmaceutical Systems | Keynote Presentation Application of Biomarkers for Early Decision Making and Patient Selection Scott Patterson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Medical Sciences, Amgen | |
| 2:20 pm | Technology Workshops Sponsored by: Illumina, Inc. and Whatman, Inc. | ||
| 3:00 pm | Networking Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30 pm - 5:20 pm | Assay Development | Point-of-Care Diagnostics | miRNA Biomarkers Keynote Presentation miRNA Expression in Stem Cells Mahendra Rao, MD, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Invitrogen Corporation |
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Exhibit/Poster Hall Hours: 9:50 am - 6:30 pm
| 7:30 am | Registration and Morning Coffee | ||
| 8:00 am - 9:50 am | Genomic Variation | Global Molecular Diagnostics | Integrating Systems Biology into Biomarker Discovery |
| Keynote Presentation Assessing Genetic Risk Factors for Common Human Diseases Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., Co-founder and CSO, Navigenics, Director & Senior Investigator, Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute | Keynote Presentation Democratizing Molecular Diagnostics: the Challenge of Implementing New Technology David Persing, MD, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Medical and Technology Officer, Cepheid | Keynote Presentation Global Reconstruction of the Human Metabolic Network based on Genomic and Bibliomic Data Bernhard Palsson, Ph.D., Galetti Professor of Bioengineering and Adjunct Professor Medicine, University of California at San Diego | |
| 9:50 am | Networking Coffee Break and Opening of Exhibit/Poster Hall | ||
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Next Generation Sequencing | Molecular Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases Keynote Presentation Chips, SNPs, and Microbial Attribution Eugene LeClerc, Ph.D., Director, Division of Molecular Biology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration | Imaging Biomarkers |
| 11:30 am | Technology Workshop Sponsored by: Illumina, Inc. and NuGEN Inc. | ||
| 12:00 noon | Networking Luncheon, Exhibit, Poster Viewing, and Exhibit Hall presentation sponsored by ThermoFisher Scientific and Fluorous Technologies, Inc. from 12:45-1:15 | ||
| 1:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Next Generation Sequencing (continued) | Novel Microarray Applications in Molecular Diagnostics | Functional Analysis of Potential Biomarkers |
| 2:30 pm | Networking Coffee Break, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | ||
| 3:15 pm | Technology Workshop Sponsored by: Agencourt Bioscience Corp. and Roche Applied Science | ||
| 3:55 pm - 5:20 pm | Next Generation Sequencing (continued) | Strategies for Synchronizing Companion Diagnostics Development with Drug Development | Metabolomic Biomarkers |
| 5:30 pm | Networking Cocktail Reception in Exhibit and Poster Hall / Poster Competition Winner Announcement | ||
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Exhibit/Poster Hall Hours: 9:35 am - 4:00 pm
| 8:00 am - 9:35 am | Commercialization of Microarrays for Diagnostic and Personalized Genetics Applications | Proteomic Biomarkers | |
| 9:35 am | Networking Coffee Break, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | ||
| 10:30 am - 12:00 am | Technology Standards | Pathways to Biomarker and Diagnostics Reimbursement | |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Technology Workshop Sponsored by: Applied Biosciences, Inc. | ||
| 12:10 pm | Networking Luncheon, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | ||
| 1:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Emerging Technologies | Pathways to Biomarker and Diagnostics Reimbursement (continued) | |
| 2:30 pm | Networking Coffee Break, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | ||
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Novel Technologies and Arrays | Molecular Diagnostics Nearing the Clinic | Extending RNAi into Therapeutics |
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