Track Descriptions
Assay Development and Screening
Advances in novel and physiologically relevant assay technologies remain the main drivers for the success of screening campaigns as they shape and evolve screening strategies and assay repertoire. This track will focus on recent assay innovations across the field including applications of new instrumentation and hardware, will review approaches to and availability of collections for chemical and RNAi screening with emphasis on follow up studies relating to "hit to lead optimization" and "cellular pathway analyses", and conclude with an overall review of the informatics for screening data acquisition, storage and analysis. Topics include:
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High-Throughput Technologies
This track focuses on the innovative tools, technologies, and techniques that enable automated and/or high-throughput activities that improve laboratory processes, shorten operational cycle times, or enhance data quality/relevance. Emphasis is placed on advancements in engineering, analytical, informatics, and biological technologies and their application to cutting edge automation-assisted research. Topics include:
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Drug Target Biology
Drug discovery relies on a continually deeper and detailed understanding of the mechanisms underlying disease states. This track will focus on studies aimed at advancing our understanding of traditional and novel drug targets as well efforts to apply such knowledge to translational medicine. Topics include:
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Micro- and Nanotechnologies
This track broadly encompasses new and emerging technologies including microfluidics, microarrays, microreactors, nanodevices, and nanotechnologies with emphasis on methods and materials applicable to high-throughput chemistry, biology and clinical analysis. Topics include:
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Bioanalytical Techniques
The quantitative determination of compounds in biological matricies is an important component of pharmaceutical analysis, clinical chemistry, food safety and forensics. Session topics include the latest sampling and separation technologies as well as integrated detection techniques such as mass spectrometry, molecular and functional imaging, and other label-free methods. Topics include:
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Informatics
Modern laboratories across all industries generate and utilize data from an ever growing number of sources with an increasing level of complexity. Accordingly, informatics plays a critical and growing role in the warehousing, visualization, and analysis of these data. This track will showcase the role of informatics in generating testable hypotheses and advancing scientific discoveries. Topics include:
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Diagnostics
New diagnostic methods are making it possible to understand and detect disease states at earlier stages than before and to better predict and/or monitor the efficacy of pharmaceuticals. This track will focus on new and emerging fields such as molecular diagnostics, biomarker analysis, next-generation sequencing, point-of-care detection, and the technologies that enable these fields. Topics include:
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