“"The level of ophthalmology in China is surprisingly high. In fact, the level of medicine as a whole in China is high."” -Dr. David Klein - US Opthalmologist
Target Audience: 200 Total Speaker Presentations: 30 Total Poster Presentations: 20 Total Exhibit Booths: 20
Topics or Highlights of the Meeting:
MicroRNAs Discovery and Biogenesis MicroRNAs in Development Bioinformatics of miRNAs MicroRNAs in Virology & Diagnostics MicroRNAs in Stem Cell Biology MicroRNAs in Disease Biology
AGENDA/SPEAKERS
Thursday, November 3, 2008 7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open 7:30 – 8:45 A.M: Continental breakfast 8:00 - 9:30 A.M: Technology Session I (consists of 3 lectures)
Friday, November 4, 2008 7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open 7:30 – 8:45 A.M: Continental breakfast 8:00 - 9:30 A.M: Technology Session II (consists of 3 lectures) Scientific Sessions Start at 9:30 A.M and Ends at 6.00 P.M on all two days.
Confirmed Speakers:
Inaugural Speaker & Lifetime Achievement Awardee: Prof. Sir John Walker, D.Phil., FRS Chemistry Nobel Laureate1997 MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit , Cambridge, CB2 0XY, United Kingdom Title: TBA
Keynote Speaker & MicroRNAs Innovator Awardee of 2008
Prof. Carlo M. Croce, MD. Chair and Professor College of Medicine and Public Health Ohio State University, Columbus,OH. USA Title: MicroRNAs in Cancer
Industry Keynote speaker Keith G. McCullagh, PhD. President & CEO Santaris Pharma, Horshol, Denmark Title: TBA
David C. Baulcombe, PhD., FRS. Professor of Botany & Royal Society Research Professor University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Title: Short silencing RNA in plants
Thomas Thum, MD. Julius-Maximilians-University & University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Title: MicroRNAs in human end-stage heart failure
Mark A. Lindsay, PhD. Reader in Biopharmaceutics National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College, London, UK Title: MiRNAs in inflammation and lung disease
Dónal O'Carroll Ph.D. Group Leader EMBL Monterotondo Mouse Biology Unit Monterotondo Scalo, Italy Title: TBA
Markus Stoffel, MD, PhD. Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, Zürich, Switzerland Title: TBA
Dr F. Gregory Wulczyn Professor Institute for Cell and Neurobiology Centrum for Anatomy Charité – Universit?tsmedizin Berlin, Germany Title: TBA
Iain Russell, PhD. Applied Biosystems, Inc., Foster City, CA, USA Title: TBA
Simon Mauch, PhD. Global Marketing Team Manager Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Title: TBA
Christoph Eicken, PhD. Head of Technical Services, Microarrays LC Sciences, LLC., Houston, TX, USA Title: TBA
Manuel A. S. Santos, PhD. Associated Professor in Molecular Biology Department of Biology University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Exhibitors are welcome to reserve their booth space early!
Please contact if you are interested in speaking in the scientific or Technology workshops of this meeting.
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