October 26-28, 2008
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
President's Ballroom
Agenda
| Sunday, October 26, 2008 | |
| 2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. | Registration and Poster Setup |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Welcome and Introductions |
| 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Scientific Session 1: Technologies To Capture Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) Moderator: Paul Wanger, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH Development of a Membrane Microfilter Device for Capture and Characterization of CTCs in Blood Development of an RNA Sensor Platform for Detection of CTCs Isolation of Rare Cells From Whole Blood Using Microfluidics Performance Characteristics of a New CTC Enrichment Method Using a Negative Selection Strategy |
| 5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | Break |
| 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. | Keynote Address: When Quality Matters Most: Driving Innovative Research and Develoment Through Emerging Paradigms in Biospecimen Science and Utilization Carolyn C. Compton, M.D., Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. | Prospects and Possibilities Funding Opportunities and Strategies for Moving Your Research Forward Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparaties and IMAT: Fostering Collaborations, Exploring Synergies and Reducing Cancer Health Disparities The Biospecimen Research Network: A Resource For Technology Development |
| Monday, October 27, 2008 | |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Keynote Address: Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Approaches for the Discovery of Disease Biomarkers for Lymphoma Megan S. Lim, M.D., Ph.D. University of Michigan |
| 8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Scientific Session II: New Technologies for Sample Preparation Moderator: Lynn R. Sorbara, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH High Resolution Karyotype Analysis of Single Cells Using BAC-FISH Assays Magnetically Patterned Co-Cultures for Cancer Studies Microfluidic Channels for High-Density, High-Performance Culture Assays Sample Preparation Methods for Microvessel Analysis in Tumors |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Scientific Session III: New Technologies for Genomic Analysis Moderator: Jay N. Choudry National Cancer Institute, NIH Interaction-Specific Network Perturbation of Disease Proteins Impact of q-RT-PCR Analytical Methods on a Multicenter Biomarker Trial in Colorectal Cancer Sequence Enrichment Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics Novel Biomarkers for Assessing Epigenetic Instability and Risk of Head and Neck Cancer |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | Lunch and Posters |
| 1:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Scientific Session IV: New Molecular Tools Moderator: J. Randy Knowlton, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH Digital Transcriptome Subtraction To Discover New Human Tumor Viruses Going After the “Sweet Spot” in Selecting Aptamers for Glycoproteins Real-Time PCR Quantification of Precursor and Mature MicroRNAs as a Means To Study Posttranscriptional Regulation of MicroRNAs One-Step Synthesis of Biofunctionalized Quantum Dots Using DNA Ligands |
| 4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Break |
| 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Keynote Address: Microchannel Resonators for Single Cell Analysis Scott Manalis, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session and Reception |
| 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Special Session: Successful Commercialization of a New Biotechnology Biomolecular Analysis Using Liquid Crystals Commercializing a Disruptive Technology Douglas Crawford, Ph.D. Technology Transfer: A Tool to Advance Scientific Research for IMAT Researchers |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | |
| Special Joint Session With Clinical Proteomics Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) Annual Meeting | |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast, Registration, and CPTC Poster Setup |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 8:10 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Keynote Address: Genomic Variation and Disease David Altsuler, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Genetics and Medicine Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Director Program in Medical and Population Genetics Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| 8:50 a.m. - 12 noon | Special CPTC-IMAT Joint Session: Fostering Collaborative Efforts Co-Moderators: Chris Kinsinger, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH J. Randy Knowlton, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 8:50 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | CPTC Antibody Characterization Pipeline—Grand Opening Tara Hiltke, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 9:15 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. | Technology To Optimize SCFVs for Targeting Therapeutics Mark J. Federspiel, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic |
| 9:40 a.m. - 10:05 a.m. | Incorporating IMAT-Developed Technology Into Another NCI Program Paul Tempst, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 10:05 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | An Integrated Programmatic Environment To Support In-Depth Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics Profiling and Studies of Gas Phase Chemistry of Peptides and Phosphopeptides Katheryn Resing, Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. | Performance and Optimization of LC-MS/MS Platforms for Proteomic Analyses: An Interlaboratory Study Daniel C. Liebler, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University |
| 11:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. | Nanoscaled Detection of the Disease Proteome Nicolas J. Wang, Ph.D. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:35 a.m. - 12 noon | Verification of Candidate Protein Biomarkers: Reproducibility of MRM-Based Assays Steven Hall, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco |
| 12 noon - 1:30 p.m. | Joint Networking and Poster Session (with Lunch) |
| 1:30 p.m. | IMAT Meeting Adjournment |
| IMAT attendees are welcome to stay and attend the CPTC meeting. For more information on the CPTC meeting, please go to: http://www.capconcorp.com/meeting/proteomic2008/. For more information on the CPTC program, please go to: http://proteomics.cancer.gov/. |
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