Biotechnology Research Institute -

Montreal Microarray Symposium - 5^th Edition

Preliminary Program (PDF)

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Date: October 12-13^th, 2006
Location: Biotechnology Research Institute
National Research Council Canada(NRCC)
6100 Royalmount Avenue
Montreal (Quebec) H4P 2R2

BRI will once again be hosting a two-day event that will give researchers involved in various aspects of microarrays an opportunity to meet and discuss ideas, results and strategies. Invited speakers from academia, government and industry will present their current research and successful applications of microarray technology. Guests will also have the opportunity to tour the BRI MicroArray Lab.

Topics:

Expression profiling
Cancer targets
Bioinformatics and instrumentation
Data validation
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP-chip)
Protein microarrays
Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip
Host-pathogen interactions
Poster session… and the opportunity for the authors of the two best abstracts to present their results.

Confirmed Speakers include:

Keynote presentations by:

Rhoderick Jensen,
University of Massachusetts
Shotgun Microarrays: High-throughput Validation of Gene Expression Changes Using Multiple Platforms

Christopher Adams - Invitrogen Corporation
          Global changes in microRNA expression during human embryonic
          stem cell differentiation
Laura Brown - NRC-IMB
          Fish Get Sick Too: Arrays for Host-Pathogen Research
Sam Dougaparsad - Beckman Coulter Company
          High-throughput gene expression analysis via multiplex PCR
Roderick Jensen - University of Massachusetts
          Shotgun Microarrays: High-throughput Validation
          of Gene Expression Changes Using Multiple Platforms
Tae Hoon Kim - University of California at San Diego
          Locating genetic switches in the genome.
Anne Lenferink - NRC-BRI
          Secreted Clusterin mediates TGF-ß promotion of epithelial cell plasticity
Jacek Majewski - McGill University and Affymetrix
          Using the Affymetrix Exon Array to investigate variation in alternative
          splicing in a human population
Luke Masson - NRC-IRB
          Monitoring Biopesticide-Insect Interactions Using DNA Microarrays
Mathieu Miron - Génome Québec
          FlexArray – A DNA microarray data analysis software made with life
          scientists in mind.
Rini Mukherjee Saxena - Agilent Technologies
          Genome tiling microarrays for studying DNA-protein interactions and
          epigenetics
Andre Nantel - NRC-IRB
          Application of Reverse Phase Protein Arrays for the validation
          of blood biomarkers
John C. Newman - University of Washington
          Unraveling complex disease through comparative gene expression
          analysis with L2L
Greg Finak - McGill University
          Expression profiling of the breast tumor microenvironment
William H Robinson - Stanford University
          Proteomic and lipidomic characterization of autoimmune
          demyelinating disease
Michael Whitfield - Dartmouth University
          Distinct and overlapping subsets in the gene expression
          patterns of scleroderma skin
Neil Winegarden - University Health Network
          Functional genomics: Upstream, downstream and in-between
Julia Zeitlinger - Whitehead Institute
          Activated signal transduction kinases frequently occupy target genes
Jim Zoval - UC-Irvine
          Centrifugal "CD" microfluidic platform for automated nucleic acid analysis